Tyrion

So the new Beatles remasters are official released today, and you can catch a preview of the remastered versions at the Beatles site using the player in the top right. After listening through the samples, it appears that the remasters do a brilliant job of getting the Beatles' sound across much more clearly and vibrantly than the original 1987 cds did. Granted, the effect isn't spread equally across the board: the change decreases in magnitude from Please Please Me to Abbey Road. Songs from the early are totally redone in stereo and sound entirely new and fresh; songs from Rubber Soul and later tend to remain closer to their original 1987 sound, but a few have markedly improved quality. Granted, the sample for Strawberry Fields Forever seemed to be missing the entire left side of the track, but I'm hoping that's more an error from the uploading of the sample rather than the sound of the actual released track.

I concur.

Pie, you have the uncanny ability to stand in front of any object and make it appear demonic and ominous.

Crapsnap damnskies.

Mary Jo Kopechne. The woman that died (rather gruesomely, actually) when Kennedy crashed his car on Chappaquiddick Island.

Aaannd now I can't go to sleep as I'm in fear of demonic blonde woman haunting my dreams. Thanks.

Clearly, this Robert Smith? is a man of intellectual bravado.

I vaguely recall him being called Darth Taco, or something like that.

No one I think is in my tree I mean it must be high or low That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right That is I think it's not too bad. (****, I just realized I still have that lyric in my location...well...guess that proves I still like the song.)

Nope. You have to make a rude and indecent comment about Kain's embarrassingly and whorishly stacked sister before you can apologize and get yourself into the clear. (Sorry.)

The important thing is that now I can't drink out of a chalice or have sex with a vagina.

Might not work: "Chapter 509...uh...Roark builds a mighty city...Rapture...and discovers that the person who built Rapture was actually his father...wait...I mean...WOULD YOU KINDLY!? AHAHAHAH! NOW I HAVE EVERYTHING AND YOU HAVE NOTHING!" I'm just saying, that's the most likely end scenario given it's Ave we're talking about it. A lust for power and a tenuous grasp of reality is her forte.

Speaking of Arcade Fire, here's (Incidentally, also features the best, and to my knowledge the only, instance of magazine playing ever recorded.)

Argument Clinic > Silly Job Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM&feature=related

Isn't that just more of an oversized knife? I don't remember the ancient civilizations, sans the barbarian tribes, having terribly long swords. Now, if you owned a Spartan spear...that'd be impressive.