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Sweet, hadn't heard anything about this. Hopefully more information will come out soon. I remember seeing a trailer for an Os Mutantes doc in 2006, that still hasn't come out yet. Yeah, I really love his first record. --Mike

Sweet, hadn't heard anything about this. Hopefully more information will come out soon. I remember seeing a trailer for an Os Mutantes doc in 2006, that still hasn't come out yet. Yeah, I really love his first record. --Mike

Interested in some hyperbole that I actually sincerely believe. For the love of God see them on this tour, in ten years people will give you the same look if you tell them you were there as they would now if you saw Neutral Milk Hotel touring Aeroplane or My Bloody Valentine doing the Loveless shows or Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted tour (not quite like seeing Dylan and the Band, though Becker's guitar solo at the end of Buñuel was pretty amazing). Califone is that good, go get their records and see them. --Mike

It was this show: Wilco Base: June 30, 2003 Washington D.C Constitution Hall. If I remember the boot correctly it happened during the middle of Misunderstood, it's probably the angriest I've ever heard Tweedy sound on a live show bootleg, and they cut the show short after Misunderstood finished (there were apparently three more songs on the setlist). I am not opposed to people doing whatever makes them enjoy a concert the most as long as it doesn't disturb others around them including the band. But if you're picture taking is distracting enough that the band is noticing, it's probably going

I am not so sure about this, remember how dull and grammatically correct things were when Panther was on hiatus. --Mike

I listened to a good chunk of the band's catalog driving down 94 to Chicago this weekend. Somewhere during Summerteeth (the song), probably when the synth kicks in right before the "it feels nice to have you here" verse, I realized that these guys have been so important to me and given me so much in the last eight years I've been following them, that almost anything else they do at this point is just gravy. Though I'd certainly have my preferences as to what future albums would sound like (Summerteeth Two: The Search for More Summer Teeth or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2: The Hotel's Revenge), I got

Amazing show. The movie was gorgeously weird, and once I settled into it, I found it very riveting, thought it probably isn't for everyone I noticed more than a few people heading for the exits during it, and Califone's droney intro. they opened with a short instrumental and went right into the movie tonight. During the film they played Ape-Like, Funeral Singers and Evidence over the closing credits. They also played variations on some of the instrumentals on Funeral Singers: SNAKE'S TOOTH = PROTECTION AGAINST FEVER AND LUCK IN GAMBLING, A WISH MADE WHILE BURNING ONIONS WILL COME TRUE and SEVE

Thanks for the review, Lou. Looking forward to hitting it tonight. We got back row center tickets, but it seems like a pretty small venue, so I am not too concerned. Will try to get my thoughts about it up here eventually, but tomorrow I'll be on the road back to St. Paul most of the day and then I have a week's worth of grad school work I've been blowing off . But, yeah, I've never seen Califone live before, really looking forward to it. --Mike

I'll be there Sunday night, did they recently add that Friday show? --Mike

It's almost depressing watching WVU beat up on Syracuse today, that program has fallen off so much this decade, it's almost unfathomable. --Mike

Yeah, it time for me to get up there. You never know when Gags is going to decide to retire, they'll probably both come into that game undefeated. I'll be sure to stick around and catch the campus there, I have heard amazing things. I went to a smaller Catholic college too, Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia (where I am originally from), but we didn't have football. --Mike

Yeah, Thomas looks great this year. They're undefeated and ranked 15th, they have this kid Fritz Waldvogel, who's like a shorter Tim Dwight. Almost everytime he gets the ball he either breaks it for a touchdown or he just gets hit before he does. Their one weakness seems to be their quarterback, they have two guys who they rotate in and out but neither are guys I'd really feel comfortable about sticking in down four with two minutes left, but the way their playing they might only be in that situation once or twice this year. Edit: Have you read Austin Murphy of SI's book, The Sweet Season, a

