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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Bombay Chutney on December 30, 2003, 10:58:00 am
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So what kind of cool stuff did everyone get for Xmas? We kept things pretty low-key this year. Mostly music, dvds and games. My favorite present was this box set:
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I didn't get jack squat. I'm santa. I gave a ton of shit. (I got a fruitbasket from a grateful employer...does it count?)
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
I didn't get jack squat. I'm santa. I gave a ton of shit. (I got a fruitbasket from a grateful employer...does it count?)
It depends on what was in the basket. :)
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Fruit...and only one grapefruit at that!
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Fruit...and only one grapefruit at that!
When you said fruit in a basket I immediately assumed Rhett had given himself to you in a very original way....and that your wishes had finally come true.
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I got a new turntable and some vinyl.
A new sleeping bag.
Two sweaters.
Several books.
A pair of Thorlos.
and a bag of kind bud.
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Originally posted by mankie:
When you said fruit in a basket I immediately assumed Rhett had given himself to you in a very original way....and that your wishes had finally come true.
Well there was one
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Halle Berry,
but knowing you mank
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you would've prefered a Halle Barry White
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This wasn't from the G'ma that used to hook you up with a case of beer was it?
Originally posted by ggw™:
and a bag of kind bud.
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
This wasn't from the G'ma that used to hook you up with a case of beer was it?
No. The OG'ma went to the great gig in the sky a few years back.
I may swing by the cemetery this weekend and pour a forty over her grave.
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i got one of those, plus several cds with the universal gift certificate...
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"south side" neighborhoodie. all other gifts blown away
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
My favorite present was this box set:
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DD539.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
I got that too...... Its a bit odd isnt it? Is boys dont cry punk? Or Joe Jackson?
Plus have you read the booklet? The writer need to check up on his history.
Still the music is pretty great.
It turned into a Punk Christmas. I got a Sid Vicious doll a clash photo book by Bob Gruen. some fall Cds, the vicious white things CD, featuring Sid on vocals and Glen Matlock on the Bass.
I guess I just bought a new 17'' powerbook and a new car too........... But do Christmas presents to oneself count?
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
I guess I just bought a new 17'' powerbook and a new car too...........
Those don't sound very punk.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I guess I just bought a new 17'' powerbook and a new car too...........
Those don't sound very punk. [/b]
How about having a huge black eye on my drivers license?
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I guess I just bought a new 17'' powerbook and a new car too...........
Those don't sound very punk. [/b]
How about having a huge black eye on my drivers license? [/b]
Only if you were sneering.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
]Only if you were sneering.
No, the photograper had to wait 2 minutes for my sneer to subside.
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
]Only if you were sneering.
No, the photograper had to wait 2 minutes for my sneer to subside. [/b]
How'd you get a black eye?
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errrrrrrr.
Mankie hit me at the Christmas party, did you not hear?
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Mankie hit me at the Christmas party, did you not hear?
You got beat up by an old man?
That's sooooo not punk......
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It sure got black awfully quick then.
I would have thought it would have been me that Mankie would have hit, but he was a perfect gentleman. Maybe he got the violence out of his system before I arrived.
Originally posted by mark e smith:
errrrrrrr.
Mankie hit me at the Christmas party, did you not hear?
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Did no one notice Mankies hand all bandaged up? The bastard sucker-punched me whilst I was looking the other way.
Never trust a vegetarian fucking-hippie.
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I'm still thinking Lulu got sick of Mark E's smart mouth.
Back to Christmas presents, I got a totally bitchin' chess board, an iPod, a great sweater, and some fantastic CD's.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
This wasn't from the G'ma that used to hook you up with a case of beer was it?
I may swing by the cemetery this weekend and pour a forty over her grave. [/b]
I hope my grandchildren do the same for me somedy....
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Dude, it's a Mac and a Mini -- don't get much more punk than that (in that millennium punk kind of way...)
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I guess I just bought a new 17'' powerbook and a new car too...........
Those don't sound very punk. [/b]
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I thought being punk was reading Fortune magazine and creating bands. Isn't that what McLaren did?
Originally posted by Bagster:
Dude, it's a Mac and a Mini -- don't get much more punk than that (in that millennium punk kind of way...)
