azaghal1981
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 04, 2015 at 03:18 PM UTC
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Velvet booking has been on a downward spiral since Snailhook stopped booking it regularly in 2009.
Which is a shame because that stretch between 06 and 09 was amazing for a venue of that size.
azaghal1981
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 04, 2015 at 09:03 PM UTC
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I don't think the Velvet Lounge are even trying to compete for nationally touring acts anymore. So much of what DC9 have been getting in the last few years would end up at Velvet if they put forth some effort.
hutch
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 05, 2015 at 03:41 PM UTC
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that Dear Jerry show looks amazing!
ggw
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 05, 2015 at 03:54 PM UTC
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Hutch wrote:
that Dear Jerry show looks amazing!
bunnyman
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 06, 2015 at 05:50 PM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
I'm older now. That should be enough, for me not to like it.
There is a ton of fluff in social media, but Twitter is incredibly useful. It's not about Tweeting…it's about the substance of what you decide to follow. It's easy to get a rich Twitter feed and absorb information, whether it's news or hobbies. It can be useful at work too. I'll follow everything from Capital Weather Gang to AirFareWatchdog to the AV Club to Yoko Ono to BBC Travel to Matador Records. If you are interested in having a quick way to see what's happening in the world, it's marvelous.
ggw
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 06, 2015 at 06:36 PM UTC
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Yada
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 06, 2015 at 06:56 PM UTC
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bearman wrote:
walkonby wrote:
I'm older now. That should be enough, for me not to like it.
There is a ton of fluff in social media, but Twitter is incredibly useful. It's not about Tweeting…it's about the substance of what you decide to follow. It's easy to get a rich Twitter feed and absorb information, whether it's news or hobbies. It can be useful at work too. I'll follow everything from Capital Weather Gang to AirFareWatchdog to the AV Club to Yoko Ono to BBC Travel to Matador Records. If you are interested in having a quick way to see what's happening in the world, it's marvelous.
I've found it useful along with other social media mediums but then I end up following too much garbage and it loses its usefulness. I need to cleanse my IG and twitter feeds of the random bologna.
bunnyman
Joined: November 19, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 06, 2015 at 07:41 PM UTC
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Yada wrote:
bearman wrote:
walkonby wrote:
I'm older now. That should be enough, for me not to like it.
There is a ton of fluff in social media, but Twitter is incredibly useful. It's not about Tweeting…it's about the substance of what you decide to follow. It's easy to get a rich Twitter feed and absorb information, whether it's news or hobbies. It can be useful at work too. I'll follow everything from Capital Weather Gang to AirFareWatchdog to the AV Club to Yoko Ono to BBC Travel to Matador Records. If you are interested in having a quick way to see what's happening in the world, it's marvelous.
I've found it useful along with other social media mediums but then I end up following too much garbage and it's loses it's usefulness. I need to cleanse my IG and twitter feeds of the random bologna.
It's easy to clean it up. I stopped following Huffington Post because they were totally obnoxious. Anytime someone feels compelled to Tweet the same link to an article more than twice, I deleted them from my Twitter feed. Annoying.
vansmack
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 06, 2015 at 08:51 PM UTC
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Lists people, lists. That for me has become the absolute most effective way to use twitter.
I agree with everything Bearman said about twitter as I rarely tweet, but constantly absorb, except that I have utilized lists to filter my content.
StoneTheCrow
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 09, 2015 at 09:38 PM UTC
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Regarding earlier mid week sets and happy hours at the Black Cat: about time!
Yada
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 09, 2015 at 10:06 PM UTC
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StoneTheCrow wrote:
Regarding earlier mid week sets and happy hours at the Black Cat: about time!
Couldn't be happier about earlier set times!
emmanuel
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 09, 2015 at 10:32 PM UTC
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Sounds good here too! Even on weekends, some headlining shows at 11:30pm is a bit late for me. But when I see 7pm set times at some shows, with driving from Baltimore, that has to be the worst option.
hutch
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 09, 2015 at 10:49 PM UTC
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the later the better for me… i like to help put the kids to bed, have dinner at home…also, the later the show the quicker I can zoom in for the show… also, parking is much harder before a certain hour….its almost all zoned as neighborhood residents parking only until 9 i think…also, i like to have a few beers before i enter the venue ..the earlier the show the harder that is…also, if i have time to kill before 9 i like to go to the record store on the same block: SOM..
but its not much of an issue as they dont' get too many shows I'm interested in….
Jon Spencer coming up in April..
on a related note I recently bought Gray Matter's first LP… one of the labels is actually a picture of a cat.. hilarious to see the picture of Dante… the "thank yous" are like a who's who of DC hardcore royalty…
sweetcell
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 14, 2015 at 02:10 AM UTC
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Sidehatch wrote:
so yes Astrophysics is kind of pushing the envelope on being mathematics…but there is a lot of math in all physics
if you think astrophysics is only kinda-sorta math, you've clearly never studies astrophysics.
Sidehatch
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 14, 2015 at 03:44 AM UTC
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It's pretty much all math…but it's not called mathematics
but your statement is true…I've never even taken the 3-4 classes you would take before AP
Sidehatch
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 18, 2015 at 03:27 PM UTC
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StoneTheCrow wrote:
Regarding earlier mid week sets and happy hours at the Black Cat: about time!
RED ROOM HAPPY HOUR
AT THE BLACK CAT
5pm-7pm
Monday-Friday
Special No Show Happy Hour. Free Jameson with any purchase from 5pm-7pm that's not a bad deal, buy a $4 founders All Day IPA and get a shot of Jameson!
jrpa
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 18, 2015 at 03:29 PM UTC
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To be fair, they don't say how much Jameson.
sweetcell
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 18, 2015 at 03:34 PM UTC
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since we've wandered away from discussing the dropped fly…
RatBastard wrote:
I laugh when I read people blast one browser over another based on such absurd things as security, etc. Every browser has security issues, the biggest of which is the person operating it.
(…)
I despise that scheme that IE uses in the address bar whereas part of the URL is dimmed and the rest is not. That is very difficult to read. Supposedly it highlights the actual domain of the address, and as such protects me form myself. In the end it is just a pain in the ass.
i don't think anyone has mentioned security to date. that's a go-to complaint but as you point out yourself in that second paragraph, there are plenty of other things to hate about IE.
security isn't my biggest gripe with IE. it's how non-standard its interpretation of HTML is. i spend half my day making fixes so that stuff works or looks the same on IE, because IE plays by its own retarded rules.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition
March 20, 2015 at 03:25 AM UTC
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A language warning for Matt & Kim?