** Official June Chat Thread: The Flush **

[Cry Me A River]

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Anyways, I'm looking for a play list for this drive, so post like a list of 12-15 songs that you think would be good for making a long drive and that work well together in a play list.


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Ryan,

I have a bunch of killer driving CD's. I'll see if I can put my hands on them or if not poke through my hard drive and come up with a list. But first a couple killer suggestions (Okay, 1 killer suggestion, and 1 suggestion that pretty amusing the first couple times through but gets kinda old).

1 - I've made at least a couple CD's of TV and Movie Theme Songs. This can be a lot of fun if you pick the right themes - Like The A-Team and Star Trek and Goldfinger. Doesn't have huge, huge replay value but fun, particularly with friends, signing along.

2 - Google Old Time Radio or OTR. Wikipedia also have some good info/links. From the 30's to 50's, radio hosted a huge variety of drama, comedy and variety shows. This stuff was the television of it's day and there's prolly as much of this material as there are tv shows. If you're familiar with books on tape it's kinda like that, but way, way better. The production values are often very, very high with full casts, excellent sound fx and often big time movie stars of the day.

A lot of it is obviously really dated, but some of it holds up really, really well. Particularly if you have any interest in old movies or television. This stuff absolutely eats up the miles! A handfull of episodes and suddently you're through two or three hours of driving without even noticing it. If you're driving alone, at night, put on some of the spookier stuff and no worries about falling asleep at the wheel.

I personally only go for the dramas (I find most of the comedies really dated YMMV). Most of this material is in the public domain, btw, so you don't even have to feel guilty about downloading it (and I can post links!)

Here are some suggestions (again Google is your friend):

X Minus One and Dimension X These two series dramatised science fiction stories from Astounding Science Fiction and Galaxy Magazine. If you love golden age science fiction, this series is for you.

This [censored] is AMAZING!!! If the names Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov, Williamson, Pohl, Leiber and Sheckley mean anything to you, these series will blow you away.

Get them here:

http://www.archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

Some of my favorite episodes "A Pail of Air" (Leiber), "A Gun for Dinosaur" (L. Sprague DeCamp), The Cave of Night, "Lulungamena" (Gordon R. Dickson - A Dorsai! story).


Suspense is a thriller anthology. This was the 24 or Lost of it's day. Awesome production values with huge, huge stars. Perhaps most famous for its dramatisation of "Sorry Wrong Number".

Some episodes are horror, mystery, crime, drama, SUSPENCE!

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/SUSPENSE

Gunsmoke is one of the great western dramas that later made the jump to television and ran forever. Great writing, acting, production values. If you like westerns in the least, you will love Gunsmoke.

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Gunsmoke



The 70's saw a bit of a rivival in radio drama and CBS Radio Mystery Theatre was at the forefront. This is a crime/horror/mystery/drama/science fiction series similar to Suspense. However where most golden age shows were a half hour CBSRMT was an hour (minus commercials in both cases, though many golden age shows include original commercials which can be pretty cool). 1,399 original episodes broadcast over 8 years ('74-'82).

Not public domain so I can't give you a link...



There's THOUSANDS of series, these should get you started (best of the best and all that) but I'll mention one more. My wife's favorite series is:

Your's truly, Johnny Dollar "The man with the action packed expense account". This is essentially a noir(ish not exactly Otto Preminger level of darkness) mystery series about an insurance investigator. Very, very good.

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_..._Johnny_Dollar


Oh, one more, one of my personal favorites:

The Lives of Harry Lime is a PREQUEL to The Third Man, the classic Orson Welles movie. This stars Orson Welles as the title character. This is pretty noir, with a decided anti-hero for a hero.

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheLivesOfHarryLime


Also: The Adventures of Superman (Huge series, thousands of episodes!), The Shadow, Dragnet, Nero Wolfe, I Was A Communist For The FBI, Have Gun Will Travel, The Lone Ranger.


Seriously, man, this [censored] will change your driving life!!!!

[bottomset]

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PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

MP3 (t8655)
CO (t16315)
Button (t2970)
SB (t23723)
BB (t7828)
UTG (t3495)
UTG+1 (t3635)
MP1 (t14737)
Hero (t10408)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t1200</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls t1200, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t2945</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t3610</font>, Hero calls t2410.

Flop: (t10340) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>

Turn: (t10340) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>

River: (t10340) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>

Final Pot: t10340

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
UTG+1 has Qs Ad (one pair, queens).
Hero has Ah Js (flush, ace high).
Button has 9c 9s (three of a kind, nines).
Outcome: Hero wins t10340. </font>

$0.50 NL MTT - Balla

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lol at your Vanessa Rousso aggressive calls(not a good thing)

[mlane]

ur a buttface.

