Rat-boy

Living outside SF, I can’t say I feel the same. The only team I can’t stand more that the Patsies are the Whiners. Local media and fans are insufferable, and that’s when they aren’t very good. The last few years it’s been tough to turn on sports radio.

Was this one of those periods when ICE and maybe Hogboy were banned?

Well she slid down the hall in her socks and yelled “Come outside, No, no no, nothing’s wrong I just happen to have a surprise” So we fell through the door like the autumn leaves And I wrestled my brother down to his knees Just to watch as her rocket shot into the October sky There’s a picture of us In a layer of dust On the mantle right by my cigarettes that I smoked since you left ‘Cause you said you had to fly In your October sky Now I work in the city and I blend into the crowd And the people grieve with me since the towers came down, down You could cut the pollution with a butter knife You could wake up at two and then party all night But I'm missin' my mama, so I stand on the street and get high There's a picture of us Hidden in a layer of dust On the mantle Right by my cigarettes that I smoke since you left 'Cause you said you had to fly In your October sky

We can walk our roads together If our goals are all the same We can run alone and free If we pursue a different aim Let the truth of love be lighted Let the love of truth shine clear Sensibility, armed with sense and liberty With the heart and mind united In a single Perfect Sphere.

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone Turned on some music to start my day I lost myself in a familiar song I closed my eyes and I slipped away It's more than a feeling (More than a feeling) When I hear that old song they used to play (More than a feeling) I begin dreaming (More than a feeling) 'Til I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walkin' away

She came in through the bathroom window Protected by a silver spoon But now she sucks her thumb and wanders By the banks of her own lagoon Didn't anybody tell her? Didn't anybody see? Sunday's on the phone to Monday Tuesday's on the phone to me

Left a good job in the city Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day And I never lost one minute of sleepin' Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been Big wheel keep on turnin' Proud Mary keep on burnin' Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis Pumped a lot of 'pane down in New Orleans But I never saw the good side of a city 'Til I hitched a ride on a riverboat queen Big wheel keep on turnin' Proud Mary keep on burnin' Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river

I've been a bad, bad girl I've been careless with a delicate man And it's a sad, sad world When a girl will break a boy just because she can Don't you tell me to deny it I've done wrong, and I wanna suffer for my sins I've come to you 'cause I need guidance to be true And I just don't know where I can begin What I need is a good defense 'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal And I need to be redeemed to the one I've sinned against Because he's all I ever knew of love

Once upon a time, once when you were mine I remember skies reflected in your eyes i wonder where you are i wonder if you think about me Once upon a time in your wildest dreams Once beneath the stars The universe was ours Love was all we knew And all I knew was you I wonder if you care I wonder if you think about me Once upon a time in your wildest dreams And when the music plays When the words are touched with sorrow When the music plays I hear the sound I have to follow Once upon a time…

Having Southern US teams in the NHL just seems wrong. Guess it’s good that there are hockey fans in those markets, but c’mon…really? Is there even ever any ice in Dallas outside of the stadium? And don’t even get me started on a Miami-based team in the finals. Ugh.

I’ve always been partial to Hemispheres. The A side is not as powerful overall as the A of 2112, but it it’s a great concept tying into Cygnus X-1, and the album overall has some truly memorable tracks: The Trees La Villa Strangiato The Sphere Agree with the OP - every album except maybe the first is memorable for its own reason. But I’d have to put MP as the most complete. Nothing there below a grade of B+ by my opinion for sheer listenabilty, although other albums have more for music geeks like me.

Really brilliant production of a UIUC (university) group’s vocal cover of Yebba’s “October Sky”. Listen on good speakers and through to the end.

Run, run, run away Like a train runnin' off the track Got the truth being left behind Fall between the cracks Standin' on broken dreams Never losin' sight Well, just spread your wings We'll get higher and higher Straight up we'll climb We'll get higher and higher Leave it all behind So baby dry your eyes Save all the tears you've cried Oh that's what dreams are made of 'Cause we belong In a world that must be strong Oh that's what dreams are made of

Lyin’ in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw and not much to say i said to the man are you tryin to tempt me? because I come from the land of plenty? and he said… I come from a land down under…

I don’t like country music generally, but this one qualifies.