Integrity in marketing

Pretty ironic...

(for Dumbass file)

Rev. Creighton Lovelace, of Danieltown Baptist Church in Forest City, NC, was trying to exalt the Bible, not insult Muslims.

Wow am I glad I'm dumb enough to swallow THAT...

In a statement, Lovelace said that after prayer and reflection, he now realizes that Muslims revere their holy book more than many Americans revere the Bible.

The statement said:

"Now I realize how offensive this is to them, and after praying about it, I have chosen to remove the sign. I apologize for posting that message and deeply regret that it has offended so many in the Muslim community. I remain committed to proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and renew my commitment to proclaiming that message in the true spirit of Christ's love."

Lovelace said the church sign's message has been replaced with a new one that reads: "Jesus said, 'I am the way.'"

Milagros means Miracles

A century ago, collectors of oddities would fill freak shows with "monsters" like this.

How fortunate she is to live in an age where attitudes have changed. And how fortunate for us all, as well...

Brian Walden

I recall an extraordinary character named Konni Zilliacus. He was always being expelled, or about to be expelled, from the Labour Party. For a time he was the MP for Gorton in Manchester and, though I didn’t share his views, I liked him. He’d met Lenin and was forever wedded to a Socialist Utopia. One evening tears trickled down his cheeks as he explained to me the beautiful vision that American capitalism had destroyed.

“Nobody should want possessions,” he said. “Whatever their faults, Lenin and Stalin never had any money. The Socialist dream was to produce a new man who loved society and was loved by society. Capitalism, in general, was no threat. It worked badly. But this Yankee capitalism has corrupted everybody. People want cars, clothes and gadgets. America has destroyed mankind’s future.”

Pterry

No words coming on my novel, so I've picked up one that won't piss me off today.

Here are great quotes found this morning while gliding through 100-odd pages of Soul Music by Terry Pratchett:

"IT'S AN INTERESTING FACT THAT MUSIC, BEING OF IT'S NATURE IMMORTAL, CAN SOMETIMES PROLONG THE LIFE OF THOSE INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH IT, he said. I'VE NOTICED THAT FAMOUS COMPOSERS IN PARTICULAR HANG ON FOR A LONG TIME. DEAF AS POSTS, MOST OF THEM, WHEN I COME CALLING. I EXPECT SOME GOD SOMEWHERE FINDS THAT VERY AMUSING. Death contrived to look disdainful. IT'S THEIR KIND OF JOKE*."

(* And, of course, one that misfires. Deafness doesn't prevent composers hearing the music. It prevents them hearing the distractions.)

- and -

"BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE RATHER STUPID AND WASTE THEIR LIVES. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT? HAVE YOU NOT LOOKED DOWN FROM THE HORSE AT A CITY AND THOUGH HOW MUCH IT RESEMBLED AN ANY HEAP, FULL OF BLIND CREATURES WHO THINK THEIR MUNDANE LITTLE WORLD IS REAL? YOU SEE THE LIGHTED WINDOWS AND WHAT YOU WANT TO THINK IS THAT THERE MUST BE MANY INTERESTING STORIES BEHIND THEM, BUT WHAT YOU KNOW IS THAT REALLY THERE ARE JUST DULL, DULL SOULS, MERE CONSUMERS OF FOOD, WHO THINK THEIR INSTINCTS ARE EMOTIONS AND THEIR TINY LOVES OF MORE ACCOUNT THAN A WHISPER OF WIND."

Both quotes are from Death himself, speaking to his Granddaughter.

I've always loved this book.

On a lighter note...

This. If I had money to throw away, I would seek these out at niche record stores across the country. There's a horrible art afoot here. And I could probably own dozens of them for about twenty bucks altogether, tops.

Hotel Fucking Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda has to be one of the most devastating films I've ever seen. This is not a review. It's a reaction. Don Cheadle got screwed. Jamie Foxx should have walked off the stage and just handed Cheadle the Best Actor Oscar. (But when did the Academy ever have a clue about talent?) I just can't shake everything I just saw. I spent much of the movie trying to put myself in this man's shoes...and realized how small my feet truly are.

I have always been something of a History and Geography and Social Sciences junkie. When the butchering of the Tutsis happened in Rwanda in '94, I lost the last of my faith in Western Politics. No one who can sit idly by and watch this happen without doing anything deserves to have any power.

This movie, unfortunately, was exactly as engaging as I knew it would be, fueled by a story that rips at your soul. It's Schindler's list with the same monstrous villain, on a different continent, in a different time...but still mired in the same madness. You don't watch this movie. You survive it. And you appreciate what you have, even if you think it isn't much. Just amazing.

