Off topic, sorry to get away from Bono's trollin' (oh Bono!) but I am bummed I can't make a thread about Bon Jovi's daughter!! Fix the board ASAP!

She O.D. on heroin & was arrested!

Unfortunately early reports indicate her father is still alive making music..

well the prob is

but i do think the show might've been better had it relegated Atlantic City & focused more on either NY or Chicago, kinda reversing the plots. of course they'd have had to change the name... & the source material...
i mean it's only now, after near 3 season, that i'm actually starting to care about Atlantic City. tbh the only real thing i cared about that city before was the awesome Boss song. but i gotta admit i'm starting to get a little more interested in it & appreciate more of what it took for these guys to build a city. & as a metaphor for the American model i do think the show is finally starting to pay-off. i really didn't think it was going to w/the terrible kelly macdonald-heavy first season. i thought it was a p poor show, w a lot of waste. but very gradually it is winning me over, slightly. it's still ridiculously slow, but it is getting under my skin more & more..

re: Cromwell/24 - i think he was badly let down by the writers of that show. like a lot of the characters he simply had to repeat his plot lines over & over. it's problem that really plagued the show in season 5 & 6 (y'think season 5 is great, & i did too when i watched it at the time, but i went back to it there recently & it really drags - e.g. sean astin just kept running around into the same problems for like 6 episodes in a row, saying the same lines over & over w/the same scowl)
but hey, credit to them : peter weller season 5, cromwell 6 & voight in 7 is a great run of the coolest badass baddie americans you'll be likely to find.

i didn't cite other examples cause i didn't want to be the asshole that rains on people's parade & craps on their favourite songs!

Halfway There does sound like one of those wretched Audioslave ballads.

hit's aren't my problem. i already explained my problem - i went in w/expectations that thayil was gonna have a bigger influence & expected some monstrous, epic psych jams, i was (half) expecting a slightly different direction. instead, & i mean i'm thrilled w/what we got, we got a (nearly) streamlined SG album, nearly 'all killer/no filler'. i just wanted a little more unrestrained monumental psych epicness. fuck the hits (tho i don't really mean that of course, cause if there was A Day I Tried to Live on here i'd be jizzing my pants like the rest of you guys). but like i say, hopefully next time they expand the formula cuase this is a great first step back. & when i say expand the formula i don't mean the pedestrian problem-rock of DOTU, i mean let thayil loose & rip out some Hawkwind influenced freakouts!

i thought One More Shot was weak piss
Doom was p sweet, but the first time i heard it i gotta admit i thought "wtf is this primal scream or someone doing another stones pastiche?" but it did grow on me instantly. one more shot on the other hand is just crap.

i maybe would go and see them again live. seen them a couple & barely remember those shows at all
fucking great nights tho. brilliant party.

there is filler on here defo - halfway there immediately springs to mind, & maybe a couple of tunes surrounding it: the album does sag in the middle. coulda done w/less but longer songs.
hopefully they make an even better one next time round. they are ridiculously, shockingly close to the perfection they attained thru '88-'94, they just need to cut loose & drop the soppy shit.