muskrat_john ([info]muskrat_john) wrote,
@ 2007-09-12 21:43:00
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LOLdorks
You all know that my pal [info]billzilla is one of the best guys in the universe, right?

And his S.O. [info]replyhazy is another in the short list of My Favorite People, Like, Evar.

Well, their kitty, Buster, is now Number 2 with a bullet on lolcats favorites page.



This may well be the closest I actually ever get to, you know, real fame and stuff. So, for the love of all things holy, HELP MAKE BUSTER THE #1 KITTY on LOLCATS with your rating!

Karma will thank you for it. So may well [info]billzilla, who has a birthday coming up...and [info]replyhazy, who just had one (happy belated, Tracy! I suck. Dim Sum's on me.)

EDIT: BUSTER THE DEMON CAT IS NUMBER ONE! At least for a little while. Can someone get a high-res screenshot of the page, for Bill and Tracy? I can only do them at 72 dpi... Anyhoo, way to REPRESENT, Army of Dorkness!

****

Plus, like, a meme that's actually kind of interesting. Ganked from [info]abbagirl.


Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list.

1. U2 *
2. Indigo Girls *
3. Madonna *
3. Shawn Colvin *
4. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
5. The Boomtown Rats
6. The Jam
7. Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark
8. Elvis Costello
9. Husker Du
10. The Replacements
11. Bob Mould (solo)
12. Wilco
13. Crowded House
14. Midnight Oil
15. The Reivers
16. The Rolling Stones
17. Pink Floyd
18. Genesis
19. Fountains of Wayne
20. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
21. The Eagles
22. Al Stewart
23. Chick Corea
24. Matthew Sweet
25. The dBs

These are just the first 25 that came to mind. Each has an interesting story. Some more so than others.


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[info]autumnsfire
2007-09-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
Went and voted - and that picture is just *awesome*.

Demon kitty for the win!

(Also the picture seems to be #1 right now...)

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 03:25 am UTC (link)
FTW!

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[info]hexar_le_saipe
2007-09-13 04:02 am UTC (link)
That list... wow, I'd have to get rid of everybody except The Stones...

What was I listening to all those years anyway?

/oh yeah, Slayer...

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[info]kshandra
2007-09-13 04:18 am UTC (link)
s/The Stones/Genesis/

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[info]dybbuk67
2007-09-13 04:02 am UTC (link)
Boomtown Rats must have been an interesting one...

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[info]hexar_le_saipe
2007-09-13 04:22 am UTC (link)
Just hope is wasn't on a Monday...

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[info]zenfrodo
2007-09-13 04:23 am UTC (link)
Wow. you had the money to go see U2 AND The Eagles AND The Stones AND Pink Floyd?

Jeebus. And here I thought all cartoonists were broke.

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 12:00 pm UTC (link)
In a previous life, I was a music critic for the State Journal in Madison.

I saw U2 three times on their Zoo TV tour.

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[info]zenfrodo
2007-09-14 12:46 am UTC (link)
Ahhhhh, so you not only got to see them for free, but you then got to write articles about how much they all sucked afterwards. I seeeeeeeee. :-P


(well, that's what all the music critics around here do, anyway.)

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[info]wiredwizard
2007-09-13 04:40 am UTC (link)
Is it sad that of those 25, I've only seen *1, and if I add up all the bands I've seen, it doesn't even come to 10?

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[info]autumnsfire
2007-09-13 11:42 am UTC (link)
Seen more than I have - I've seen...none of those in concert.

Tori Amos and TSO are the only two concerts I've ever been to.

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[info]princeofcairo
2007-09-13 05:47 am UTC (link)
1. The Replacements*
2. Bob Mould (solo)*
3. Sugar
4. Uncle Tupelo
5. Pink Floyd*
6. Roger Waters (solo)
7. Stiff Little Fingers
8. Bruce Springsteen
9. REM
10. P.I.L.
11. B.A.D.
12. Live
13. Lush
14. Ramones
15. Richard Thompson
16. Pogues
17. Liz Phair
18. Decemberists
19. Reverend Horton Heat
20. Mojo Nixon
21. Kinks
22. Eurythmics
23. They Might Be Giants
24. North Mississippi All-Stars
25. John Wesley Harding
25. Warp 11

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 12:04 pm UTC (link)
From your others:

I've also seen REM (and interviewed them, twice)
B.A.D. (opening for U2)
Richard Thompson ("This next song is "She Knives the Twit Again".)
The Decemberists, with Camper Van Beethoven opening

The crossovers are surprisingly few...

