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I do like how the doc goes after the original Woodstcock, too. Most of what we think of as Woodstock is the movie and didn't actually happen. The original concert was a disaster as well, and it's a miracle more people didn't die or get seriously hurt. In that way, 99 is a perfect tribute to the original.

It's funny how 94 kinda gets off light: there was a show, people sort of liked it, nothing memorable happened (save the Green Day mud fight) and we went on about our lives. It's a grat Gen X metaphor, sort of this forgotten middle child, but it's not like it did anything to merit the attention either.

I'm sort of obsessed with Woodstock 99, which is a conflagration of some of the worst decsions ever made in pop culutre. If you were expecting a positive spin in a doc on the most infamous concert outside of Altamont, which killed the Woodstock brand and featured several deaths, mulitple sexual assaults, and a riot then... I don't know what to tell you. It was a disaster.

But y'all must have a different copy of the doc on your app because the one I watched was pretty clear that it was the organizers who were abolsutely at fault, and their attempts to defelct blame onto Limp Bizkit was sort of pathetic. They locked up a bunch of kids on asphalt in searing heat, covered the place in raw sewage, denied them water, prevented them from sleeping, and then provided the angriest music on the planet to amp them up more and... well, it was a pretty toxic mix.

I do think the DMX thing was weird, as he was about the only person who got out of there with his reputation increased. When he died, people referenced that show as one of his high points. That was a star making turn for him.

I do think the doc underplayed just how disastrous a decision it was to have techno going all night long on top of metal all day, as the noise bleed essentially made it impossible for anyone to sleep, even if they could on a literally shite-covered field. It was like being the subject of a psy-op campaign. Of course the kids snapped, everything pointed the to that, and the naked greed of the prmotoers, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone there, was truly appalling.

The funny thing is they pointed to Coachella as the New Way, and if you look at modern Coachella... well, it has a lot more in common with Woodstock 99 than its humble beginnings. Those big festival shows are ruthlessly greedy these days, though they've learned the lesson not to deny people water.

Team Zebraman.

This was MY heavy metal parking lot. I grew up going to shows at the Cap Center. It is distrubingly accurate.

Llorente is Spanish for "leg injury."

Turnstile.

The thruth is, we don't know what is going on in tha tlocker room, but we can make some educated guesses based upon the things Broski has posted from the media and quotes from the team.

And one of the biggest challenges for any international side is to act and play like a team. There's limited practice time and let's face it, your paycheck comes from your club. The national team is not your first loyalty, so the most important job of an international manager is somehow crafting a feeling of a team.

That's why this was a good suspension. If some of the players were asking for it in public, it at least hints at a fractured locker room, and you have to nip that sort of stuff in the bud. By suspending one of his best players for a crucial game, Berhalter can now honestly tell his team that no player is above the team. And while that stuff is sort of hokey, players eat that sort of stuff up.

If they play their cards right, this could be the turning point for the team where it all comes together. McKennie can come back into the fold, and the locker room can preach that it places nation over self. This can be that unifying moment where they become a team, and show their emotional commitment to the USMNT.

It's a gutsy move by Berhalter which could have blown up spectacularly.

Amazon had done this previously with books, updating editions on people's Kindles without permission. It wasn't to specifically target content, but the thought process behind it is sinister.

You have no control over your streaming library. You're just leasing it, at someone else's whim. Get physical media. You can then rip it to a hard drive and stream it locally with Plex. Books, music, movies... to quote an older show: We control the horizontal, we control the vertical.

BTW, Phil Hay of The Athletic's book on Bielsa at Leeds just dropped on Kindle. The early parts of "The Decline" are giving me hives.

It was simpyl an ugly match all the way around, but the good sign is the team never looked rattled and didn't play much on its back foot. They were miserable in the final third, a function of not having Pulisic and still searching for a striker, but they had the bulk of the chances in the game.

The USMNT won the xG battle 1.78-0.32. Now, xG isn't everything, but it is a good rough tool, and it show that the US dominated the game, but simply couldn't finish. They should have found that goal, and played well enough to do so. If they play like this throughout qualifying, I'm not worried.

Only Mexico won, so it's not like we lost pace on the standings. But it turns Canada and Honduras into more important games. You have to beat Canada at home, and Honduras is pretty much the same quaity as El Salvador, and it'll be on the road. You wanted to beat one of the two, now it has to be Honduras.

For a young squad missing its best player, this wasn't the worst result, and I do like how they played overall, save for the finishing. Who would've guessed we wouldn't be talking about Tim Ream?