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  1. [cite]Love and Warhol[/cite] by Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl is a 2016 single that hasn't been released commercially and isn't currently on an album. But since it's 2016 music, this thread seems to be the best place to mention it. The song was written for an Andy Warhol exhibit and is available on SoundCloud.
  2. I also like these weird bluegrass bands like The Steeldrivers. I have two Steeldrivers albums in my iTunes library. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm listening to their eponymous album as I type this. Anyway, I think danzig6767 has hit the nail on the head when he says that "hipster" is "thrown around to loosely." It's like "rock." You hear one of those terms, and you still have no idea what the music is about. I recall the days when we could call radio stations with requests. We always figured that if a station would play Snopek, it was cool. Smaller stations in Milwaukee and Madison would do that, along with a reservation station in northwestern Wisconsin. I stopped listening to commercial radio a long, long time ago. The big fat flaw is that artists have to fit their music to a formula to get played. It was a major bummer when Madison's WIBA suddenly changed from a free-flowing format to a commercially dictated format circa 1980. (Before that, they'd fulfill requests for Snopek. ) If there's good commercial music that I end up liking, I've likely found out about it through one of the ways that danzig6767 mentioned… just like I would have found out about music that hasn't been acknowledged commercially. Satellite and the Internet have helped considerably. iTunes has been huge. There are streaming services like Pandora and Spotify. And of course, word of mouth has always been around. But the fact that listeners are looking for something other than what's considered "popular" doesn't make them "hipsters." People are simply looking for good blues, jazz, punk, classical, folk, country, rock and roll, bluegrass, or whatever.
  3. We don't hear about players being placed on waivers because that information is never announced. If we get the info, it's because of a "reliable" leak or it's because something that's announced (like a DFA) might involve waivers.
  4. I got MLBtv for the first time this season and have been occasionally watching games. I access it with an AppleTV and while generally positive, the app is about 3/4 complete. It always starts with the last game of the season, game 7 WS, and requires a click to navigate 1 game, so to watch something a couple months back is 60 clicks - lame. Yeah, the app for the third generation Apple TV sucks that way. You can avoid repeated clicking by holding down the "left" button on the remote's wheel. When you do that, the app will speed up, and you'll move back much more quickly. Still, moving about is not as easy as one would like. On the fourth generation Apple TV, there's a calendar available that speeds things up considerably. Highlight the date and click. A calendar will appear, and you can navigate from that.
  5. Going off topic, here are some other artists who went a long time between albums: Violent Femmes (2016): 16 years between studio albums; 10 years after a live album; 1 year after a vinyl EP (which hardly counts) The Suburbs (2013): 27 years between studio albums; 20 years after a CD of previously released material Sunblind Lion (2014): 36 years between studio albums; 34 years after a live album
  6. I find that stalls are frequently much more disgusting, especially if you have to deal with moving the seat. Plus, there's the potential issue of tying it up if someone might "really" need it. As far as the original issue, I've never really thought about it and haven't paid attention to the personal choices of others. But at the risk of getting way too personal, I guess how I operate depends on the pair of pants I'm wearing.
  7. Good point. Jukeboxes have been streaming since the availability of broadband Internet.
  8. I acquired quite a bit of music last year, but most of it was released previous to 2016. Some 2016 releases, in no particular order: The Claypool Lennon Delirium - [cite]Monolith of Phobos[/cite] Sunblind Lion - [cite]Live Lion Volume II[/cite] Violent Femmes - [cite]We Can Do Anything[/cite] The Abler Boys - [cite]See in Sound[/cite] The Cactus Blossoms - [cite]You're Dreaming[/cite] By the way, if you ever get a chance to see Sunblind Lion, do it. Guys in their sixties performing original 70s-style rock with albums released in 1976, 1978, 1980, 2014, and 2016.
  9. August 11 vs. the Braves. That was the game where the Brewers scored in every inning. On May 17th vs. the Cubs, Chase Anderson took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and a shutout into the ninth.
  10. Watch the articles on Appleinsider for deals. You can frequently save a couple hundred dollars (or more, depending on model), get free shipping, bypass sales tax, and get about $50 off on AppleCare. If you scroll down, you can locate expired offers to get an idea of how they work and how good the deals have been. Then watch for new offers and take advantage when you think the time is right.
  11. LE, what you'd like obviously makes sense. But my guess is that power goes to the switch, then to the patio light, then to the motion lights. I don't see that being easy to change without running another hot wire somewhere. If the power comes to the patio light then runs back to the switch, things could be changed around in the box that supports the patio light. But if the patio light was wired that way, the electrician probably would have bypassed the switch to begin with. You never know, though. It wouldn't hurt to ask either the landlord or the electrician. The thought of a timer that would replace one of the three-way switches occurs to me, but that won't help you get from the car to the house. I wonder the bottom of the stairs is close enough to one of the switches for a remote option to work. The easiest solution might be to make sure that the patio light has an LED bulb. Its wattage would likely be low enough that it wouldn't use enough electricity to be significant, and it would likely last long enough that replacement cost shouldn't be a big deal either.
  12. When the temperature gets cold, it's logical to make sure that your tires have enough air. However, the two places I checked yesterday didn't have air available because it was too cold for the air pumps to function.
  13. In case you're not keeping close track of the Gabor sisters, Zsa Zsa was best known for being married a jillion times and being a guest star everywhere. Her sister Eva was the "GOODBYE CITY LIFE" voice of Green Acres. The third Gabor sister was Magda. Zsa had nine husbands, Eva had five, and Magda had six. George Sanders was married to both Zsa Zsa and Magda. Their mother Jolie made it a four-ring circus. She was married only three times.
  14. I've seen it so often that I'm not even weirded out by it anymore. Note that I'm not saying that I don't think it's weird; it's just that I've become immune. It sure seems like an invitation to a wet hand or wet clothing.
  15. unless i've missed a transaction, the last time the brewers took a player in the major league phase of the rule 5 draft and traded him that same day was in 2006, when they took lhp edward campusano and traded him to detroit for cash. Maybe that's what I was thinking of. At any rate, after reviewing past draft results, I don't see anything involving the Rockies.
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