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[info]princeofcairo
2007-09-14 05:18 am UTC (link)
Like you, I just tossed down the first 25 that occurred to me. Perhaps we'd overlap more if we compared master lists.

Though I'm surprised you've never seen Liz.

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-14 12:34 pm UTC (link)
Would have loved to. Just never been near when she's been touring.

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[info]sorchar
2007-09-13 08:28 am UTC (link)
I went to see Thompson Twins in '85 purely because OMD was opening for them. I mean, I liked TT okay, but I wouldn't have paid to see them if not for Paul and Andy. *G*

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 03:38 pm UTC (link)
I saw OMD in 80, after Architecture and Morality, and it was great.

I still love those first three OMD albums...

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[info]sorchar
2007-09-13 08:03 pm UTC (link)
Yes! Gorgeous stuff.

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[info]replyhazy
2007-09-13 03:14 pm UTC (link)
JK, you are a nut! Thanks for throwing your many electoral votes behind Buster the Demon Cat!

(Have you eaten at Cocoliquot yet?)

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 03:37 pm UTC (link)
No problem at ALL!

Been to Cocoliqout. I've found the food OK, if a bit underwhelming for what they're trying to be (I prefer Sardine, about the same price but much better and more consistent bistro fare, or even Coquette Cafe in Milwaukee). Though the chocolates and coctails at Cocoliquot are fabulous.

Thinking about the Big Birthday Bash?

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[info]replyhazy
2007-09-13 03:42 pm UTC (link)
I would hate to miss a year of September Fabulousness!

For some reason my brain is in Steak Frites mode... but talk to Bill if you see him at Games Day.

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 03:46 pm UTC (link)
For Steak Frites, absolutely either Sardine of Coquette, in Milwaukee...

We will make it so!

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[info]kalyr
2007-09-13 06:03 pm UTC (link)
Here's my 25 (Biased towards bands I've seen this year, with a smattering of memories from 80s festivals)

Anathema
Blue Öyster Cult
Breathing Space
Bryan Adams
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Dweezil Zappa
Hayseed Dixie
Iron Maiden
Jethro Tull
Journey
Karnataka
Marillion
Mostly Autumn
Odin Dragonfly
Opeth
Pink Floyd *
Polish October
Porcupine Tree
Queensÿche
Rammstein
Rory Gallagher
Styx
The Reasoning
Thin Lizzy

Only one band (Pink Floyd) common to both lists.

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[info]artpaulrocks
2007-09-13 06:09 pm UTC (link)
I would have to say I saw a different list of bands then you did.

I saw these bands:

Weird Al Yankovic(3 times in Madison)
They Might Be Giants
Dread Zepplin
Smashing Pumkins(I was the doorman at OCayz Corral)
The great LukeSki
The Red Elvises
Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks
The Gomers
Don McLean
Paul Revere & The Raiders
Warren Zevon
Jan & Dean
Joen Baez
Steve Earle
Arlo Guthrie
Da Yuppers
The Irish Rovers
Peter & Lou Barryman
Amy Grant
Petra
Michael W Smith
Possible Oscar
Worm Quartet
Wesley Willis
& Ookla The Mok

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[info]muskrat_john
2007-09-13 06:54 pm UTC (link)
From your list, I've seen:

They Might Be Giants
The Great LukeSki
The Gomers
Warren Zevon
Arlo Guthrie (with Holly Near, Pete Seeger and Ronnie Gilbert as HARP)
Peter & Lou Berryman
Ookla the Mook

SO cool about the Smashing Pumpkins at OCayz!

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[info]artpaulrocks
2007-09-13 09:43 pm UTC (link)
I actaully was their doorman twice just around the time they recorded with Butch Vig.

I still don't know why they got so popular.

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