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Do not buy a G37

Best vehicle I have ever owned!!!

Total piece of junk from day one

Very reliable and an awesome ride!

Lots of repairs once the loan is paid off

Definition of Class from a Bygone Era

If newer vehicles weren't so expensive I wouldn't be tolerating this one

Remarkably solid machine, and great fun to drive and own

Great until 200k

I can't believe it's as good as it is. Beats expectations

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Me, at the Grand Canyon, in my New Order t-shirt. 1989. I don’t have the shirt. I do have the hat. On Saturday, June 17, 1989 I saw the following bands play live in San Diego at SDSU. New Order Public Image Ltd The Sugarcubes De La Soul In my memory this was a Lollapalooza...

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What do Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Harry Styles, Alicia Keys, Sting, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Ice-T, Queen Latifah, and Taylor Swift all have in common?

(C’mon, actually think about the question for a bit, don’t immediately jump to the answer. While there is a tendency for people to want immediate gratification, in fact, that whole quick shot of info, be it trivial, made-up, useful, or even critical, is predicated on things like websites, there is something to be said for the satisfaction that can be derived from figuring things out, whether this is solving Wordle or answering the question above.)

(At this point I figure that there may have been a sufficient amount of physical distance on this page between the question and the answer, and certainly if you’ve read through this parenthetical material you’ve had a time gap which, as we are at words right now, that’s about 30 seconds of silent reading time or just under a minute if you’re annunciating it, so. . . .)

They are all members of SAG-AFTRA, the trade union for actors.

As such, they are all potentially affected by a recent agreement between SAG-AFTRA and Narrativ, which describes itself as “A Marketplace for Advertisers to Buy Talent Likeness.”

Note, not “Talent.” But a similitude of talent.

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Video: The Hives – “Rigor Mortis Radio”

Directed by Filip Nilsson. From The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, out now.

Remember when CGI was just CGI and not A.I.?

Or maybe the Hives are just really good dancers. It’s possible. Things are very groovy in Sweden and the people are very healthy and nimble. So you never know.

(Journalistic integrity spoiler: You, in fact, do know. The actual dancers — Alex Brown, Tom Hardiman, Connor Pearson, Reece Woodier, and Jacob Whawell — are credited in the video.)

I’ve seen the Hives in concert several times and their natural moves are impressive enough. Do they really need to employ deepfake technology to impress us even more? Maybe they do, because this video is fun and hilarious. And of course the song is great too.

But, like with all computer generated imagery, you find yourself looking for the glitches and cruising down the uncanny valley. It’s real looking enough, but not totally convincing, which makes it a little creepy. And, unsurprisingly, that creepiness factor works with the song’s lyrics.

You’ve never seen me look so good before
This silver lining and this golden glow
This shine, all mine
Looking like I’m fresh off an assembly line.

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Video: The Hard Quartet – “Rio’s Song”

Directed by Jared Sherbert. From The Hard Quartet, out October 4 on Matador.

The whole idea of an indie rock supergroup is kind of ridiculous but here we are. The Hard Quartet is Stephen Malkmus from Pavement and Matt Sweeney from Chavez, both on Matador Records, plus Drag City’s Emmett Kelly and Jim White. Put ’em together and what have you got? Skibidi-Bobbidi-Boo!

The song’s good (we love the 90s!) but the video’s great. Especially if you’re familiar with the Stones’ 1981 “Waiting On A Friend” promo. They went to great lengths to capture the vibe. Director Jared Sherbert told Pitchfork, “The original staircase is now surrounded by businesses, so we shot at the nearly identical staircase next door. The St. Marks Bar & Grill is gone, and, although there was another bar in the neighborhood with almost the exact same layout, International Bar was incredibly accommodating and encouraged us to shoot there, which just felt right for this. The apartment window with the guy daydreaming has changed, but a neighbor a few doors down let us use hers.”

Sweeney captures Mick’s aura without stooping to an impression while Malkmus totally nails Keith’s elegantly wasted swagger.

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One of the most famous paintings of Catalonian surrealist Salvador Dali is The Persistence of Memory, the work that prominently features melted clocks. Dali produced the painting when he was 26. He was to live until age 84 (d: 1989) and over his career was to produce more than 1,500 paintings with his “paranoiac-critical” method that is highly distinctive, combining the bizarre with hyper-realistic detail. (What is also somewhat bizarre is that The Salvador Dail Museum, which holds a massive amount of Dali’s work (in addition to paintings and drawings, he produced sculptures, photos, jewelry, and more), is located in St. Petersburg—not the one where The Hermitage is located, but the one where the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team plays.)

The Persistence of Memory has not only gotten a tribute from such popular shows as “Doctor Who” and “The Simpsons,” but there are countless posters of it that have adorned the walls of college dorms since the late 1960s, when various popular drugs caused the perception of things that resembled what Dali rendered. (One interesting aspect of these posters is that while they are typically the common 24 x 36 inches size, The Persistence of Memory measures just 9.5 x 13 inches (which is almost the size of an album cover: 12.4 x 12.4 inches).)

Dali was one of those artists who became as business-savvy as he was aesthetically capable, something of a forerunner for artists including Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst.

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Just prior to the pandemic I bought a new car.

During the process of dealing with reams of forms—and the classic “Give me a minute and let me see what I can do for you by talking to my boss”—at some point or ten I had to provide my email address.