Whoopi Goldberg: Mexican Samurai

Or, from the top...

Max Ehrmann

Sent just now by a friend on Planet Florida:

This was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann. Simple, positively reinforcing, and well placed counsel that applies no matter the religious background of the listener. Still amazingly refreshing and uplifting if you let it be. (The poem apparently made the rounds in the 60's as some sort of hippie street wisdom, when - as the story goes - Crane read it on a street poster and decided to record it. The musical background was by Fred Werner, who found the poster in a Los Angeles store. It won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording in 1971. (The first recording of the poem was by the UK group Every Which Way in 1970 as "Child of the Universe". National Lampoon parodied this on the album Radio Buffet as"Deteriorata." It starts: "You are a freak of the universe. You have no right to exist.") My dad won the 45 rpm record of this from WGBS in Miami when I was a child.

Desiderata“Things To Be Desired”
-- Max Ehrmann, 1927 --

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Farewell, Pretoria

Interesting. The South African Capital is moving much closer to changing it's name to Tshwane. The old name comes from Boer settler Andries Pretorius, and obviously still smacks of apartheid. Tshwane is the name of a pre-colonial local chief and means "we are the same", according to the BBC.

I like.

Lord Stanley, Earl Of Preston

If there had been an NHL season this year...two teams would be facing off this week, starting the best two weeks the sport has every year.

No league, no season, no Cup, no Champ. No fair.

I call Five For Fighting on every party on both sides. Sit your asses down and give me back my NHL.

Prank Art.

Brilliant.

From the AP:

LONDON -- This image released by the British Museum shows a hoax cave painting of a primitive man pushing a supermarket trolley which was on display in the British Museum. The work was planted by an anonymous "art terrorist" called Banksy and museum staff were made aware of it after he put a message on his website, saying that the 10in by 6in rock "had remained in the collection for quite some time." This is not the first time Banksy has stuck fake objects to gallery walls and waited to see how long it takes before curators notice. (05/23/05 AP Photo/British Museum/HO)

TV Weather Will Never Be The Same

heh.

ESPN Spelling Bee Promos

Genius. Absolute genius.

Exceptional creative lesson.

Phil Spector

I'm not entirely sure what he's going for here...but for the sake of his neck, I hope he achieves it sooner rather than later...

Warren Ellis is referring to it as "Phil Spector's Holy Wig Of Innocence"...

Frosted Flakes Spokesman On Ice

The beloved Thurl Ravenscroft...voice of Tony The Tiger, and singer of the "You're A Mean One, Mister Grinch" song...is dead today at 91.

My daily work discussion group has been chatting about it this afternoon. Best comment so far comes from one of our guys in Eastern Michigan:

Favorite Tony Tiger Moment: I grew up in Battle Creek, home of Kelloggs. We held a debate tournament in High School called "The Cereal Bowl" and we went to Kellogg's HQ to get the Tony Tiger outfit, so Tony could hand out the awards. We walked out of the building with my friend carrying Tony's body in a plastic bag and me carrying his head. We were passed on the steps my a mother and her son (approx: five years old). The kid points and says "Hey Mom! Look! Tony the Tiger." My friend shakes the bag a little and says "Yep. We just killed him."

I wonder whatever happened to that kid.....

Wormholes...

...have a wormhole.

Fat Smokers Should Pay More

A new opinion poll, released in Canada, provided by a good friend in Kelowna, British Colombia.

Looks like I quit smoking fat just in time...

JC: note to self

Johnny Cash Box Set Delayed
Rare CD Package From June Carter Cash Also Late
POSTED: 7:38 am EDT May 24, 2005
UPDATED: 8:08 am EDT May 24, 2005
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The box sets from Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash will be a little later than promised.

Columbia/Legacy has moved the street dates for "Johnny Cash - The Legend" and "June Carter Cash - Keep On the Sunny Side: Her Life In Music" to August 2, bumping it back from the July date promised earlier.

"Johnny Cash - The Legend" celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Man In Black's recording career, in 107 tracks on four CD's.

Carter Cash's two-CD set delivers the first-ever comprehensive overview of her 64-year career span.

The 40 tracks tap into rare 78's, 45's and album cuts that were originally on half-a-dozen labels, in addition to Columbia.

Mermaids

Found through some link somewhere. Innerestin'...

Morons

I just made a particularly damn fine looking sandwich for tomorrow's lunch, and as I threw away the empty meat wrapper...I noticed the wording at the top:

98% Fat Free...A Good Source Of Protein!

Really? MEAT is a good source of Protein? How have I not heard about this?