[the_main]

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You've got more than 100k in your account?

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You don't?

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Great story. One question though. Other than the amounts the games look a bit like the micros. That isn't a "normal" day at your level of tables is it? I understand Meta-Game theoretically, but I mean...

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The first guy must've been an idiot. I hadn't done anything out of the ordinary and he was gonna be a coinflip at best. Maybe he just wanted to gambool.

2nd guy - I pushed AI over his raise last hand, and he had seen me being very active in the past 10hands. But still, he's probably a flip at best.

Neither of them are regs in this game, and were probably just messing around on a sunday morning.

[Cry Me A River]

Travell'n CD (Literalist Mix)

Led Zeppling - Immigrant Song
Flashlight Brown - Ready To Roll
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
ACDC - Highway to Hell
Public Image Ltd - Rise
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
RUN DMC/Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
KMFDM - More and Faster
Ozzy - Crazy Train
Fred Eaglesmith - I Like Trains
Elvis - Mystery Train
Goldfrap - Train
Tom Waits - Downtown Train


Travell'n CD (World Traveller Mix)

The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
REM - Radio Free Europe
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
The Clash - London Calling
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
Siouxie and the Banshees - Isreal
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhatten
Nina Hagen - New York City
Kirsty MacColl - A New England
Killing Joke - America (Extended Mix)
David Bowie - This Is Not America
Concrete Blonde - Still In Hollywood
The Distillers - City Of Angels
Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere

Meh, those are the only two I can dig up right now. I should note that Depeche Mode's Route 66 is a very good driving song (particularly some of the many extended remixes).

[RyanCMU]

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This is my 'rock' list from itunes...good for driving.

Wrong Way - Sublime
Back in Black - AC/DC
No More Tears - Ozzy
Closer - NIN
Unified - G. Love
Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Hypnotized - System of a Down
Stuck in the Middle With You - Steve Miller Band
Rockstar - Nickleback
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Possum Kingdom - Toadies
Animal - Pearl Jam
Beverly Hills - Weezer
Italian Leather Sofa - Cake
American Idiot - Green Day
Peace Frog - The Doors
Jerry Was a Race Car Driver - Primus
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
Mr. Brownstone - Guns N' Roses
My Generation - The Who
Dr. Feel Good - Motley Crue
Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave
Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stop - Janes Addiction
Slow Ride - Foghat
Rusty Cage - Sound Garden
Slither - Velvet Revolver
Funk #49 - James Gang
Folsom prison blues - Johnny Cash

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We have a clear front runner, great list I'm downloading most of these songs now..

CMAR, your post is just sick with all the effort you put into it, thanks a lot Ill look into some of those ideas, not really my thing though, but wow great post none the less.

And continuing the trend, I continue to whoop ass at NL100 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Cry Me A River]

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CMAR, your post is just sick with all the effort you put into it, thanks a lot Ill look into some of those ideas, not really my thing though, but wow great post none the less.


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You watch movies? You watch TV? You read books? Srsly, give some OTR a try. Obviously go for genres you're into:

Science Fiction: X Minus One, Dimension X
Noir: The Lives of Harry Lime, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade
Thriller/horror/crime/general drama: Suspense, Escape, Lux Radio Theater, CBS Radio Workshop, Inner Sanctum
Crime/detective: Dragnet, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Sherlock Holmes
Western: Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, The Lone Ranger
Super-Hero/Pulp Hero: Superman, Green Hornet, The Shadow, Tarzan, Blue Beetle
Comedy: Our Miss Brooks, Great Gildersleeves

Wikipedia has a good general info page that outlines a lot of the major series:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_time_radio

Also great background noise for all occaisions (ie: online)

[TwoNitty]

Poker Stars - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.50/$1 Blinds - 9 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter)

SB: $59.00
BB: $73.40
UTG: $103.25
Hero (UTG+1): $102.05
MP1: $29.00
MP2: $130.40
MP3: $147.30
CO: $106.95
BTN: $110.65

Preflop: Hero is dealt A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (9 Players)
UTG folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $4.00</font>, 5 folds, SB calls $3.50, BB folds

Flop: ($9) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $6.00</font>, SB calls $6.00

Turn: ($21) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $15.00</font>, SB calls $15.00

River: ($51) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $34.00</font>, SB calls all-in for $34.00

Pot Size: $119.00 ($3 Rake)

SB had J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and LOST (-$59.00)
Hero had A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (high card Ace) and WON (+$57.00)

[mlane]

wooo i made it past the rebuy period man that was hard.

[Mr_Donktastic]

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wooo i made it past the rebuy period man that was hard.

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Whats your stack like? Only 9k here...

Scratch that 18k [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]