Mr. Kinsley

I'm going to have my 6th grade english classes submit some for this. Should be interesting since they've never heard of Wilco. I'll play some songs and for them and have them write what comes to mind. It's a combo teachable moment/public service. I'll try to post some of it here later.

Unless I just missed it, I was very surprised that Rush in Rio made the list and not Exit... Stage Left. Otherwise, with a couple of other exceptions, not a bad list.

i want that guitar but you a-holes are too good damn vc damn you* *Not actually entered, just how I feel about all you who are entering the contest. That is all, carry on.

So, I never watch the Office, but they were filming at the school I teach at. On my hallway where my classroom is to be exact. One of the characters apparantly starts a reading room in the local high school, which, being Van Nuys Middle School, is neither local nor a high school. Also out in front of the school they put clumps of snow by the main entrance and some barren fake trees to make it look like winter. Of course it was actually 95 degrees. Has this episode aired yet? They filmed about a month ago. Is this an ongoing plot line? It will be funny to see what they do with it. The next day

Why I love the live version of Via Chicago caccophony builds dissonant static but then harmony snaps back

three and sixty three cost diet coke and unsmoked why would you buy smoked?

pat and john's duo they could defend all seasons but they chose autumn

rising up from the uncle tupelo ashes lazy rock critics

Crap. I spent all day thinking to myself, "That guitar is SO mine!" Not so sure about that now. Y'all are gooooood!

Thanks! I got on a bit of a roll and just went with it. Took about a half hour. I came up with the one about Pat, then it just didn't seem right to leave everyone else out! I'll probably be ruled out due to overkill.

Well, then I'll post them here so I can copy them into individual emails more easily. I got a bit carried away. Set #1: one per member (these all work as a set) channeling townsend rock god play and posturing yeah strike that pose pat in back but not lost melodies rain down from mike laptop boy no more forget the earthbound string and pedal transcendence nels floating above glenn's rattling sticks time triumphantly locked-in fell in love indeed steady through and through thumping never soared so deep anchor around john somberly funny enjoyably serious tweedy's dues are

Can we enter more than one per email? Or should I send multiple emails? Should I mount the SG on the wall or do I dare play it?

I think even Paul would say, "Whoa. That shit was deep."

So, Kidsmoke had a post over in Just a Fan where she put an Italian review of W(ta) through a translation program and the result was rather poetically hilarious. This gave me the idea to take songs and put them through said program several times in different languages to see how it changes. For instance, I put Jesus, Etc. through an English to Spanish to German to Italian translation and it turned out to be rather interesting. Jesus, do not cry. That you can trust me honey. It is also possible to combine what you want. I'll be around. You rightly stars. Each one is a setting sun. Tall

OK, OK, back on topic people! I'm going to start a new topic for this buffoonery in Someone Else's Song. Please keep it to commentary on the Italian review article. Sorry Donna!

Sorry to hijack the thread for a moment, but this gives me an idea - a whole new way to write lyrics! Write something, put through a lang. trans. program into another language, say spanish maybe. Then do it again into japanese, then italian, then back to english. I wonder how Wilco lyrics would fare? OK, I tried it with the first part of Jesus, Etc. Went from english to spanish to german to italian, then back to english: Jesus, do not cry. That you can trust me honey. It is also possible to combine what you want. I'll be around. You rightly stars. Each one is a setting sun. Tall buil

Um, hello? Three is a magic number? Duh.

Wow. I expected A-Man to inform me that this was a duplicate of a thread from 6 months ago and 4 people would take a peek and that would be that. I certainly didn't expect 3 pages of fisticuffs!

Weird. I was just thinking yesterday that they should make a movie about the beginning of the Beatles. As usual I'm a day late and a dollar short. Some of it makes me want to say "I call bullshit!" The bit on the top of the bus. The drama with the aunt and the mom about John being 'stolen.' Besides, John and Paul met outside at a party/gig. They showed them meeting in what looked like a school gym. Little things like that bug me, but I'll undoubtedly check it out anyway!

Here's a little article a buddy of mine forwared to me about The Loft that he came across online. Mostly info we already know, but the online version has some nifty photos. http://loftlifemag.com/mu/?p=3503 Here's the straight text for the link-averse. The Wilco Loft For the past ten years, behind the brick walls of an industrial building in the Irving Park section of Chicago, the Grammy Award-winning, genre-bending Wilco, and many of their musical guests, have been not-so-quietly making music. According to Jason Tobias, the band’s tour manager, who also handles the Wilco Loft, “Not

See blue guitar pictured above.

This is a bit like finally seeing a DJ you've been listening to for years. My mental image and the real Louie just didn't quite sync up. Fortunately, I like the real-life Louie better! I am perplexed by the guitar thingy, though.

I was going to post something snarky about how pointlessly redundant this thread is on a Wilco fan board, but after thinking about it I decided this feels more like that video where the Bee Girl finds all the other people dressed as bees running through a field. It's nice to have a place where nobody says 'What's a Wilco?' So, yeah. I like Wilco. No matter how redundant that may be.

What the hell is this?!?! How did I miss it?

This would be so hilariously creepy! Stand in the front row and stare at Glenn the entire time.