Yeah, since I moved to St. Paul a year ago, I have been following the MIAC. St. Thomas is the closest team to me (I go to grad school at Hamline, but their team isn't very good) so I've gone to a couple of their games, and I've been meaning to shoot up to Collegeville one of these weekends to see the Johnnies in person. Gagliardi embodies just about everything that's great about sports and even humanity, he's impossible to root against. But yeah I've found the really good Division III schools in MN have such a great atmosphere around games, it's fun to be around. --Mike

I am a huge Coen Brothers fan, and I have to say I enjoyed as much or more on the first watch as I have anything they've ever put out. There's a scene in this movie I laughed at harder than almost anything else I've ever seen in a movie (up there with Owen Wilson's "Eli Cash" reading in Tenenbaums and Woody Allen's "I happen to have Marshall Mcluhan right here.") So yeah, go see this movie. --Mike

The make up unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the LSU game was equally bullshit (though neither team should have gotten a penalty, I think). Agree with you about the Notre Dame calls that team seems weirdly blessed in the early part of this season, but I'm sure they'll get theirs against USC. Was a little surprised Miami pulled that one out, and apropos of nothing I'd really like to never see that fucking Gene Simmons "Dr. Love/Dr. Pepper" commercial again. --Mike

I am pretty sure that's their only good song. I, too, heard Listen to What The Man Says on Pandora, downloaded their EP and remember trashing everything else but that cover. --Mike

I listen to Funeral way less than I do YHF, Kid A and some of the other top albums on that list, so it's possible because of that every time I hear it I'm just a little blown away. I think we'll both agree though that The Glow part two really needs to be in credible top ten of the decade. I would further opine that You And I would clearly be the Monica Lewinsky to WTA's Bill Clinton, and the Jeff Lynne production and You Never Know is Kenneth Starr. These things just come to me. --Mike

I am bummed there's no Ghost, but it's consistent with Pitchfork's position on that record which has always been a little shaky.

Eh, I like Foxtrot more, but saying Funeral is better than Foxtrot to me is like saying Sgt. Pepper is better than Revolver. Of the two there's one I prefer (Revolver, YHF), but there pretty close, I am not really bothered if someone ranks them the other way. I also have no problem with Kid A at number one, that's an amazing record back to front, it and YHF are 1-2 for me, I have no idea what would come after them, but those two really stood out more than anything else this decade. --Mike

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was like 19th in their Top 50 albums of the first five years of this decade, so I guess some how in the five it got a lot better. Anyway, not too displeased with this list. Pretty solid, top Ten, and sorry Jesusetc, Funeral's fucking great, and it's aged as well as any album this decade, in my opinion. I wasn't as keen on Neon Bible, but Funeral is still pretty magical for me. Oh shit, Blinking Lights didn't make this list? I know Pitchfork didn't like it when they reviewed it, it got somewhere in the 6.2's. But yeah, that'd it probably be in my top 5 of the decade,

Ah, so Jeff has the reading comprehension level of most other VCers. I wonder if it was him putting his e-mail address in the leak thread right after I said "if you want a link to this album e-mail me directly" or asking for a PM in one the Unlikely Japan/Dark Neon threads, after I had done something similar. It's okay, though, I, too, get posts and posters confused all the time, as evidenced by "almost never misquotes kidsmoke." --Mike

Damn you, I just wasted ten minutes trying to find that post. . Congratulations Mr. Ackland, now you know you've made it on the interwebs. --Mike

Yeah, I've read that before too. Didn't they use the mellotron that was on Strawberry Fields Forever for a couple cuts on that record? --Mike

. I also still make it a point to catch PTI (when I know both Wilbon and Kornheiser are going to be on it) and The Sports Reporters can be pretty good sometimes too. --Mike

I am not sure I've ever met anyone who actually likes Colin Cowherd, is he just really hated in diehard sports fan and internet circles? There have to be people out there that like him right? Maybe? ESPN Radio going from the old Kornheiser Show (which was wonderful) to The Herd might be the biggest downgrade in media history. I am not ready to throw Romo under the bus quite yet. Right now, he certainly a knack for making bad plays in clutch situations, I remember last year when the Cowboys played the Steelers at Hines Field as soon as the Steelers tied that game at 13 with about two minutes