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I got:
an Eric Clapton/BB King cd that i already sold back
a sexy black jock strap that I'm told I look good in
2 dress shirts
the book "Moneyball"
a watch
a gift cert for a massage
some sort of gps tracking gadget
some camping gadgets
a book of NASCAR facts
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] It sure got black awfully quick then.
I would have thought it would have been me that Mankie would have hit, but he was a perfect gentleman. Maybe he got the violence out of his system before I arrived.
I would never have punched you in Celeste's presence, because she does seem to always fight your battles and I don't really want to fight her....wrestle? Ooh yeah baby, but not fight! ;)
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
Originally posted by Skeeter:
My favorite present was this box set:
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DD539.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
I got that too...... Its a bit odd isnt it? Is boys dont cry punk? Or Joe Jackson? [/b]
I'd don't know if I'd really call "Boys Don't Cry" punk, but I guess if you consider punk to be the whole DIY, grab a guitar and play your heart out ethic, I could see why it's included. Plus, there's no denying the Cure's image was a bit radical for the late 70's. I would have picked a different Cure song though.
Joe Jackson - yeah - I'd call him a punk back in the day. But again - bad song choice. "One More Time" or "I'm The Man" would fit a little better onto this comp. Maybe they were just trying to show how new-wave started rearing it's ugly head on the scene?
Plus have you read the booklet? The writer need to check up on his history.[/b]
Not yet. I've glanced through it, but that's it.
Still the music is pretty great.[/b]
Absolutely!
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I heard some of that in Video American. Isn't it mainly most of Rhino's previous comps put together in one box set? Have they finally included The Clash?
Mark, I'm curious to find out what you think of the LA Scene.
Originally posted by Skeeter:
My favorite present was this box set:
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DD539.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
I heard some of that in Video American. Isn't it mainly most of Rhino's previous comps put together in one box set? Have they finally included The Clash?
You mean the old DIY series? Yeah - it takes a lot from those discs. If you have those, this isn't a necessary purchase. Those are long out of print though.
And yes, they include The Clash. Only "White Riot" though.
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Yep, the DIY series. I've got most of those. You can still find em in stores every so often. There was always licensing issues with The Clash. I wonder if those issues, you know, ended.
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
So what kind of cool stuff did everyone get for Xmas? We kept things pretty low-key this year. Mostly music, dvds and games. My favorite present was this box set:
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000DD539.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
The Post voted this the best boxset of the year in their year-end wrapup (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43293-2003Dec30.html):
Best Box Set: "No Thanks: The 70s Punk Rebellion"
Punk gets the Rhino treatment on this four-CD set, which skims the curdled cream of the Buzzcocks, the Dead Kennedys, X, the New York Dolls and the Ramones, as well as dozens of others. Neglected greats like Stiff Little Fingers and Johnny Thunders get salutes, and the track-by-track commentary, by Ira Robbins and Dave Schulps, sums up the story and the characters in succinct and colorful detail. Notably absent are the Sex Pistols -- a deal with whoever owns their catalogue never panned out -- but everyone else who matters is present and accounted for, and anyway, as it candidly says in the liner notes, you ought to buy the Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollocks" before you spend more than $60 for this set.
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That's odd, because on one of the UK punk ones they've got Anarchy in the UK and God Save the Queen as demos.
Anybody check out the 3 disc postpunk series Rhino put out?
Originally posted by ggw™:
Notably absent are the Sex Pistols -- a deal with whoever owns their catalogue never panned out
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I got an iPod from mom & dad...rock on...already took it for a spin on the treadmill...yeeehaw!
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Anybody check out the 3 disc postpunk series Rhino put out?
I've seen them, but haven't picked them up. It seems like all the songs I know on them, I already have. I'm curious how the rest of the music holds up. I'm sure they're good, but I haven't felt the need to drop $$$ on them.
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i got a new guitar for Xmas. yipee! i am going to be a rockstar now.
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most notably I got a new leather jacket, and most strange present, I got a box set of books about famous prostitutes...from my mother. I think she's hinting something.
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i got a rock.
just kidding. got some cds and an effects pedal for my bass. :)
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I got a flight simulator
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Two bottles of Hawaiin Punch (Red and Green) and some Simpsons stuff!!! Excellent!!! :)