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Post by headlightbeams on Dec 7, 2005 11:57:50 GMT -5
The Liberal on Karl Rove's Case
Washington Post
By Richard Leiby
excerpt:
Karl Rove's greatest defender in Washington these days is a Democratic lawyer and onetime newspaper reporter named Robert Luskin. He is Rove's attorney in the high-stakes CIA leak case, and is widely credited with sparing his client from indictment so far.
But perhaps more intriguing is Luskin's other role. He plays the Anti-Rove.
Just look at the guy: Luskin, 55, wears a gold hoop earring and Euro-hip eyeglasses. He's buff and bald. (But bald in a good way.) He rides a black Ducati Monster motorcycle, which its maker touts as the bike of choice of "top designers" and "Hollywood stars." In his office he spins the CDs of antiwar balladeer Steve Earle and ex-punk Paul Westerberg.
Rove, the pudgy uber-operative also known as Bush's Brain, helped put a brush-clearing conservative Christian into the White House by bad-mouthing the liberal elites of this world -- people just like Luskin.
So how is it that a man of somewhat Neiman-Marxist tastes, a self-described liberal on social issues, became the potential rescuer of Rove, whom many on the left are salivating to see frog-marched from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?
If you have to ask, say observers of the Rove-Luskin alliance, then you obviously haven't been in Washington very long.
... His office decor reflects a raffish personality. On the coffee table sits a life-size articulated wooden hand, the kind figure-drawing students use, with its middle finger upraised. The words "Free Karl!" are scrawled in chalk on a slate clock hanging on the wall above his desk. (A flourish added by his colleagues, Luskin says.)
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Post by mcoryell on Dec 7, 2005 22:10:02 GMT -5
I am sure this has been posted, But it was news to me......anyway, I came across this today on Juliana Hatfield site.... I grew up in a small coastal Massachusetts town. As a young girl, I was enamored of Olivia Newton-John and I saw Grease six times when it came out in theaters. But when I discovered the Replacements in high school, it was true love. With these as my two main inspirations (Replacements and Olivia Newton-John) I saw her open for X the other day and I definitely heard PW's influence. I was impressed, having next to no familiarity with her stuff. Won me over. Good guitar playing, too. |
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Post by allshookup on Dec 9, 2005 21:15:26 GMT -5
From the highly recommended littlehits.com:
The Liquor Giants are what might happen if Paul Westerberg was as effective at channeling Alex Chilton as he's often given credit for. Imagine if the first two Replacements LPs on Sire were packed with songs as good as "Left Of the Dial" and "Can't Hardly Wait," and you get a pretty good idea of the quality of the Liquor Giantss 3rd and 4th albums. (Matador Records. I imagine they're still being used around the office as coasters and doorstops.) Ward Dotson is unfailingly smart and tuneful, and possesses a great knack for everyloser lyrics and knockout choruses. It could be argued, I suppose, that Dotson is never quite so anthemic as Westerberg is on songs like "Here Comes a Regular" or one of the four great songs from Let It Be, but on stuff like "Riverdale High" and "Just Might Cry" he's at least in the ballpark.
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Post by headlightbeams on Dec 9, 2005 21:20:48 GMT -5
Imagine if the first two Replacements LPs on Sire were packed with songs as good as "Left Of the Dial" and Can't Hardly Wait they are ... I'm going back to imagining all the people living life in peace |
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Post by headlightbeams on Dec 10, 2005 11:58:26 GMT -5
From the MPLS Star Tribune's Saturday Homes section, a story about PW's suburb: Creative destruction -- even in Edina www.startribune.com/stories/417/5767743.htmlA neighborhood characterized by 60-year-old houses and mature trees, the area of east Edina is undergoing a metamorphosis: Older dwellings are being extensively remodeled or demolished and replaced by bigger structures. ....[skip to end of article] ... Q If you could improve anything about the neighborhood, what would it be? Jen Austin: We need a dog park. Kevin Schultz: The only thing we really need is sidewalks. That would make a big difference. |
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Post by allshookup on Dec 10, 2005 12:21:21 GMT -5
Another one from littlehits.com:
The Coolies - Coke Light Ice
From the album Doug, DB Recs 1988
These Atlanta jokesters made an underground splash with Dig? a collection of goofy Simon and Garfunkel covers (plus a version of Paul Anka's "Having My Baby"). Amazingly, The Coolies followed the one-joke Dig? with the brilliant Doug, a trenchant "rock opera" about a skinhead who murders a transvestite short-order cook, gets rich by publishing his victim's recipes, falls into paranoia and substance abuse and ends up in the gutter. The sad tale is related through ingenious knockoffs of the Who ("Cook Book"), John Lennon ("Poverty"), The Replacements ("Coke Light Ice"), rap ("P*ssy Cook") and metal ("The Last Supper"), and a comic book designed by Jack Logan of Pete Buck Comics fame. Doug is a work of demented genius.
If you go to littlehits.com there's a free download of Coke Light Ice, an almost-brilliant 'Mats knockoff.