How stupid can one society actually become? How hard-up for nutritional information can you possibly be where you are forced to include something we all learned in Kindergarten?

Going back to The Hunt For Red October now. All hail Spike TV...

edison hate future

Personalized Google Starts

Sell a little more of your soul to Google. Come celebrate the evil.

Like MyYahoo, but smaller. And Googler.

http://www.google.com/ig

Alternate Ending For Empire

Emailed to me recently. I've seen it before: it's at least three years old...but worth repeating:

A furious light sabre duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKESKYWALKER toward the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader chopsoff Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Lukebacks away. He looks 'round, but realizes there's nowhere to go butstraight down.
DARTH VADER: "Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father."
LUKE: "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!"
DARTH VADER: "No! I am your father!"
LUKE: "No, that's not true! That's impossible."
DARTH VADER: "Search your feelings; you know it to be true."
LUKE: "NO!"
DARTH VADER: "Yes, it is true and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?"
LUKE: "Threepio?"
DARTH VADER: "Yes, Threepio, I built him when I was seven years old."
LUKE: "No."
DARTH VADER: "Seven years old!! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp."
LUKE: "I destroyed your precious Death Star!"
DARTH VADER: "When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!"
LUKE: "Well, it's not my fault."
DARTH VADER: "Oh, here we go. 'Poor me, my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday, boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith...waahhh wahhh! ''
LUKE: "Shut up."
DARTH VADER: "You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi knights!"
LUKE: "I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon!"
DARTH VADER: "Oh, for the love of the Emperor, 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer, right here baby!"
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step toward it.
DARTH VADER: "I was wrong. You're not my kid. I don't know whose you are,but you sure ain't mine."
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.
Darth Vader looks after him.
DARTH VADER: "And get a haircut!"

Sith Happens, part deux

Finally saw it. Nicely done. Great out.

Internal debate going on as to whether or not it's better than E5. Hayden actually tried to ACT in this one.

Didn't do real well...but hey, he tried...

Class

A little over 7 months ago, I watched the Pistons and Pacers display the worst of sportsmanship, when a fight went into the stands.

A little over an hour ago, I watched the Pistons and Pacers display the best of sportsmanship, when...with 15 seconds to go and the Detroit victory assured...Larry Brown called a timeout.

He called the timeout so he...and his Pistons...could walk out onto the floor and applaud Reggie Miller, who had just left the floor in his final game in the NBA.

I dislike both teams (Go Bulls) and have a begrudging respect for each. I've never been a Miller fan, but his career deserved to be applauded.

The fact that Coach Brown recognized this gives me a little hope for The Pro Athlete. Not much. But a little.

And he shall be Livan. And he shall be a good man.

POSTGAME ALERT
May 19, 2005
Milwaukee 2, Washington 3 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Winning pitcher - Livan Hernandez (7-2)
Losing pitcher - Victor Santos (1-4)
SV - Chad Cordero (10)
Washington Record: (23-18)

My Nationals are creeping back up, little by little, puttin' some W's together.

Nice.

Even nicer that it's partially due to the same pitcher I cheered on from under my Marlins cap in '97.

The Dark Knight Returns Some More

Caught the special "15 Minute Sneak Peek At Batman Returns" at the end of Smallville tonight.

Wow.

Since I've already been in full geek mode today (I'm not alone, given the fact that Episode Three premieres in 46 minutes...) let me dive in all the way:

• It appears that this story focuses on the Detective Angle, which was always my favorite, and was missing in the other flicks.
• The Scarecrow looked awesome...and I'm drooling at the thought that HE'S a/the villain for this flick. Very underused nutjob. Always good fun.
• Gary Oldman as Gordon looked pretty good in the brief scene he was in.
• Michael Caine as Alfred. Liam Neeson as Bruce's mysterious sen-sei. Morgan Freeman as...as...hell, I don't know. Lucius? That would make sense.
• And I coulda swore that was Katie Holmes.

This movie looks like it's passed worthwhile and collected $200...with tons o' hotels on The Big Two...

And YES I know I've fallen prey to bullshit marketing tactics as a faceless, soulless corporation uses it's TV holdings to shill for it's major motion picture and whet the appetites of the exact audience they want to put in the seats.

And I don't care. It's fucking Batman. Shut up.

Today's sign of the impending apocolypse is brought to you by Sylvester Stallone.

Rocky VI is in the works.

Yes, really.

Just go.

Probably not the most reliable source in the world...but the mere thought was disturbing enough to post...

Bitchin'

Found this on Fark...must review later when I have time to play. Antarctic Ice Links, too.

This is fantastic.

I love the concept, if nothing else, of what this guy is doing with his blog.

And the title.

