Refugee

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In this day and age, does it really matter?

I take the tambourine, but don't hit it against your upper thigh, you should see the bruise you get!

I like Whoopi. She's controversial without being so loud. Does anyone ever watch The View? I'm curious, what do you think of it?

Get a seat belt for your chair when tickets go on sale, lol. :045:

Ellyn's gonna pass out, Mark and Bruce....hahahaha!

I saw their acoustic tour a few years ago, they were fantastic! If you get the chance to see them, do so.

^ Lol!

Wait....a band picture!

I like this one, mainly because you can see my beloved Ron. :heart: I guess this photographer didn't realize it's Tom Petty AND the Heartbreakers. Pffft. :095:

WASHINGTON -- In a surprise twist, Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) has left open, albeit slightly, the possibility that he will not resign from the Senate if he succeeds in his fight to clear his name of allegations that he solicited sex in a Minnesota airport restroom in June. "Sen. Craig still intends to resign," his spokesman, Dan Whiting, said in an interview Tuesday night. "That being said, Sen. Craig wants it clear he's fighting these charges, both in Minneapolis and in the Senate Ethics Committee, and if the wheels of justice are able to turn quick enough, meaning before Sept. 30, he may -- and I emphasize may -- not resign. "At this point, it's a very small door that he's left open," Whiting added. Craig pleaded guilty last month to disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. He was arrested in June by an undercover police officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men's restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. On Saturday, he announced that he intended to resign his Senate seat by the end of the month, to the relief of fellow Republicans who feared that the scandal would hurt the party in next year's elections. But Craig, who has denied that he did anything wrong and has said he regretted his guilty plea, has hired lawyers to see whether he can reopen the case, withdraw the plea and clear his name. Earlier Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had expressed relief that "the episode is over." "We'll have a new senator from Idaho at some point in the next month or so, and we're going to move on," he said, eager to put the focus on other subjects of importance to Republicans. McConnell said he had spoken to Craig last week, before the Idaho senator made his resignation statement, and believed it to be a "firm decision." In announcing his resignation, Craig, 62, said his fight to clear his name would be an "unwarranted and unfair distraction of my job and for my Senate colleagues." But on Sunday he received encouragement from one of those colleagues. "I'd like to see him fight the case because I think he could be vindicated," Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday." Specter, a former district attorney in Philadelphia, said that if Craig had sought a trial instead of pleading guilty to a reduced charge, "I believe he would be exonerated." The undercover officer said Craig used signals -- tapping his foot and sliding his hand under the restroom stall divider -- that indicated a desire for sex. Along with pleading guilty to disorderly conduct, Craig paid $575 in fines and fees and was given one year's probation. If he remains in the Senate, Craig would face an embarrassing Senate Ethics Committee investigation. Additionally, Senate Republicans have stripped him of his leadership positions on several committees. Craig, who has represented his state in the House and the Senate for 27 years, did not return to the Capitol on Tuesday to cast votes on Congress' first day back from its summer recess. He has hired two prominent Washington lawyers -- Stanley Brand, a former House counsel who frequently represents legislators in ethics matters, for the Senate investigation, and Billy Martin, who represented NFL quarterback Michael Vick in his recent dog-fighting case as well as former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky, in the efforts to reopen the Minnesota court case. Whiting said the senator was preparing to file papers with the ethics committee contending that it was "unprecedented" for the panel to consider a complaint based on a misdemeanor. On Tuesday morning, two of Craig's three children appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" to defend their father. His daughter, Shae Howell, said many of Craig's colleagues "made their decision and formed their opinion about it without even talking to my dad." Mike Craig added: "We know who he is, and we stand behind him."

Metallica, Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Waits are among the diverse acts set to play the 21st annual edition of Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit. The shows--which typically feature acoustic sets--are set for Oct. 27 and 28 at their usual home, the San Francisco Bay Area's Shoreline Amphitheater. Tickets for both dates go on sale Sunday (9/9), according to promoter Live Nation. The full lineup for both shows also include Eddie Vedder with Flea and Jack Irons; Tom Waits with Kronos Quartet; John Mayer; Tegan and Sara; and Regina Spektor. The concerts benefit the Bridge School, which serves severely speech-impaired children in the San Francisco Bay Area. Young's wife, Pegi, and Jim Forderer--both parents of children with severe speech and physical impairments--co-founded the school in 1986 along with Dr. Marilyn Buzolich.

DANCE = Dana Asked Nancy Choose Ellyn :icon_arrow: JELLO

I wonder...what's next?

Strange Days with Michael Wincott who also starred in..

get everyone stoned.:028:

A great recipe from my 'sis'.

LOL! How do some people get when they can't have what they want? Prison

Quadrophenia Hotel California Damn The Torpedoes Name your favorite musicals

Tell us your choice.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ask you - Won’t you please join our band? The instrument choices you have are: the kazoo, the cowbell, or the tamborine. Which will you choose?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like him. Could never understand why Dean Martin bothered with him, Dean was the talent, not Jerry.

