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I had a good laugh at that one, this one is great as well: Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter at page 20

Other great autumn music... The Beatles: Rubber Soul and the acoustic songs from the White Album The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons and subsequently the entire Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack The Velvet Underground: self-titled third album. Both the Bill Fay albums. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot John Cale: Vintage Violence George Harrison: All Things Must Pass Galaxie 500: On Fire Van Morrison: Astral Weeks Fran

Yeah, I really thought I'd never love a comedy as much as Arrested Development, but Spaced is absolutely on that level. It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. --Mike

Hmm... I hadn't heard of the apocalypse interpretation. I always just saw it as a really beautiful tune. Thanks to that Volkwagen commercial (how non-hipster of me) I became obsessed with it when I was 14, and subsequently got into Nick Drake. I listen to his three albums probably as much or more than anything else in my collection. With the possible exception of the Velvet Underground (if you ignore Squeeze and please do so), I can't think of any artist with a discography as consistently brilliant (much as I love the Beatles, it's not to often I reach for Please Please Me), though I suppose o

Favorite Nick Drake songs: Hmm... does everything he ever recorded work? But seriously Time Has Told Me, Northern Sky, Pink Moon, Which Will, One of These Things First, At the Chime Of The City Clock, Hazey Jane I. --Mike

KCRW is doing a special tribute to him today, his interviews with Michael Sliverblatt on their website's archive are all wonderful. I added Broom of the System, which I haven't read yet to my library holds list. --Mike

Yeah, the weather kind of limited the game plan a bit, but the defense looked very strong. I also finally saw the Burbs this weekend, that movie is so awesome. Bruce Dern is amazing: "One thing about these old guys - they never leave the house without their hair." Thread hijack over-- The Pats still look like a 11-12 win team to me, the Bills look like they might be this year's breakthrough team, the Vikings could be the best team in the NFC if they had even an average quarterback, Tavaris Jackson is a poor man's Kordell Stewart. --Mike

Very sad to see this. I slowly made my way through Infinite Jest last year, reading it in 20-30 page increments and exhaustively flipping to look up every footnote. I love all his stuff, he was truly a unique and interesting talent. --Mike

I was in a 10th grade World History class. The teacher told us about it when we came in, and then we had to take a test, which I think everybody failed. --Mike

I found a bunch of episodes of Get a Life on youtube a couple of months back and they made my week. He's one of my favorite comedic minds. --Mike

Yeah, once I got all of the 2002-2003 shows I really wanted and got enough of the Ghost tour shows I kind of backed off. I download from time-to-time with the owl and bear, but my days of obsessively going after shows are over. I am with PaulB and Just for Mund, the post-Bennett, pre-Cline shows are my favorites. You can't go wrong with any of the soundboards from that era. With Wilco though there are few "bad" shows, it really comes down to what songs you really like hearing them to play, there's a setlist feature on wilcobase where you can put a few of your favorites in and see if they've

Slightly ironic post-avatar combo, I'd like to clarify that I didn't just try to commit suicide. --Mike

Eerie shades off what happened to Jeff in Springfield, though thankfully he didn't get hit. Looks like Noel was hospitalized, and the guy who pushed him was arrested. --Mike

Hope you had a good one, Sam. --Mike

I liked this bit better when it was about Pink Floyd. --Mike

I'll try this out and maybe put the original live version of Spiders. --Mike

. The Steelers looked wonderful this weekend, I really needed that after the Mountaineers shat the bed. --Mike

How WVU played today: So ummm... when's basketball season start? --Mike

Well since I did in this in the first thread... This is not meant to be in anyway definitive and is catered totally to my own tastes. Hybrid playlist- A Loose Ghost is Fur. 1.) At Least That's What You Said 2.) Hell Is Chrome 3.) Laminated Cat 4.) Elegant Transaction 5.) So Long 6.) Muzzle of Bees 7.) Hummingbird 8.) Handshake Drugs 9.) Wishful Thinking 10.) Company in My Back 11.) Chinese Apple 12.) The Late Greats --Mike

There's also plenty to hate on with Leinart (who's looking more and more like Ryan Leaf everyday) and Bush (who is adjusting to his post-USC paycut), but we only tease because of insane jealousy. They've been the best program of the past decade, though if tOSU wins it all this year that might be debatable, and they have the best cheerleaders in the county. And I can't speak for Charles White, but in terms of USC Heisman winners Marcus Allen was awesome. --Mike

Do you know the (completely fictional) story behind that song? I Keep Forgetting --Mike

Mine would be AGIB LF s/t BAitUSA SBS --Mike Oh, right I should do this now, I suppose. AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS

I saw them on Austin City Limits in 2002, it was the 1999 show on repeat. I liked Christ for President a lot and so I picked up Summerteeth from the library a few days later. I listened to that record nonstop for about two weeks and then found out about YHF and got that in May of 2002 and the rest as they say is history. I picked up the Mermaid Discs in 2003-2004 and bought Being There a few days before I graduated from high school in 2004. I got A Ghost is Born the day it came out. First reactions on the albums AM: I got this after I already had Being There, Summerteeth, YHF, and AGIB, a

Agreed. Thus far Ghost seems to be the overwhelming favorite, which isn't particularly surprising. Would people take Ghost over Born Again in the USA? (I would). What about Loose Fur vs. Born Again in the USA? (It's Loose Fur for me, but it's close). --Mike I kind of wanted to set a spread on this like a football game and have people wager. I think I'd have had AGIB plus 25. --Mike

Panther's thread has piqued my curiosity. After seeing Born Again in The USA pull away from Sky Blue Sky, I wondered how the first Loose Fur album would fair against A Ghost is Born. Though Loose Fur was recorded before Yankee Hotel Foxtrot I have always felt it has a little more in common sonically with A Ghost is Born. Both records seem to have been recorded in the same way, basic tracks recorded together by the band in the room, overdubs added later with pro-tools. I also am pretty sure Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would beat pretty much any album we put up against it in a pool here, it did win the