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Dale

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My Status

fading into anger, just a means to an end ...

Member Since

over 3 years ago

Total Posts

543

Total Comments

12874

Sports Teams - on the off-chance anyone cares

My First Album Was

My First Concert Was

  • Depeche Mode/OMD/Wire/Thomas Dolby The Rose Bowl - June 1988

Vital Signs

  • Mogger Since

    June 21, 2006

  • EMCD

    = Evil Music Crack Dealer

  • MOG's resident

    Data demon, PC-geeking, weight-dropping, no-drinking nice lil' Mormon boy :D

  • Record Labels I Love

    Factory, Creation, 4AD, Domino, Labrador, Safranin Sound, DiscError

  • No

    I did not spill paint on these Docs; they came that way.

  • Words To Live By

    "When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself not because of demands made by the Church, but because of the knowledge within his heart" - Gordon B. Hinckley, 1910-2008 RIP

  • Alive Since

    July 23, 1969

  • Family to date

    Married for 17 yrs, three boys ages 15, 12, 9

  • The e-family to date

    Greeneyedgirls in Leeds, Denver, Philly, Seattle, and Chicago; funk-soul brothers in Minneapolis, Indy, London and Denver

  • Red Rocks

    Now OFF the list of classic music venues where I need to see a concert. WHOO HOO!

Lyric Of The Week

  • "My neck hurts, cause i've been cutting moons/my hands hurt, cause i cut them from you" The Organ - There Is Nothing I Can Do
  • "These things I know/you're unknown" Maps - To The Sky
  • "I don't feel well/I've got this rattling in my chest/And the doctor says I should give it up because I'm clinically obsessed." Long Blondes - Lust In The Movies
  • "Pandora's box reveals a new surprise/can't wait to see your eyes/now you've been tantalized." The Church - Tantalized
  • "Well I've gone restless, well I don't care/I got fifteen bucks worth of savoir faire" UNKLE (w/Josh Homme) - Restless
  • "Tonight make me unstoppable/And I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle, I will outshine them all" Bloc Party - The Prayer
  • "You listen to trash but it's not rock 'n' roll" Howling Bells - Low Happening
  • "What you get is all real/I can't put on an act/It takes brains to do that anyway" XTC - The Mayor of Simpleton
  • "Repeat till it clings true/I've been lied to by the likes of you/From that point of view/I get the privilege to enlighten you" The Radio Dept. - Tell
  • "I think of him, I think of him with you instead/I wish him dead/you say that he, you say that he's nothing like me/but how can that be?" Pale Saints - Sight Of You
  • "Is it my own reflection I see/If you take the weight off, take the weight off me?" The Mary Onettes - The Companion
  • “But I crumble completely when you cry/it seems that once again you had to greet me with goodbye” Arctic Monkeys - 505
  • "Please say you'll stay/If I told you once I told you/Twice not to believe a word I/Say, you're the only one to make me feel that way" Velocity Girl - My Forgotten Favorite
  • "I sympathize with your new cause, I've fallen in love with all of your flaws" For Against - The Effect

Favorite Albums of 2007

  • #01: Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
  • #02: Ceremony - Disappear
  • #03: The Mary Onettes
  • #04: A Place To Bury Strangers
  • #05: New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
  • #06: UNKLE - War Stories
  • #07: Cinematics - A Strange Education
  • #08: Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
  • #09: Emma Pollock - Watch The Fireworks
  • #10: The National - Boxer

My Nominations for the MOG Great 501

  • Day 1: Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
  • Day 2: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  • Day 3: New Order - Power, Corruption And Lies
  • Day 4: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  • Day 5: Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
  • Day 6: Curve - Gift
  • Day 7: Lush - Split
  • Day 8: Public Image Limited - Second Edition
  • Day 9: The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters

Posts

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That's it, no more reading NME late at night
2 days ago

Am I reading this right?!? PIL reuniting for a tour, and possibly an album?!?Oh, this is going to suck. I can just feel it. Why, you ask? No Keith Levene, and no Jah Wobble.Those guys made PiL interesting sonically, upping the bass and making guitars sound like nails on glass. You think this reformed PiL is going to touch this? I don't think so.Darn it, now I'm all angried up and I need to get ...

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The whole decade of the aughts and this is it?!?
2 days ago

Today, NME released their Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade. Click the link, and you can read the original reviews of their top 10 albums. It's a good list overall, a lot of great albums along with others with which I'm not quite familiar.But I must admit, their #1 bugs me. The Strokes' debut album got the top spot, as voted upon my the NME staff, and some bigshot rockstars past and present...

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Get to know ... The Morning After Girls
12 days ago

Who?The Morning After Girls are a five-piece band originally from Melbourne, Australia, who have since migrated to New York. The main driving forces of the band are guitarists/singers Sacha Lucashenko and Martin B. Sleeman. Their music veers from lovely soaring acoustic strums to insanely catchy dream-pop, often within the blink of an eye. Their most recent album Alone was released this past Ju...

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Weight Loss To Date

  • 161 lbs (73 kg) - 28 Apr
  • 140 pounds (63.5 kg) - 14 Dec
  • 123 pounds (56 kg) - 13 Oct
  • 97 pounds (44 kg) - 13 July
  • 83 pounds (37.6 kg) - 29 May
  • 79 pounds (36 kg) - 24 May
  • 72 pounds (33 kg) - 5 May
  • 67 pounds (30 kg) - 18 Apr
  • 65 pounds (29 kg) - 6 Apr
  • 39 pounds (18 kg) - 24 Feb
  • 34 pounds (15 kg) - 17 Feb
  • 28 pounds (13 kg) - 10 Feb
  • 27 pounds (12.5 kg) - 3 Feb
  • 21 pounds (10 kg) - 27 Jan
  • 19 pounds (9 kg) - 19 Jan
  • 13 pounds (6 kg) - 12 Jan

Shows I'm Going To

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    Best Music I've Recently Seen

    • My Bloody Valentine El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, CA - 16 April 2009
    • Monolith Festival Red Rocks, Morrison, CO - 13 Sep 2008
    • Coachella Festival Empire Polo Fiels, Indio, CA - 25-27 April 2008
    • A Place to Bury Strangers Conservatory, Oklahoma City - 11 March 2008
    • Placebo Beaumont Club, Kansas City - 14 April 2007
    • The Cinematics Granada Theatre, Lawrence - 12 April 2007
    • Silversun Pickups Conservatory, Oklahoma City - 14 March 2007
    • Deerhoof Conservatory, Oklahoma City - 7 March 2007
    • Forward Russia Conservatory, Oklahoma City - 9 December 2006
    • Kasabian The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS - 3 October 2006
    • Curiosa Festival Tweeter Center, Tinley Park, IL - 12 August 2004
    • Interpol/The Stills Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO - 23 September 2003
    • Wire/Reno Divorce Bluebird Theatre, Denver, CO - 6 September 2003

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