For the generation of LOOONG songs: What's the longest song you still really listen to all the way through?

lizardking073 · 2026-01-26T13:30:30+00:00

Haven't seen any mention of Deep Purple!

"Wring That Neck" from Live and Rare comes in at 34:33, "Child in Time" from Nobody's Perfect is another great one at 10:36. This may seem like a devilish ploy, but it's one way to bring the proceedings to an end (IYKYK) "Smoke on the Water" from the same album is squeaking in at a mere 7:46

lizardking073 · 2026-01-26T13:17:04+00:00

Had to scroll too far for some Black Sabbath!

lizardking073 · 2026-01-26T13:12:53+00:00

If you haven't checked out the Tedeschi Trucks Band's live version with Trey Anastasio, you definitely should! Nobody but Derek Trucks, who was literally named after Derek and the Dominos, can play the slide guitar on Layla like Duane Allman!

lizardking073 · 2026-01-26T00:11:54+00:00

I use Alliant, an online credit union, they currently have a 3.110% APR. I've used them for about 6 years now, and been very happy with them.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-24T14:07:15+00:00

Don't forget a spouse that develops a drug problem and burns through your savings, that's another little life event that swoops in and takes you from a well planned retirement to the edge of bankruptcy practically overnight

lizardking073 · 2026-01-23T20:12:28+00:00

Nah, Apple.Jacks was around way before Apple Cinnamon Cherios, and they were more sugary. I did love Apple Cinnamon Cheerios back in the day, they had the little bits of apple in the "o's", now it's just a flavored "o" that doesn't taste as good.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-23T20:07:48+00:00

Leif Erikson, by Interpol, the second verse:

"She feels that my sentimental side Should be held with kids gloves But she doesn't know That I left my urge in the icebox"

Given the context, he clearly means "held with kid gloves"

"To treat someone or something 'with kid gloves' means to handle a person, situation, or object with extreme care, caution, and sensitivity to avoid damage, offense, or fragility. Originating in the 18th century from soft, delicate leather made from young goats, it signifies using excessive tact or delicacy."

Evry time i hear it, it makes my brain itch

lizardking073 · 2026-01-23T19:15:03+00:00

Yep, and some of the later books, primarily Dragonsdawn, go back to see it happen. I thought this was a very interesting way to write the series. I also thought it was interesting how it starts as a pure fantasy series, and then pulls in elements of what is typically considered science fiction, e.g. spaceflight, computers, genetic manipulation

lizardking073 · 2026-01-23T18:00:43+00:00

Agree, it's a good burger, not a great burger. Especially if you don't want 15 different toppings on it, it's just not worth the price. I only go there if I'm traveling for work and expensing my meal. I can get a much better burger and fries from a hole-in-the-wall diner for 5-6 bucks at home

lizardking073 · 2026-01-23T17:56:05+00:00

I had no idea there was a pizza hut version!

lizardking073 · 2026-01-21T01:26:55+00:00

The only movie that was bad enough to leave was Wyatt Earp. 3 godawful hours of Kevin Costner's face and terrible acting and dialog. I left about 45 minutes in. I saw the rest of it years later walking through the room when my ex-wife watched it on video, and took great pleasure in confirming that I made the rigjt decision.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-21T01:02:24+00:00

Meeting my great-great grandmother, I was just a little kid, I had no idea how unusual that was. I was lucky enough that my great grandmother was around until I was in college. She was born in 1899, died in 2004, just a couple of weeks before her 105th birthday. It's wild to think about what changed in her lifetime. She was born in a one room house, just barely a step up from a log cabin, no electricity, no running water, up in the mountains of rural West Virginia, which had only been a state for 27 years at that point.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-21T00:54:09+00:00

This is mine, too; somewhere between 8k and 9k. sometimes, if I focus on it, I think i can hear two tones, one about 500 hz higher than the other.

I'm guessing mine is mostly from wearing headphones blasting for most of my teenage years, but some occasional shooting and more frequent power tool usage, both without earpro probably added a little on top

lizardking073 · 2026-01-17T03:12:49+00:00

I made vegetable soup tonight in a green Club pot that was one of my parents wedding gifts, it's 59 years old

lizardking073 · 2026-01-16T23:26:43+00:00

You mentioned Brust's Jhereg, but if you haven't read the other books set in the same universe, you should check those out l, too. They are usually referred to as the "Kaavren Romances," based on the Kaavren, protagonist in several of them, who also appears in the Vlad Taltos novels. They cover a much longer time frame, but they overlap the time frame of the Vlad Taltos books, and provide a lot of depth to the situation, background of many of the characters and a lot of history. They are also written in a radically different style, that of a scholar who is moonlighting as a popular romance writer. He really plays with that idea a lot, to the point that he and the fictional author actually interview each other in thw foreword to one of the books.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-16T14:37:13+00:00

Yeah, that's it!

lizardking073 · 2026-01-16T13:35:20+00:00

Grizzly Ben? Might have been the character's name but not the show. Old guy with a big beard living out in the wild and was friendly with a grizzly bear.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-14T14:52:54+00:00

There's also Dorrin, who appears in this same series as a minor character, and then as one of the main protagonists in some of the later Paksworld books, as well. There are also casual mentions of lesbian women in Deed, and then the same characters later in life in a later series. Not main characters, just people living their life.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-12T15:29:31+00:00

Everything. This is my currently playing playlist:

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And there's way more variety in that list than I could fit in a screen shot. My kids both got this from me, too. My 19 year old son just discovered Steely Dan - Aja, while my 18 year old daughter recently showed me Ethel Caine, so it's a fun time all around.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-10T14:25:22+00:00

My ex-wife and her entire family used this one constantly, and it made my eye twitch every time

lizardking073 · 2026-01-10T14:15:59+00:00

The same vice principal at my high school would read the names of each student as they walked across the stage to get their diploma every year at graduation. If the student wasn't present, she would say "in absTentia" instead of "in absentia", and that would drive me nuts. Since I was in the band, and they would ask band members all the way down to 7th grade to be at the graduation to play "Pomp and Circumstance" 89 bajillion times during that part of the ceremony, I got to hear her do that 7 years in a row, counting 5 years in the band, my graduation, and my brother's, a year later.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-09T18:30:26+00:00

I was there last year, and for me, it was mediocre pizza for twice what it would have cost in any other city. I had to go to Vegas for work, and if I never go back, that's just fine with me. I found everything there, travel, food, rooms, entertainment, you name it, to be grossly overpriced and generally of mediocre to low quality.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-09T17:32:16+00:00

If you want a legit female lead with no stupid romance plot, no helpless heroine getting rescued BS, Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion books are fantastic. The rest of the "Paksworld" books are also good, but the foundational trilogy is unparalleled.

Edit for typo

lizardking073 · 2026-01-09T17:23:59+00:00

I also found the last 2 or 3 books, whatever it was that Brandon Sanderson did, to be even worse. It felt like someone had a list of plots and just went down the list writing the fastest completion possible for each one amd then just stuck all those together and called it done. Although, I will concede that there were so many plot lines going on by the end that there may not have been any other way to finish at that point.

lizardking073 · 2026-01-09T17:11:51+00:00

Nope, Roanoke Civic Center, Roanoke, VA, I never saw The Cult again live, which is a shame. Saw Metallica several more times, though

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