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Pretty funny, I haven't played COD4 in a while, but I definitely recall that I spent some time maneuvering around the bumper cars trying to survive. Took a few tries for me to get through that section on the high difficulty setting.

Not the best quality, but interesting as a historical document. It brings back lots of memories.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m0vAqnq1vW0

Some of the Paris May 72 shows were recorded on video tape: saw It Hurts Me Too & I Know You Rider in 1976 in a theatre in Paris, part of a "rock and roll on video" show; these were in black and white, not the greatest quality. I've always wondered if they filmed more than that.

As I was reading your post and you hit upon this abandoned amusement park, I IMMEDIATELY thought of that piece of COD4 as you've so masterfully referenced. Indeed, that was an eerie setting not to mention I had to do it over like 50 times to beat it. I would end up hunkering down in one of the bumper car pavilions to survive the onslaught. Clearly this is totally out of the GD realm but nonetheless your mention brought my mind to this exact scene...

And as others have noted, I too am eagerly awaiting the next Jerry Box....this comes from one of my favorite eras for his band so it will surely be a treat. Poke The Eel.

And it's Friday.....exhale

Sixtus

Well...and I thought Hippi Chick was kinda crazy....now we have Shikhashiripune who takes the personal pic to another level....nice tits, or maybe just another worthless spammer that Marye will eventually Deal with. Seems the bot test is not so good which some of us already knew...

Now spinning: ThE Ornette Coleman Trio at the “golden circle” Stockholm vol 1.....

And Now,,,,The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.....my dog is a Howlin while a make a CD for a friend.....

And now...The Beatles Abbey Road while most of you sleep!

KCJ

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I too am eagerly awaiting the Electric on the Eel box, got my pre-order in last month. Looks like some cool songs on there, particularly looking forward to checking out the Don't Let Go, always one of my favorites, and I have high hopes for the You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie).

So Muleskinner, you piqued my curiosity about the Chernobyl book - any chance you can post the title? I have seen a couple of articles in National Geographic about Chernobyl and some of the photo's that I have seen of the deserted remains of the town of Pripyat are just eerie on some basic level. Always dug the virtual recreation of the Pripyat amusement park in the FPS video game COD 4: MW. Abandoned places kind of fascinate me, sort of the physical embodiment of the sublime power of time.

I count 5 days until the Jerry Eel box ships, can you tell I'm looking forward to it?
I've been diggin' the Beatles 50th ann release of the white album and I just ordered the Kinks 50th ann release of Village Preservation Society.

Ooops that was Dancin' > Franklin's Tower to kick off the second set of 30Trips79. Listening to it again tonight, and then on to Caution!

Love the Swing, man. What a classic. Besides the obvious highlights / debuts, really digging the Deal.

Been on the Fillmore West 69 set now for the first time; the 3-disc compilation was one of the first 'deep cut' Dead I bought in 2013 (I was surprised by the amount of sleazy blues), I have 2/27/69 from Record Store Day last year (the only live show of theirs I have on vinyl, wasn't really keen on the idea but that show was worth it) but I hadn't listened to the whole run before. Spinning 2/28/69 in the car on repeat these last two weeks, gowzah. That Drums > Jam. Nevermind actual songs! :O

A friend bought me a book on pro wrestling, it put me on a nostalgic run of Youtube back to 1999..we were all about that around 8th grade, the Attitude era. Fun to go back; Stone Cold, The Rock, Mankind...DX! I've got two words for you..

Speaking of books wrapped up one on Chernobyl, never knew much about it before. Talk about fascinating..from the process safety behaviors that lead to it, to the response, the fallout, the poor casualties, the eeriness of the Exclusion Zone. The author I read gave a history of it all, but was also an urban explorer / photographer that got to visit 'the Zone' in 2011 and that aspect was fascinating and disturbing in itself.

Rumors abound of a Dylan release of live Rolling Thunder (first leg, '75) box set to coincide with the coming Scorsese documentary. That's alpha and omega for me, bringing it all back home. *cue The Office it's happening! meme*

When I Paint My Masterpiece in a transparent Nixon mask. Renaldo and Clara. Appropriate for this week, eh...commedia dell'arte. Cherise was dressing as Pierrot* in white...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRkjUBusSdU

Don't tell me this town don't got no heart.

https://vimeo.com/262350673

I do not think the GD owns Tivoli, the Beat Club or Chateau d'HerouvilIe. So we are at the mercy of cooperation, contracts, lawyers and money to ever see them get released.

Fingers crossed..