Originally Posted by Sammyboy
Oh, so having a different opinion makes me an idiot? You're all sheep. Someone tells you something is wonderful and special, and you go along with it, in case people mock you. I'd love to be as succesful as the Beatles, or even Jessica Simpson. I'd love to be as talented as some of the people I consider REALLY talented (Thelonius Monk, Joni Mitchell, Mark Eitzel), but I'm not. I still know the greatest marketing act of all time when I see it. The Beatles were a decent band who pretended to be something special. Great manipulators of the zeitgiest? Yes. Great musicians? No. Great songwriters? Maybe Harrison........
Yeah, yeah, yeah
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.