FHL Update

The Girl is utterly defeated. OK, so maybe she's barely defeated. But the undefeated season remains solvent either way. The Girl had a stretch of bad luck in the 2nd, and I had good luck. Enough to go up by 7 and never look back.

Afterwards, she whupped me in an exhibition game. And then The Boy did. All three kids (myself included) go to bed happy tonight.

But she damn near stopped me. A few miscues lining up her shots are all that had me on top of that game.

To hear her tell it...it was the band-aid on her left hand.

Defiant to the end, that one...

Our Daily Dead

Rather bizarre little website sent to me by my brah, Steveo.

http://www.ourdailydead.com/

FHL Update

Well...The Girl had an off-night. I beat her unstoppable Florida Panthers with the Devils, like, 25-9. This was after narrowly losing 9-8 in OT to The Boy (Sweden) with England. Before that, My Czechs had beaten his Canadian team. I forget the score.

After they went to bed, it was back to the real season. Avs are now 27-0 after shelling New Jersey 30-1. No trades dangled in front of me after the game. Shame, too: I would have entertained a good one. There's a few guys on the 3rd Line I could stand to get rid of.

Even more enjoyable to me right now on Playstation, however, is the effect Spyro is having on The Beloved Wife. The kids introduced her to the game and it's like crack for her. She'd play it 24 hours straight if she didn't have other stuff to do...just like I would do with hockey, I suppose.
Last night, I tried to get past one certain part of the Spyro game that was giving her fits. It was so bloody irritating I had to walk away, cussing like a sailor, my hands shaking like Beyonce's ass. I was so wired and so pissed off that I didn't get to sleep until after 4am. Yipe.

There's a lot of shit going on that has me highly irritated, and I've decided not to write about any of it. I'll find my own solutions without giving the problems any credence whatsoever.

This is so wrong.

Everyone knows that if you're going to start teaching them early...you should do so with a REAL beer. (sigh)

Just DISCovered

...while reading through some old email, and finally looking over three months worth of Terry Pratchett Fan Club messages...this website.

I'd really like to try the beers.

Further: http://www.discworldstamps.com/

And:

Review: Once More* With Footnotes Reviewed by Jason Anthony...not me, finding it's way to me through Discworld Monthly. I'm posting it here so I can find it when I'm ready to try and order it.

I say unto thee...Oook.

Once More* With Footnotes was created as a Guest of Honour book for Terry at the Noreascon Convention in September 2004 and as such is only available from the Nesfa web site located here.

The book is thus far the most complete compilation of Terry's short stories ever published. There are still a couple of notable omissions, which I suspect may be due to copyright reasons, namely Night Dweller and History in the Faking. The book also features lots of short pieces of prose written by Terry for various and diverse entities. Pieces range from The Story of Thud via forewords for Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and The Wyrdest Link to the excellent No Worries that is basically an Australian tour report from the author's perspective (with only the names changed to protect the innocent) and A Word About Hats. I expect the short stories will be of most interest to Terry's fans and it is great to see so many in one place. I suspect many fans will have read one or two of Terry's short stories (we included Incubus in full in Issue 6 way back in October 1997) and will have heard of a couple more. Seeing so many in one location reminds us just how prolific a writer Terry is.

My first desire upon receiving the book was to read The Hades Business (Terry's first published short story, written when he was only 13). Terry's introduction leads us to believe he is quite embarrassed by the cliches used within it (but I guess any professional will look back at something produced over 40 years ago with slight trepidation). When reading this story you have to keep reminding yourself that it was written by a 13 year old as part of a school project. I wish I had half the skill now that Terry had at 13. I have read stories by established and much older authors that can't match the quality of the writing. I did find the Discworld short stories, The Sea and Little Fishes, Troll Bridge and Theatre of Cruelty, more enjoyable that the others, mainly because that universe is already well defined leaving Terry more room for the story. Whist I enjoyed most of the short stories, I think Terry's work is much better suited to full novels, as this appears to give him much more room to expand his ideas.

This book is a must for any fan. You could spend several years and lots of money trying to track down half the material in this book. Which is why it represents such excellent value for money.

It's time.

You know it to be true.

It is time to create a maximum driving age in this country.

If one more old person tries to kill me with a car, I'm gonna be in jail after my response, I just know it.

Uzbekistan

BBC Breaking News Alert

Snipers reportedly fire on crowds in the Uzbek city of Andijan, after gunmen storm a prison freeing hundreds of inmates.For more details: http://www.bbcnews.com


Not nearly as sad, but still unfortunate, is that most of the people I come in contact with on a daily basis don't know where this is, and couldn't care less about the misfortunes facing these people...

