- Is it draft time yet? I think it's interesting to talk about this weekend's NFL draft. It's fun to speculate what team will draft which player, where a particular player will land and all of the strategic positioning that goes on in the days leading up to the draft. But I have to tell you with three weeks of hype behind us I will be glad to get this over with. I have heard about as much draft talk as I can stand.
- Elizabeth I on HBO. I think that Helen Mirren's performance in HBO's Elizabeth I was some of the best television I have ever seen. I have liked Helen Mirren since 1981 when she was in Excalibur. In Elizabeth she flat out acts her ass off.
- It's official, Phish is overrated! A few years ago I spent a year in Boulder, CO. This was after the Grateful Dead had disbanded after Jerry's passing. Everyone in Boulder had split into two camps either you liked, Widespread Panic or you liked Phish but not both. It was kind of like belonging to a political party you did not associate with the other group. So my friends were WSP fans and they took me to a few shows and I bought a few CD's and I generally got into the whole Panic scene. But I always remained curious about Phish. So when I got Sirius satellite radio last year they have a channel that plays a ton of Phish. So I have been listening to a lot of Phish the past 15 months or so and I know that Trey Anastasio is suppose to be all that and a bag of chips but I just can't get into them. There are some tunes I like but generally I find them to be adolescent and although I know they have a lot of talent I hear a lot of junk from them.
- Funniest joke ever! this is my favorite joke of all time:
Q: What would be an inappropriate gift for Anne Frank?
A: A drumset !
KM
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I got into Phish in 1990. They were unlike anything I'd heard before. Their live shows from 90-92 were pretty outstanding. There is certainly no denying the mastery of their musicianship. All that being said, I agree with you that they are overrated. I can't get into their music because the lyrics are so juvenile--I feel like I'm in a D&D game or something (nothing against D&D, but I haven't played it since I was a kid). Jams, yes; Songs, not really.
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