Category: Legacy

Yes, it is that good. In my market its really a strangely small amount of money for the amount of content you get. So little money that it was really a no brainer to order. Well, not really a no brainer… Juliet had to tell me that I was dumb not to.

I can take comfort in the fact that she’s regretting it now. 5 Hockey games in 4 nights this week. 2 Wild games, alone. And NONE of them were Rangers/Isles/Devils?I don’t think I’d seen two wild games, period. On a related note, these kids are fun to watch. I didn’t see the Twins play this year, but I imagine that the Wild play like the Twins do. Young kids, playing the game because they love it, for people who appreciate them for it. It’s fun.

So other than the tremendous time suck, I have very few complaints. I wish the UI was better, but that’s probably Time Warner specific. It’s up in the ‘seriously digital’ stations, so it takes a couple of seconds to tune each one in. Did I mention I’ve seen 5 games this week?

One of the good guys

I guess I just wish it were like the old days, where I would actually care about moving my guys around or making trades, let alone squinting at the sports news to see who scored, etc.

Sure enough, right there in Section 3 (Religious Freedom), there’s a paragraph that pretty much sums this up:

That no religion shall be established by law; that no preference shall be given by law to any religious sect, society, denomination, or mode of worship; that no one shall be compelled by law to attend any place of worship; nor to pay any tithes, taxes, or other rate for building or repairing any place of worship, or for maintaining any minister or ministry; that no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this state; and that the civil rights, privileges, and capacities of any citizen shall not be in any manner affected by his religious principles.

I can see how they’d mis-read that.

Actually, I probably wouldn’t know because I’ve never been to a game anywhere else, but I’m really tired of New York Sports fans.

ONE game into the season & they’re booing the Rangers. WTF kind of fan is that? And don’t get me started on people walking to their seats in the middle of play. I was at a game last year & this guy wearing a Leafs jersey (gutsy in and of itself) actually yelled at people to sit down. I think I want to move to Toronto.

I took some pictures. The net’s not as distracting as it looks like it would be – for some reason it stands out more in the pictures. While I’m happy to not have to worry about taking one in the head, I sure would’ve liked to have caught a puck. I’m sure they’ll take them down in a year or so.

I thought this was very well put.

I want to buy these guys a beer. I’d be “very uncooperative” too if the police & FBI pulled me over based on the story of some redneck from GA. I hope we remember this, but we won’t.

Well, it’s official. We’ve closed and are now property owners. As Phil says, now we can vote.

Been way too busy w/ closing/moving to do more, but I’ll put some thoughts down soon.

One of the coolest thing about the way this things was set up also set up the “Us vs. Them” mentality that led to the (relatively good natured) conflict. Each band played a half hour set, with bands alternating between two adjacent stages. 30 minutes isn’t very long, and the fact that there was no break between bands kept things moving. By the time NOFX went on, the show had been going on for over 8 hours – I think everyone was happy things moved along quickly.

Highlights included Bad Religion, who in my opinion weren’t nearly near enough the top of this bill, playing at 5:20. Most of these bands owe BR a huge debt, and it seemed that they should be in one of the more prominant spots. They put on a great show, played all the things people wanted to hear, and left saying they were going back to their trailers to get out of the heat – “not like you losers.”

Most of the others we saw were unremarkable. Missed Lagwagon, who I’ve always characterized as a cross between BR & NOFX, but saw an unremarkable set by MXPX. Why bands insist on trying to get people into the pit, or jump around? Just play & STFU – you sound like an idiot. Thursday played at noon, but on the main stage. We weren’t there for that, and I was surprised at the number of Thursday t-shirts on kids.

I’d never seen The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and they put on a really high energy show. I’m not a big ska guy, but it was pretty entertaining. They seem to have one guy whose sole job it is to dance around on stage. Strange. At least they realized that 30 minutes was too little time to chat, and said as much.

Can’t say much about New Found Glory – we’d already decided to move over to the other stage for NOFX, but they seemed like decent stuff.

I’ve also never seen NOFX, which has always struck me as strange. They’ve been around forever, and I’ve been listening to them forever, but they’ve developed such a huge, if underground, following that they only play big places where I’m unlikely to go. Anyway, it was a really good set. Mike had the mood of the crowd as they came on… “we’re not going to do any songs about girls.” Instead they ripped into The Brews just like they would in my dreams. Ironically the show degenerated into a singalong that wouldn’t have been out of place at a Dashboard Confessional show. I was really amazed at how many songs from Punk in Drublic and WTTHAAB they did.

Unfortunately they had to play the same short set as everyone else.

I was impressed at the lack of hassle that the venue presented, especially keeping in mind that it’s an island served only by exits off the highway & no subways. Good bus service & it was easy to get one home, even with everyone leaving at once. I have to say that I was shocked that the whole show was dry, but I suppose it was for the best… 80 degree heat & a bunch of obnoxious (mostly 16 year old) “punks” – just add beer.