Glitz Man
Grant Stieglitz
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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I received my Census as well and I already filled and mailed it out. Won't be much from a single 25 year old male who lives/rents an apartment.
1ryan5150: Have fun and enjoy yourself.
Finished listening G3 Live: Rockin' In The Free World. Loved it!
Grant
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III
Costa Mesa, CA
United States
Plays: Bass (25 years)
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I understand the importance of the census for funding and everything, I really do. And I know it's in the US Constitution. I also love charts and graphs and numbers and statistics, so I enjoy looking at the results.
But really...they're mailing a 12-page packet with room for information about 10 people (!!!) to every single address in the US? I can't imagine what miniscule percentage of homes or apartment units with unique addresses have 10 people living in them. You could cut the size of the form in half if you make the default size a family of five, and in half again if you only print it in one language.
The "your forms are coming soon" letter could have had something you could mail back if you needed room for more people, or wanted the form in another language. Even better, it could have included a web link so I could complete the census online. I know not everyone has web access, but a lot of people do. Why waste all that paper (and money, with the $2 million Super Bowl commercial)?
I'm not saying things were any better in the past, but with all the importance the Obama administration has given to technology and going green, the way this census is being handled is pretty pathetic.
JesseKennemer - I'm not quite sure what you're talking about..."that guy from Aerosmith" has a name, Brad Whitford, and he hardly has an ego.
Brad sticks to blues-based rock in Aerosmith, but you might want to read up on his other musical interests. In an interview from about 10 years ago:
Whitford: There's a lot of other things I'd like to do on the guitar maybe, but don't quite get a chance to do it all within the context of Aerosmith.
Guitar.com: What kind of things might those be?
Whitford: I don't know, maybe more sort of blues-jazz type things that I enjoy listening to. I like a lot of that solo guitar stuff that people do. I've always enjoyed Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and to just make a nice melody and sounds with your guitar.
Just look, Satch and Brad clearly get along OK.
...Austin...
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Mon Mar 15 '10 5:06:22 pm
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elpp
Jose Martinez
El Paso - Juarez, TX - Chih
US - Mexico
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In Mexico they will be sending high school and college students door to door to obtain the data. Highly unscientific method, but I guess that for a small monetary compensation many unemployed people would be willing to do it, both here and in the US.
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Alan McKenna
Dublin
Ireland
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Georgia is where the false broadcast happened, there was Russian conflict there in 2008, and people thought it was happening again
now why dont they make more videos like this? friggin thats when stuff was good i tells ya, mtv music awards should be the mtv tv awards, they don't even friggin' play music videos anymore
also keep yer weird barak shizzle over there :D ...yer such a obama ho m :D
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elpp
Jose Martinez
El Paso - Juarez, TX - Chih
US - Mexico
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Any IRON MAIDEN fans here? Do any of you belong to their fan club?? If you do let me know please, need to get good seats for at least 2 shows of their upcoming tour. elpp@yahoo.com . Thx!
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JesseKennemer
Jesse Kennemer
Grants Pass, Oregon
Usa
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Do the Stu.
i know, whom i to judge.
he was good, but Joe was doin his thing, fuckin well! you know! !
next thing you know joe is pattin guy from Aerosmith on the back and now playing rhythm and steppin back.! Joe kinda wrote melodies for red house and has alot to say ! so thats why i was bummed and felt he had an ego because he cut the best fucking guitar player in the world off!
no but he was smokin, but joe was on FIRE!
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McDave
Cook, MN
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I've played with a few people who needed to have the cord yanked out of their guitar.
Did I mention that I finally scored a job? Looks like I'm back in the home construction biz. Starting at $13/hr...may not seem like much but it's better than nothin'..
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Do The Stu
Austin Lewis, III
Costa Mesa, CA
United States
Plays: Bass (25 years)
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JesseKennemer - This isn't a Satch tour. It's a Hendrix tribute tour, and Satch is one of many guitarists on the bill.
I see you're in Oregon, so probably not, but did you happen to catch a show on the PSATMOR tour with Mountain opening? Joe and Leslie West jammed just about every night...Joe is quite happy to sit back and play rhythm guitar when he's onstage with his favorite guitarists.
And Red House is hardly Joe's song. Yes, it was on the 1997 G3 album, but Aerosmith has been playing that song live dating back to the 1970s. Heck, Brad has probably been playing that song longer than Joe has been playing guitar.
Maybe you only wanted to hear Joe, but Brad isn't a bad guitarist by any means. Check out this instrumental.
I don't mean to sound argumentative, but I love Aerosmith and there are a lot of people out there who just don't realize what Brad is capable of.
...Austin...
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