if you are a baseball fan spring training is a must!
the access to the players is awesome. i spent one game bullshitting for 3 hours with the yankee bullpen. choate, hitchcock, and pettite plus others. just shooting the breeze. the bullpen coach talked to me for like 30 minutes about how shitty mussina looked in the afternoon game.
went to a practice and met mattingly, jackson, jeter, and yogi fucking berra!!
i ended up drinking with drew henson one night and he took my number and called me to hang with him and his friends the next night. we exchanged numbers and we are going to hang out when he comes to town. very cool dude!
the games are fun, the weather great. you can not miss this if you love baseball.
i promise to now never mention this again.
until next year.

you all know you missed me. you may post mean things here but deep down inside you longed for my return.

by the way: spring training was the best week of my life!

this for you know who: 1 day since i've been back from spring training



Edited By Arpikarhu on Mar. 08 2002 at 5:11

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Edited By IkeaBoy on Mar. 08 2002 at 4:37

Well Spit's thread was about the rules for FANS, this one is a list of the 33 1/3 rules for rockstars. Not from my fav music site buddyhead but from earcandy.

Don't be THIS artist!

1. Do not retain a band's name if the most important member(s) has left the group. Does anybody (even Pete Townshend) really like anything the Who have recorded since Keith Moon died in 1978?
2. Do not sing a song about Elvis, especially if you have never been in a recording studio before.

3. Do not record for Arista Records. In the late eighties, Clive Davis's label was a haven for art-rock has-beens eager for one last pillage, like GTR and the Kantner-Balin-Casady Band (both of which broke up after one album) and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (pending). Arista's flagship "new" artists of the time, particularly Milli Vanilli, were cynical exploitation units.

4. Rock-an-roll songs with an orchestral choir are bound to be horrible. (Sole exception: "the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want.")

5. Rock lyrics are not poetry (especially if Sting or Bono writes them).

6. The quality of a rock-and-roll song is inversely proportional to the number of instruments on it (unless you're Van Morrison).

7. Supergroups never are.

8. Rock stars are not actors.

9. Actors are not rock stars.

10. White rock-and-roll stars who talk about their R&B roots are probably lying. Similarly, anyone born after April 1954 who records at the Sun Studio is a poseur. Furthermore, a return to roots in not necessarily a good thing. Listened to John Lennon's Rock'n' Roll lately?

11. Don't sing a song about your dead parent, especially if that parent was a celebrity. This is the Hank Williams, Jr. rule.

12. Elvis is dead.

13. Do not go to art school.

14. The more controversial the cause embraced, the more likely the star may actually be committed to it. Do you know anyone in favor or hunger or homelessness?

15. Whatever you do, Jerry Lee Lewis has already done it. Probably better, too.

16. A list is not a song. (Most blatant recent violation: Billy Joel's evasive "We Didn't Start the Fire.")

17. Established artists should not allow family members into the band.

18. There is no reason besides greed for an established performer to accept corporate sponsorship.

19. Live records should reflect what a performance actually sounded like when it occurred. We loved the Talking Head's Stop Making Sense until we found out how many studios were used for postproduction.

20. Videos are commercials.

21. Good politics are not what make good lyrics.

22. Formidable technical proficiency is never sufficient. This rule explains why art rock is always bad.

23. Neither is formidable hair. (Exception: Little Richard.)

24. Do not hang out with Jeff Lynne or Dave Stewart. They will produce your record, you will have to take part in periodic psychedelic revivals, and you'll start dressing like them. Do you want to wear a paisley vest and cowboy boots that badly?

25. Cult artists are frequently just a boring and predictable as mainstream ones. This is also called the Robyn Hitchcock rule.

26. Heavy metal should be fast.

27. Punk happened. (Note tense.)

28. If you have recorded more than three albums, someone will some day compile a boxed set dedicated to your oeuvre and Rolling Stone will give it four stars and call it a "grand summary, especially valuable in pristine CD."

29. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an oxymoron. If you want your work to be recognized in a museum, learn to paint.