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Post by cford on Dec 12, 2005 10:24:30 GMT -5
Another one from littlehits.com: The Coolies - Coke Light Ice From the album Doug, DB Recs 1988 If you go to littlehits.com there's a free download of Coke Light Ice, an almost-brilliant 'Mats knockoff. I was roped in and downloaded the song...It jangles sorta like PTMM era, Mats, but had they not told me it was a Mats knockoff I never woulda guessed. CF |
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Post by allshookup on Dec 12, 2005 13:22:27 GMT -5
I was roped in and downloaded the song... It jangles sorta like PTMM era Mats, but had they not told me it was a Mats knockoff I never woulda guessed. After a couple listens, I think it sounds more like the Gear Daddies than the Replacements. |
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Post by Color me impressed on Dec 20, 2005 11:57:22 GMT -5
From ESPN Page 2 columnist, Bill Simmons...last weeks mailbag.  |
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Post by A Regular on Dec 20, 2005 16:26:52 GMT -5
Replacement Jesus found
Headline in Cincinnati paper, about a nativity scene gone amuck.
I might have been the only reader that started humming Can't Hardly Wait.
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Post by FreeRider on Dec 21, 2005 16:58:35 GMT -5
I swear to God I am hardwired to pick out Paul or the Mats over the crowd noise in this one bar. I was drinking in this faux Irish pub last nite with some co-workers when over the din, I realized the song over the PA was "Skyway". I've heard "Achin' To Be" and "I'll Be You" played in that bar before. Whatever music service they use, they sure like the Mats.  |
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Post by allshookup on Dec 21, 2005 19:02:36 GMT -5
From the latest (Dec 29) Rolling Stone:
The Top 50 Records of 2005
28. The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday. The Hold Steady are the wildest, funniest indie-rock bar band since the Replacements.
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Post by KingArchie on Dec 23, 2005 2:21:40 GMT -5
While Christmas shopping for the wife the other night. I wandered into Areopostle (clothing store-pretty bad too). The place was blasting "Can't Hardly Wait" so I decided to give the place a look. It also got me thinkin' in my retail days most of the time its the same songs played over and over and I ended up walking away hating many of those songs. I hope that doesnt happen to any of them with the mats. : )
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Post by headlightbeams on Dec 26, 2005 1:00:48 GMT -5
From rollingstone.com: Shawn Colvin Moves On Singer-songwriter recording new album for new label www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/9032255?rnd=1135576037359&has-player=unknown(The end of that URL ain't a real ego-booster for old Shawn, RS) "The new album will also feature a couple of cover tunes, but Colvin is keeping mum, revealing only that one is a Paul Westerberg song." She covered "Even Here We Are" in 1998, but maybe there's a clue to this one in the article's last quote: "I'm going to quit smoking. It's such a pitiful addict resolution. I stopped drinking twenty-three years ago, and that was cake compared to this. I've quit for four years . . . twice." |
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Post by SnowCover on Jan 1, 2006 17:20:14 GMT -5
I was watching the Lucero movie Dreaming In America and the guitarist talks about The Replacements. He was excited that there was only one degree of seperation between Lucero and The Replacements because they were being produced by Jim Dickinson. He also said that Pleased To Meet Me was the first Replacements record he ever bought.
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Post by thetwilitekid on Jan 1, 2006 19:46:57 GMT -5
I'm sure Scooter will be proud of an aspect of this random sighting:
in yesterday's paper that I read today, had a top 25 albums for the year list and #2 had the description "imagine Springsteen invading the corner bar and playing Replacements covers."
Which band is it?
If you said Marah then you'd be right.
That's Marah, not Mariah, by the way.
Oh, and Paul was mentioned in the celebrity birthdays.
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Post by kgp on Jan 5, 2006 18:15:03 GMT -5
Sorta' but not really Replacements sighting:our (St. Louis) music rag ran an ad for the First Ave. Bootlegs Cd.
The same paper did its 'best-of's.' No Paul. If fact all of their critics listed their favorite concerts of 2005 and not one of them mentioned Paul's CoMo show-- which was stellar, by the way.
(Of course one guy's favorite shows included Carrot Top, Whitesnake, and Kelly Clarkson, so I guess I shouldn't be too shocked.)
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Post by bigbak on Jan 6, 2006 12:43:15 GMT -5
The only thing better than the Avalanche handing it to the Wild last night was hearing "I Will Dare" blasting out of the arena's sound system.
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Post by TomT on Jan 6, 2006 20:25:31 GMT -5
Listening to a Chicago sports radio show and they played a loop of the beginning to Kiss Me On the Bus while they promo'd other shows on the station. At the end they kicked into the guitar solo. Very nicely done.
Someone is a fan...
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Post by kgp on Jan 8, 2006 12:43:28 GMT -5
VH1's Alternative played 'The Ledge.' Remember when MTV wouldn't? And then five years later Pearl Jam does 'Jeremy'--same idea, yet a more graphic video--and they're playing it every fifteen minutes.
Also, I never noticed Tommy's Blue Note shirt until now.
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