(You sometimes hear people say, “I thought we were promised flying cars by now.” I’ll be considerably more realistic and say, “I thought we would be able to buy cars over the internet by now.” Hyundai announced last year that it was partnering with Amazon to sell cars, and there is a page on Amazon for doing that except that you can’t quite yet. “Later,” it indicates. But even when it is operative you’re not going to have an Amazon Prime driver deliver your new Kona; you will still have to go to the dealer for delivery. Which puts that whole flying car thing into perspective.)

Anyway. . .

As you will recall if you tried to buy a car when the pandemic was in full swing you faced not only prices that made the numbers on the window sticker look like a dream, but the availability of models, colors, trims, and other things was also something of a fantasy.

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David Bowie was not a member of the so-called “27 Club,” which consists of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse, all of whom died at age 27. Bowie died at 69. While the others arguably contributed to their demises—Jones, drowning; Hendrix asphyxiated on his vomit while on barbiturates; Joplin heroin overdose; Morrison heart failure thought to be a consequence of a heroin overdose; Cobain self-inflicted shotgun wound; Winehouse alcohol poisoning—Bowie didn’t die of what might be considered a “rock and roll death.” Rather, he died of a horrible disease, liver cancer.

Given the additional 42 years, Bowie certainly produced more music than any those others. He released 26 studio albums and nine live albums during his life. In addition, there were eight EPs, 128 singles, 46 compilation albums, and six box sets. Post-mortem there have been one studio album, 13 live albums, one soundtrack album, one compilation album, four EPs, and six box sets.

During their lives, Jones played on eight Stones albums; Hendrix released three studio albums and one live; Joplin four albums; Morrison six; Cobain three studio albums; Winehouse two studio albums, two live albums and a compilation album.*

So those six artists produced a combined total 30 albums during their short lives, or fewer than that Bowie produced during his life (35, just taking the studio and live albums into account).**

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The Victoria & Albert Museum in London had its start as the Museum of Manufactures in 1852.

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We have previously published articles by the Australian AIDS-and-biology researcher Cal Crilly, and here is yet another installment. Cal is someone who digs into scientific studies. He does biological detective work and finds gems that hide in plain view, things we don't normally understand and that even the experts do not see as they are not trained to put discordant facts together and question basic assumptions. What this new article tells us is that retroviruses - the same kind that are thought to cause immune deficiency or AIDS - are useful and necessary for our immune system to function correctly. That of course tends to leave the hypothesis of a viral causation of AIDS in grave trouble. I say 'hypothesis' because no one has proven, or even come close to a coherent explanation for, the mechanism of AIDS causation by HIV. How does a retrovirus that is by nature a benign particle, cause devastation of the immune system? Here we have several scientific studies published in the world's finest journals, which attest to the fact that retroviruses are part and parcel of the human organism, that they are needed to provide certain defensive capabilities against invaders, and that they are not pathogenic. So we might ask ourselves why HIV tests (thought to indicate the presence of a retrovirus) are still performed, and why doctors are still recommending the use of toxic anti-retroviral drugs to kill what, rather than a foreign invader, appears to be part of normal human metabolic processes. Cal Crilly lays it out for you, citing and linking the sources......

Cory Terry Died After Drinking Red Bull, $85 Million Wrongful Death Suit Claims, is the title of a recent article in the Huffington Post that reports on a rather unusual death. Cory Terry downed a Red Bull when he finished a basketball game and a few minutes later he died of a heart attack. Red Bull comes in different formulations, the dark blue normal and a - supposedly more healthy - 'diet' or sugar free version, which is the light blue one. To be sure, we don't know which one Terry preferred. Was it the normal or the diet version that killed him? Betty Martini believes it was 'diet' and that the damage was done by a specific ingredient: the aspartame that supplants sugar in the diet version. Betty says she knows of other cases of athletes having heart attacks after consuming soft drinks that contain aspartame. She has been trying to alert press and authorities to the dangers of the methanol-containing sweetener. I am reproducing her lengthy email here because she goes into considerable detail. If you love diet drinks or know someone who does, read this or let them read it. The data might save your life. Here goes Betty Martini......

After conducting "one of the most comprehensive risk assessments of aspartame ever undertaken", the European Food Safety Authority has released its verdict on 10 December 2013. The agency came to the conclusion that aspartame and its breakdown products are "safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure". The EFSA press release says that this was an important step forward in "strengthening consumer confidence in the scientific underpinning of the EU food safety system and the regulation of food additives". So the message seems to be that we should all just move on to other things. Leave aspartame alone and better yet - drink some of that "diet" Coke. But should we really? Could perhaps the power of money and influence behind big food have had a determining effect on that decision? We cannot be certain what exactly caused the EU regulator to give aspartame a clean bill of health rather than to acknowledge the sweetener's widely known dangers. Fact is - they disregarded every single study that showed aspartame to have adverse effects. Prof. Erik Millstone of the University of Sussex Science and Technology Policy Research Unit believes that EFSA has arrived at its conclusion by opportunistic interpretation of the studies that were reviewed. Most of the industry funded studies were given straight A's, while independent studies were - without exception - given an 'F' rating. Millstone says that "The EFSA Panel opportunistically accepted at face value almost all of the studies suggesting that aspartame is harmless, while entirely discounting every single study indicating that aspartame may be harmful, even though the quality, power and sensitivity of many of the studies that were discounted were markedly superior to those of the contrary studies deemed reliable."...

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Wenn jemand nicht aus, sondern gerade nach Afghanistan flieht, muss es ihm schon äußerst schlecht gehen. Verteidigungsminister zu Guttenberg hat also offenbar gerade ein Problem im heimischen politisch-akademischen Zweifrontenkrieg.

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