Obligatory comment about Episode III, Part One (pre-viewing)

The TV ads...now that we're only a week out...have stepped up in frequency. Each one looks really, really, really fucking good.

Hockey needs to come back

Soooo...great joke overheard today.:

A lady walks into a tattoo parlor. She's been told that the artist is the best. Being a HUGE Wayne Gretzky fan, she requests that he put Wayne's face on her right inner thigh. After an hour of work, the artist finishes and shows the lady her work, "This doesn't look anything like Gretzky," she says. He takes out a picture of Wayne and compares them... "See, they look just alike." The lady does not agree. So, the artist agrees to do Wayne on the other thigh for free.She comes back the next day to have her left thigh done. He does the tattoo and excitingly shows to her. "This one doesn't look like Wayne Gretzky either!" The artist insists that this one is identical to the picture of Wayne that she brought. To solve the debate, the artist calls his friend, a huge hockey fan, over to decide. The friend comes over and the lady lifts her dress to show the tattoos. "Hmmm, I'm not sure who the wingers are, but the center is definitely Todd Bertuzzi."

Eyescan

From my friend Laura.

The future is now. Eyescanning begins at an airport.

Muhahahaha...

http://www.local6.com/news/4479554/detail.html

Love, Big Brother.

From Jeff D.

http://footballguys.com/05bang_easyrider.htm

Classic. Turn up the speakers.

FHL Update

My Avs are a perfect 25-0. Still winning by an average of 15 goals. Next time I do this, I'll do it on the All-Pro setting instead...but I'll run this season out as-is so I can experience a perfect season. I am now unbeatable with this team at this setting. Not even The Girl can crush me with this lineup.

I'm leading the league in scoring, The Boy is in 2nd place.

Sakic was back from a shattered heel, played ten minutes, was reinjured, will be out another 6-7 weeks. Mighty Pete still out for the season. I'm playing without two of the best players in the game.

Forsberg, in fact, is injury prone in every game, no matter what roster is loaded. Methinks the people at EA Sports hate him or something...

Listening to the new Styx album

All classic rock covers, comes out tomorrow.

Thoughts:

• Now that Stevie Ray Vaughan has been dead for over ten years, it's time to finally pass the law making it illegal for anyone to cover Jimi. Period.
• A new version of "Blue Collar Man" is unnecessary, thanks.
• I Am The Walrus. No, sorry, you really aren't...
• The Blind Faith cover is one of the best things these guys have done in the last two decades.
• The Allman Brothers cover ain't bad, either.
• Sticking with mostly obscure songs doesn't make you any safer from ridicule.

That is all.

We now return you to whatever you were doing. Or, with any luck at all, whomever...

Belmont Shore

Soon I will answer the age old question...can you write with great detail about a place you've never been to, based solely on research?

Welcome to scenic Belmont Shore in Long Beach. If you've been there, you're one up on me, but most of my new alleged novel will take place there.

Sith Happens

Blood?

Excellent.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4513837.stm

Maybe it'll be Jar Jar's. Flowing in mighty, sticky rivers.

And while we're at it, the Mighty Kevin Smith saw it, too. He gives us the fanboy run-down. Read all about it at his blog. And then check out the rest of his website, for he is The Man.

From Michael S.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/urbanlegends.html

That is the worst description of the scream in the Ohio Players “rollercoaster.”

You would think by now that people would be smarter than that. Never mind. What am I thinking?

Stupid. Idiots.

They're The Creamiest

The boys from Cream are back, if only briefly.

Clapton, Bruce, and Baker (listed in diplomatic order, choosing no sides) played their first show of the 4-date London Reunion last night.

If you're a fan (and you should be), here's the set-list:

• I'm So Glad
• Spoonful
• Outside Woman Blues
• Pressed Rat And Warthog (one of my all-time favorite titles)
• Sleepy Time Time
• I Feel Free (my 9 year-old son's favorite Cream song)
• Badge
• Politician
• Rollin' And Tumblin'
• Stormy Monday
• Born Under A Bad Sign
• We're Going Wrong
• Crossroads
• Sitting On Top Of The World
• White Room
• Toad
• Sunshine Of Your Love (Encore)

Fan freakin'-tastic. Conspicuous in it's absence is "Strange Brew", but then again, could Eric really still hit those high notes? No "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" either...

I wish they would do more than four reunion shows. Hopefully they're using this as a warm-up for something more. It would be neat to hear the three of them after so many years. Maybe there will be a DVD. Next best thing, I suppose.

I'm too young to remember them as an active band, but I owned Disraeli Gears at the age of 13 and consider it partly responsible for my interest in music.