calvino

Nice way to spend the day.

Watched Midnight in Paris last night - it's a good one, especially the cinematograhy. I thought the last scene with Wilson and his finance and her family was a bit lacking, though. I also wonder why Allen didn't bring up Ezra Pound - I would of thought he would have been an excellant character to write about.

In the footage that Wilco Me posted, Fred said he use to work for Sue Miller and is a friend of the family. I'm sure Miller booked Trenchmouth. Fred's bits in IATTBYH always cracked me up - I don't think I heard of him before seeing that doc. Yeah, what nalafej wrote.

I always thought your avatar was an extremely large jack rabbit. (your dog's mouth were the ears...)

From their website - hopefully all goes well with the treatment.

Just finally gotten around to listen to their CD - great stuff. Would be a great opening band for Wilco - they would definitely set the bar high for the evening.

I always wondered how Fred and Jeff met - thanks for the link.

He was hoping to build it in Fairfax, CA, but the locals were against it, so he picked San Rafael. I think A-Man posted the link regarding the Fairfax deal.

This is the place that some of the locals were against, right? In other web studio news, Weir is going to stream a free Ratdog show 1/25/12.

Why not, I guess. Should be interesting how he fares. I am guessing that other guy in the video is his manager.

That's good news.

From the link: (I never realized he played with Liebman, before).

Acually I made a mistake, the link I posted was from 11/11/11 - not 11/9/11. I think the below has the radio broadcast: http://viachicago.org/topic/46799-wilco-11092011/

I replaced the actual show, but I had the whole broadcast (interviews and all) on my originals.

Xm is replaying the entire original 12/31/90 broadcast. I taped this off the radio: the tapes were lost years ago (last seen in CO.) Some of the pre-show and between set banter I do remember - The interview with Vince Welnick was cool to hear again and Healy talking about the opening of the Vaults with the release of the One from the Vault. I think this New Year Show is still my favorite. It's great to hear the original broadcast, again.

I think some already did: see http://viachicago.or...wilco-11112011/ Of course you may talking about the audio...

Great stuff, Chris Potter's last recording with the Douglas quintet. Frisell is also on some of these tracks on this record.

Below is a write up from the DMG Newsletter for December 30th, 2011:

Thanks for the recommendations, VCers. Man, the kindle makes Christmas shopping for the wife very easy. Our first daughter is due any day now, the Cinderella book should be an interesting, fun read for her and me, both - at least I think it should be....

Somehow, I think that ship has sailed - which is a shame.

I just tried about 15 minutes ago and I failed the captcha 4 times, even though I wrote the right letters each time. Same thing happen to me when the Metro tickets went on sale the first time.

I am not even sure he really did check mine either - I saw her name on the piece of paper and I pointed it out to him and he said "great". It seems to be good system, though - I guess it does help on the scalping, because one doesn't really know when or how much they will check. The lines went quick, too, for us at least.

I had no problem getting in. My tickets were charged on my wife's credit card - she decided on not attending - I brought her credit card and license and they just checked her credit card. We bought our tickets through Frontgate, they just had a list of names on paper and checked them off, while Etix had the machines to swipe.

They were on the WGN TV morning show this morning - played Dawned on Me and Whole Love. Nice interview, too. Tweedy did the weather, which was pretty funny - he's no Ginger Zee, though.