The European leg of the 2008 KTGC tour is set to include the following countries: Austria/Belgium/Bulgaria/Croatia/CzechRepublic/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Greece/ Hungary/Holland/Italy/Luxembourg/Norway/Poland/Portuga/Russia/Serbia/Spain/Sweden/ Switzerland/Turkey/United Kingdom/Ireland At the request of promoters, actual dates/cities will be announced in batches. Ticket presales will be organised through our sister site at www.markknopfler.com. The first of the presales for shows in Holland will begin on Sept 5th until Sept 7th. Presale tickets will only be available to VIP members. There is no cost for VIP membership but you will need an account in order to participate in this presale. If you don’t already have an account, go to www.markknopfler.com and sign up today. Then, to ensure you have a smooth and speedy checkout, we suggest setting up your Express Checkout information before the day of the sale. The first dates to be offered are: 30/03/08 - Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam. Presale starts 5th Sept, 7 pm CEST Further info re-dates will be announced as they are released so be sure to check in regularly to mknews and markknopfler.com 31/03/08 - Ahoy, Rotterdam. Presale starts 5th Sept, 7 pm CEST

Complexity … Patti Scialfa used family life as inspiration. OF ALL the subjects Patti Scialfa might consider probing on her third album, you would think her marriage would be low on the list. For one thing, fans have been scouring her songs for Bruce Springsteen-related subtext since she released her first solo record, Rumble Doll, in 1993 - tiresome for an artist who has had much to say about her own eventful life. And few would expect the public dissection of a relationship from the happily married wife of a rock god. But Play It as It Lays, a weary, emotion-rich record, to be released on Saturday, is pointedly about Scialfa's 16-year marriage to Springsteen. And she does not shrink from saying so. "My records always deal with a question I have that I don't know how to answer," she says in the living room of the couple's 1720s farmhouse in New Jersey. "The question this time was about the conflicts and the complexities in a long-term relationship, the real things that go on. "Everybody knows what the good stuff is in a long-term relationship, and so for me it was more compelling and interesting to go into the areas where the conflicts are," she says. "I find those things fascinating to write about; complexities, the darker stuff, the things that are under the rug, in the back room and in the cellar. It was a little scary, I have to say." What comes through on the record, though, is not callowness but boldness, a determination to get right her many roles: Scialfa, 54, is the mother of the couple's three teenagers as well as a solo artist and a member of the E Street and the Seeger Sessions bands. The most discernible theme is a sense of domestic ennui. "It's easy to dull down a bit, to knee-jerk into cliches, when you're raising a family," Scialfa says, commenting on the opening song, Looking for Elvis, which is about personal reinvention. Scialfa took 11 years between her first two albums, Rumble Doll (produced by Mike Campbell) and 23rd Street Lullaby in 2004, because of obligations with her family and with the E Street Band, and she regrets not touring to support Rumble Doll. ("I saw that I had three kids in diapers. It was a huge transition - and I derailed myself," she says.) The making of Play It as It Lays, which Scialfa will tour next year, was put on hold because of scheduling with the Seeger Sessions Band. She recorded the album at home; her backup band, the Whack Brothers, consisted of the co-producer Steve Jordan (percussion, acoustic guitar), Willie Weeks (bass), Nils Lofgren (guitars, pedal steel guitar, dobro), Cliff Carter (keyboards) and Springsteen (Hammond B3 organ, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, harmonica). Jordan's presence grounded her, she says. "Steve I've known since I was 19. I needed to be surrounded by people who gave me my autonomy, do you know? Who reflected back my own path. That was important." That quest for autonomy is understandable. Scialfa is still subject to cries of "Bruuuuuce!" when she takes the stage, and she often crosses paths with fans who want to assign Springsteen a larger role in her music. "People say: 'Oh, did he write that? It sounds like something he wrote,"' she says. Forging an identity apart from Springsteen's can be an uphill battle, as any number of New Jersey rock artists pelted by requests for his songs have discovered. Scialfa had a final word of advice for them: "Just say no." Play It As It Lays is released on Saturday

DALLAS — Police said Tuesday they aren't pursuing charges against a homeowner who shot and killed a former member of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians who tried kicking in his door in the middle of the night. The case will be turned over to a grand jury that will decide whether the homeowner will face charges. Dallas police Sgt. Larry Lewis said the shooting appears to fall under state law permitting deadly force as self-defense. Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, 34, was inebriated Monday when the wife of his girlfriend's neighbor began screaming around 4 a.m. that someone was breaking in, police said. After telling Albrecht to get away, the husband fired his handgun through the door and shot Albrecht in the head, police said. Albrecht had been fighting with his girlfriend. "He yelled several verbal warnings, 'I'll shoot! I'll shoot!'," Lewis said. "From what we gather, he fired near the top of the door, hoping he would scare the person away." The homeowner, whose identity wasn't released, was not arrested. The shooting came two days after the enactment of a new state law, nicknamed the "Castle Doctrine," that gives Texans a stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, cars and workplaces. The bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. Lewis said he read over the Castle Doctrine on Tuesday, but said the homeowner appeared to be protected under another deadly force law already on the books. Under Chapter 9 of the state penal code, a person can protect their property with deadly force to "prevent the other's imminent commission ... of criminal mischief during the nighttime." "I think (the shooting) falls most under Chapter 9," Lewis said. Jerry Dowling, a criminal justice professor at Sam Houston State University who has studied Castle Doctrine, agreed. "I suspect this won't get very far," he said. Albrecht, who went by his middle name, had been a keyboard player for the New Bohemians since 1999, according to the band's Web site. He also played keyboard and guitar and sang for Sorta, named in 2006 as the best local music act by the Dallas Observer. Albrecht played several times with Brickell's husband, Paul Simon. He also played with Texas musician Charlie Sexton, a renowned guitarist. "We are all completely devastated by the news of Carter's death, and obviously still quite in shock," Brandon Aly, drummer for New Bohemians, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Danny Balis, Albrecht's roommate and fellow member of the Dallas rock band Sorta, said the shooter lived next door to Albrecht's girlfriend. Albrecht had been fighting with his girlfriend, authorities said. His death stunned friends and those who knew him in the North Texas music community. The idea of him banging on a door in the middle of the night seems out of character for a man known to be friendly and quiet, friends said. "He is not a violent person," said Carrie Garcia, Sorta's manager. "He is cool as a cucumber, shy, always wanted to make a joke in a situation that may be a little tense."