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This one is a fucking disaster. --Mike

No need to apologize, has anyone tried to save Latin for you yet? --Mike

I certainly will now. --Mike

Dark Neon is probably my fourth favorite song that came out the sessions (behind Bull Black Nova, Solitaire, and One Wing). I wouldn't take anything off the record, I'd just put Dark Neon in between Country and Solitaire. That would help spruce up the back end of the record a bit more in my opinion. --Mike

I'd just listen to Steven Wright instead, unless this guy is accosting on you on the street doing his stand up, isn't he easy enough to ignore? Christ, I sound like my mother. What was I saying? Flame on! --Mike

That's a great post. I am furious with myself I didn't make the same joke . --Mike

Yeah, that's a great point. While the perception of their other records has changed and evolved over time, since it came out Foxtrot seems to be universally excepted as either their best or close to it. --Mike

Favorite part of the entire album: The piano part under Tweedy's "I am down on my hands and knees, every time a door bell rings." Close second: Poor Places, the ending might be the closest anyone's come to getting the same effect of "A Day in The Life." The other high compliment I can give this record is anytime something awful happens in my life or in the world at large, this is almost always what I put on. And unlike something like Death Cab's Transatlanticism, which was my "angry young man" record years ago that I now can't listen to at all without being reminded how ridiculous I was when

Yeah, that's spot on. He doesn't quite have the skills off a one guy yet, and it was a mistake for him to be taken as high as he was, but looking back on it he's certainly been a better fit than Brady Quinn would haev been the guy projected to go in that spot to the Dolphins that year. Quinn is apparently so bad, Derek Anderson is starting over him. Vibes to Packers fans, if Roethlisberger retires and unretires and comes back and haunts Pittsburgh as a Raven in 15 years, I might have to give up on football that season. --Mike

Did you hear Simmons' joke about him this week? "Ted Ginn Jr's career gives us a chance to imagine what it would be like if someone tried to play wide receiver without arms." --Mike

They could release twelve albums of just Leave Me Like You Found Me outtakes in a row and it still wouldn't ruin the legacy of this record. It's so good, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is the fourth best song on the album (behind Jesus, Ashes, and Poor Places), that's the highest compliment I can give it right now. --Mike

It's been a long time since USC's been beat like that. That Oregon team somehow turned into the 95 Cornhuskers after that Boise State loss. Meanwhile, looks like my team, WVU, is going to lose at least two if not three more games down the stretch. International Bowl here we come! Isn't Toronto supposed to be real nice in early January? --Mike

Top Ten of The Decade: 1.) The Royal Tenenbaums 2.) City of God 3.) Magnolia (if it counts as this decade, which I guess it should if it went to wide release in 2000) 4.) Kings and Queen 5.) I Heart Huckabees 6.) George Washington 7.) Synecdoche, New York 8.) No Country for Old Men 9.) The Squid and The Whale 10.) Wonder Boys Next Five 11.) This is England 12.) Frost/Nixon 13.) Almost Famous 14.) Lost in Translation 15.) The Athlete. One film per director so I didn't suffer an aneurysm while making the list. --Mike

"Thax" was involved in a legendary thread here around the time of the Kicking Television shows. I am not sure if we ever figured this out but two different people posted as Thax, the second claiming that the first was a hoax. He hasn't read at a Wilco or Tweedy show since the spring of 2005, and I think Tweedy made some disparaging comments about him in a documentary based on Thax's life and work a few years back. Links to the threads from the archives: First and Last Post... looong. sorry. Good Grief! --Mike

Yeah, Yacht Rock actually built an entire episode around that sketch, I think it was the Toto one, but it's been awhile since I've watched those. --Mike

I just about lost it during the "Bing" Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Gerry Todd" video, anytime Moranis did Woody Allen, and naturally during Polynesiantown. --Mike

Possibly the funniest thing that's ever been on North American television. Perry Como Still Alive Lewis Sings Dylan\ Leave it To Beaver: 25th Anniversary Battle of the PBS Network Stars Ride Like The Wind --Mike

Playoff Picks AFC 1.) Indianapolis 2.) Denver 3.) New England 4.) Pittsburgh 5.) Cincinnati 6.) Baltimore Outside looking in: San Diego, NY Jets. NFC 1.) New Orleans 2.) Arizona 3.) New York Giants 4.) Green Bay 5.) Minnesota 6.) Philadelphia Outside looking in: Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago. Still feeling a Manning Brothers Super Bowl: Indy/NY Giants, but we've got a long way to go, and the Giants need to play a lot better than they have the last two weeks. --Mike

Yours is pretty close to mine, I am starting to trust Dallas a little more than Atlanta to make the playoffs. I'd have San Diego on top of the second group of the AFC (very good second half of the season team in recent years) and I'd swap the Bengals and Ravens for now. Even though Miami is 2-4, I am still not ruling out another second half run from them, but they have to get better play out of their secondary. --Mike

We've only really had two people complaining about the shows not being distributed, and I am positive neither of them knew that srmt was Sue Miller-Tweedy, which in fairness if you haven't been here for awhile, that isn't a connection you'd immediately make. And I think everyone has claimed to have gotten inside info from Tweedy at some point, it's one of our finest running gags here. The Living Room shows have clearly been a very wonderful and worthwhile experience for a lot of people here, and it's easy to say why they'd be in high demand Jeff Tweedy playing essentially an all-request set

If this does half of Where The Wild Things Are's numbers, I think it'll probably be viewed as a success. Early reviews seem pretty typical for Anderson movies, the same people that have hated the last few hate this one, and the people that have liked the last few like it, I'm looking forward to seeing it for myself. --Mike

Very cool, I have always gotten a lot of compliments from people that don't recognize the book just about that cover image. --Mike

Yeah, if you think things get heated here, you should see the shit storm that happens on Via Edinburg every year when Les McKeown auctions off his annual living room show. --Mike

This one and: Are both on the way. I'm also always kind of reading or re-reading. --Mike

He covers the entire career up until Oranges and Lemons and also goes into the Dukes side project, he wasn't a big fan of their later works (I think he needs to listen to Apple Venus Volume One harder, but that's just me). They're in his British post-punk psych section along with The Soft Boys and Teardrop Explodes. --Mike