30. Admit you're balding.

31. Love is not all you need. Psychedelic lyrics never ring true after you've come down.

32. Do not record cover versions of Motown or Stax/Volt hits.

33. Rock and roll is but one small part of the music being bade on this planet. Rockers who think they're changing the world are in fact only reaching a small part of it.


33 1/3.Do not die before Albert Goldman.

Just thinking about those Match.com commercials and how they are really advertising "Hey, good looking normal people here!"

So, the question is, would you or have you ever used a dating website?

Personally, I've always considered them a bit pathetic, but are they any worse than going to a bar and drinking every night? I mean, how many good people are you going to meet in a bar?
(I'm talking about relationships, not one-night stands.)

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For me, it's girls...
Everytime I take a SERIOUS interest in a female (and not just a "I'ld like to split her up the middle" hormonal thing either), they end up dating, going out with, or being seriously interested in one of my friends, like clockwork.
My consistent bad luck in this situation became such a running gag amongst my close friends, that if there was a girl THEY were really interested in.. they'd drag me along and try to get ME interested in them, counting on my own murphy's law to help them score.

What sort of bad luck do you just KNOW you'll get hit with in a specific situation? Not suspect, not worry, but because it happens EVERYTIME you KNOW it's going to happen.

as i lay in bed last night no matter how hard i tried, i could not fall asleep. i had so much on my mind. would you believe i was thinking about a few people who post here? i was just laying there wondering if they know how much they mean to me. when i signed up to oa.com i never thought i would meet anyone, let alone consider some of them my closest friends. now as i sit here i think about every time that some of you have been there for me. i look to you for guidance and friendship and you are willing to give that to me because you care, but do you really care as much as i do? i can honestly say i love a few of you like family, hopefully you know who you are. I'm just wondering if im crazy here or do other people feel the same way. Maybe not about me, but about someone here that you love like a brother/sister or even an uncle :loveya:



Edited By NaughtyAngel on Mar. 08 2002 at 10:45

I rushed out and got a GameCube the day it came out with Star Wars: RS and the promise of games to come. 4 and a half months later and there has yet to be any games on this fuckin system to get my intrest. Finally, AllStar Baseball 2003 was released on Tuesday and I was beyond happy. Now, while the sound was a little muffled, I loved this game. Finally, a new game for my $200 paperwieght. The detail was incredible all the way to Johnson's high socks from The Yanks.

So, I start a franchise and play through a few games. The hitting is a pain in the ass to say the least, but, the game is still fun. Shit, it even has games with rain, the first time I have ever seen that on a video game. So, after my games, I go to save my franchise, which I took a few hours updating rosters to the most current form with the help from ESPN.com.

I can't save. I keep getting errors while trying that I do noit have enough memory. I find this to be odd cuz I have a brand new card loaded to play the game. After five tries, I noticed something that made no fuckin sense at all at this point. A screne came up saying I need 157 blocks of memory to save this game. Wait a fuckin minute, GC cards only have 59 blocks of memory. So, I open the instruction booklet and lookee here, it actually says that there is no memory card that can actually save for a franchise or if you make an expansion team.

What the fuck is this happy horse shit? Why make a fuckin game that can't be saved? This is the shitiest thing I ever seen on a game system ever. How does Nintendo allow such a thing to take place? Am I supposed to just wait for an after market card to come out that would be almost three times the fuckin size of a regular memory card?

I have offically gave up on the GameCube. I already gave it away and will stick with my PS2 and Dreamcast from here on in. Fuck Nintendo and fuck Acclaim for making this game with such a glaring flaw. :fuckoff: :fuckoff: :fuckoff:

Hollywood is talking about remaiking a LOT of classic films like The Manchurian Candidate, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and many others.

So, what film would you love to see remade with modern special effects, cast, etc.??

What film should absolutely NEVER be remade? It would be sacrilige to remake it.

I would like to see a modern Wizard of Oz that was dark and true to the book. And also not a musical.
If anybody remembers the movie Return to Oz or read the book, you know what I mean.

The Godfather must NEVER be remade. Touch it and die Hollywood scum!