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Primative Radio Gods were an awesome band, btw. Rocket is one of my favorite albums, and White Hot Peach is up there as well. I can only imagine that releasing Standing Beside a Broken... as their first single killed them. That song is WAY "poppier" than anything else. The people that liked the song wouldn't have liked the album, and the people that would have liked the album wouldn't have bought it b/c of the single. If you're wondering why I bought it, I hadn't heard the single... it was just the cheapest CD in the new releases section, and I was almost broke. Very serendipitous. I've still got a lot of catching up to do with the bootleg database. I should have this weekend to myself tho, so hopefully I'll get a chance to get everything updated. Saw the Making the Video for Avril last night. I think I'd like her a lot more if MTV didn't like her so much. She certainly came across as... well... an 18 year-old girl. :-/ (No offense to all the 18 year-old girls, of course.) Finally bought and watched Lawrence of Arabia. Hence the new quote at the top. AMAZING movie, and he was an amazing man. I have a copy of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom on the way. If I'm ever able to actually slog through damn-near 700 pages, it'll be a miracle. But anyway, if you haven't seen the movie, you should. They definitely diefy Lawrence, which seems a little strange, but it really is a great movie, and Peter O'Toole really was amazing. Not to mention Alec Guiness doing a FANTASTIC job as Prince Feisal. All in all, it just pissed me off that the Arabs weren't ever able to unite and that they're still in the same situation today. The Arabs, as a people, really were a great people. It's so sad that the Middle East has become such a political hotbed. Not to say that a lot of it isn't our (Britain, France, US...) fault, but still. Now. CIF. I have a really good show that I'm dying to upload, but it hasn't been a month for the Potbelly's show yet. The number of hits I've been getting lately is declining, so I'm assuming that most everyone who wanted Potbelly's has already gotten it. I'm going to try and get this new show (Charlottesville, VA - March 7th) uploaded sooner rather than later. It's soundboard, and they even got Howie to come down and play a few songs with them. Overall, I think it's one of the better shows I've heard. Except that I really wish they'd quit playing Moonshiner live. It's such a downer...