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It's well done, but a little pricey even for a hardback (it's listed at 30 on Amazon). It's good, but it's not 30 dollars good, so I'd recommend tracking it down in a library system or good old fashioned shoplifting. His run of films in the 70's sits alongside the best work of any director in my humble opinion, and no one got better music for a film than Ashby's score of Coming Home Coming Home soundtrack. I go back and forth between Being There and Coming Home as my favorites of his, and Harold and Maude is quite delightful as well. --Mike

Plan on watching all of a mid-quality rip of The Landlord on YouTube (provided it's still up) tonight. --Mike

Yeah, neither really seemed right in the scene. Jay seemed hyper focused on wanting to be understood and trying to get the mix perfect. The only thing that really seemed to matter to Jay was the art, it gave us two masterpiece albums, but ultimately cost Jay his band and one of his best friends. Jeff was acting like anyone with a throbbing migraine would. I think the biggest factor in the perception that Jay was somehow the bad guy in that film is the fact that Bennett was the one that got canned. If Jay and Jeff's parts had been switched and Tweedy was the one that got fired, I think people w

6-21-2003 Three Rivers Arts Festival Pittsburgh, PA 6-11-2004 Bonaroo Manchester, TN 10-7-2006 Tall Stacks Festival Cincinnati, OH 10-17-2007 A.J. Palumbo Center Pittsburgh, PA --Mike

After Jay left, Leroy moved back to keyboards on War on War, because he was the only member of the band who played keys live in the four piece, and to best of my knowledge Wilco has never done War on War live without the keyboard parts. --Mike

Sorry to spoil this for you, but those linear notes are right. Though John has always been primarily the band's bass player, he also occasionally plays guitar and piano on some tracks. I am pretty sure he plays guitar on Hell is Chrome and Hummingbird on AGIB. He played keys on a few songs on AM and I think there are a few songs on Summerteeth he overdubbed synth parts on. In the very short Bennett/Kotche era of the band (four shows in the summer of 2001, as seen in IATTBYH: the film), Leroy played bass on War on War, while John played a twelve string acoustic. --Mike

Wow. I'm excited they'll be in St. Paul, but if they pick up a date at a better venue within driving distance I might skip this show and go to that. --Mike

It's actually a pretty good feature to use, if someone's prone to say things that generally agitate you, it's nice to have the quick option of just skipping over a post, and it's one of the few good things about the new design is that you don't see the post box at all. It does mean that eventually no one will be reading what that Alan guy posts, but that's hardly a bad thing. Anyway, the only problem is if someone else quotes the post of the person you have ignore you can still see it. --Mike

I was kicking myself that I hadn't heard of it until the Criterion DVD came out, it's right up my alley. --Mike

Pointing out that that kind of shit isn't going to fly here is fine. --Mike

Picked this up this week, pretty amazing. --Mike

Thanks, --Mike

If this wasn't roughly the three hundredth time someone posted a Nels thread along these lines and if the original poster wasn't such a raving asshat, you'd have a point. --Mike

This is allegedly the Apatow's crew's Annie Hall, it's been awhile since I've been excited by anything that they've put out and even longer since I've been excited by anything Adam Sandler is in, but I have heard good things. --Mike

I've been inspired to make a sequel. Love all the mixes so far, Gtr Plyr's and PopTodd's have introduced me to a lot of stuff I hadn't heard before but am really getting into. --Mike

Oar is good, but almost disturbingly dark. I agree with Aman totally, it's a record that's more fun to read about than to actually listen to. Still I'm sure Beck and Wilco could come up with something pretty interesting with those songs. --Mike

I've just about lost my patience with this list, who's idea was it to spread this thing out over 20 days again? Probably the same person that nominated Wilco The Song. --Mike

I've heard this as well, I am sure it was the highlight of the night. I'll let them come on and tell the story themselves. It was fun running on my facebook feed this morning. You're right, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind. Generally since 2005, the venues the band has been playing have gotten bigger, and the acoustics aren't always great. Getting decent levels for this particular incarnation of the band is also a little harder than say when the four piece in 2001-early 2002, because so much is going on in every song. They also seem to be less liberal with allowing soundb

The last half-hour was the toughest part for me to handle. I felt like Ryan Murphy never quite decided what he wanted to do with the movie. If he was going to water down parts of the book to make it more universal, he needed to go further, and if he was going to a faithful adaptation he changed a few too many things and left some of the more interesting parts of the book out. I know the family alleges Burroughs made up quite a bit of the memoir, and the lawsuit came up right around the time the movie was going into production, which might have impacted what he could have put in the script (i.e

Instead of throwing millions on a terrible idea for a remake, some studio should buy the rough footage of this movie and re-cut it because a great movie could be culled from this story and these performances, but sadly this one isn't quite it. --Mike

One of my favorite exchanges from the Enjoy Wilco on My Terms thread...

A completely riveting tale of a New Orleans family during Katrina. It's closer to Eggers work on What is the What (i.e. he's more reporting than writing), but equally wonderful. --Mike

Yeah, if I had to pinpoint a major issue I have with the record it's definitely the production and the mastering. While it's not as distracting as Nevermind or an old Smashing Pumpkins record, everything is a little too loud and a little too compressed. Not making O'Rourke a Godfather offer to produce and mix everything from here on out after Ghost runs alongside canning Bennett as choices in retrospect I wish Tweedy hadn't made. --Mike

I just had a vision of an alternate universe where Wings at the Speed of Sound is my favorite album. "Do me a favor, open the door and Let Em In..." --Mike

I can understand being a little underwhelmed by the variety, but if you look at the shows from the Summerteeth tour or the YHF tour there was not only less variety in the song selection, but they were playing almost the exact same order every night as well. So they've actually gotten a lot better with this. --Mike