Leo

Wanna feel really old? The Buzzcocks and AARP.

That is so wrong ... on so many levels. Oxymoronish.

Yeah, someday they'll probably use radio hits to make us feel a certain nostalgia and engender a feeling that we need a certain something that they will offer in order to fulfill our .... WAIT, they already do that!! UH-OH...

SAVE YOURSELVES!!! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE RADIO!!!

Could be part of an Orwellian scale conspiracy, along with the dissemination of Christian-right fear and paranoia, to further dummy up the masses with uninspired, insulting music so we all walk around in a sheep-like stupor, defenseless to their attempts at control and domination.

Maybe.

Beautiful album. Liking it more than Oh, My Girl, and I really like that album.

Seeing her with Sparklehorse next month. Should be a great show.

Pastrysharp, the excellent Califone site, lists Califone opening for Wilco in Ann Arbor on 12/08/06.

The venue listed is the Michigan Union, which is not a music venue at all, but sometimes serves as an advance ticket office for the Michigan Theater, an exceptional venue.

No word on tickets.

No word on Wilcoworld.

Anyone heard any other news?

i'll be at the tigers game wondering the whole time what wilco is playing.

Had to give up my ticket to also be at the Tiger game. As much as it pains me to miss Wilco, it hurts more to miss the opportunity to spend time with everyone (Wendy, Jen, Erin, Morgan, Chris, Lou, ...). Buuut, we have not had a post-season game in Detroit for 19 years ---- GO TIGERS!!!

TH 11.09.06 Magic Bag w/ Venus 3 (Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Bill Rieflin) Detroit, MI

Wendyyyyyy -- Let's !

GO !!!

Haven't seen DBT yet but am planning to see them this tour. I have seen BBJr twice and consider him one of the best live performers out there. The $20.00 is worth it for him alone.

Cross-Eyed,

 

ignore my PM. I'm a little bit drunk and I see your setlist now. And I wish I had all the money we spent on dope. I'd by me a used car lot, and I think i'd never sell any of em. I'd just drive me a new car every day of the week dependending on how I feel. Now I'm just gonna put on that album by Little Anthony and the Imperials and pop my gum and arch my back. HA

Hey Dazzler, for chrissakes

do you want to know the truth of it?

.....

Christmas Card so sets me up then knocks me down -- Thanks. You'd of loved the show. Akron and Cleveland tonight .... Dude -- GO!

My head didn't explode after all; it was just immersed in the sweetest, swinginest sounds I've heard in a long, long time. The 27 year wait since the last time I saw him was rewarded with an incredible 2 hour show.

Highlights included Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (first performance on this tour) and the first encore of Murder In The Red Barn, Get Behind The Mule, and a sing-a-long It Rains On Me. Murder In The Red Barn was just all base, dirty blues. When he broke into Get Behind The Mule, the crowd began a supportive, rythmic clap that Waits interrupted saying, "You probably have better timing than me ... it's just displaced enthusiasm ... maybe you could just groove silently to yourselves," and continued with an amazing rendition. We were then invited to participate in the chorus on It Rains On Me.

The unofficiol setlist:

Make It Rain

God's Away On Business

Shore Leave

Way Down In The Hole

Dead And Lovely

Falling Down

Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

Invitation To The Blues

House Where Nobody Lives

Eyeball Kid

Who's Been Talken / 'Till The Money Runs Out

Circus

Trampled Rose

Lost At The Bottom Of The World

Sins Of The Father

Shake It

Murder In The Red Barn

Get Behind The Mule

It Rains On Me

Day After Tomorrow

Goin' Out West

The plain and honest anti-war sentiments of Day After Tomorrow was continually interrupted by concurring applause and cheers. It was one of many emotional moments.

Wendy, Adam, Chris, Michael and I, having a pre-show bite to eat at a sidewalk table across the street, were entertained by the dichotomy provided by Waits pork-pie-hat-wearing crowd competing for the evening's grace with football jersey-wearing Detroit Lions fans. Hilarious! A once-in-a-lifetime people watching opportunity before what hopefully does not prove to be another once-in-27 years Waits show.

(Erin: no birthday tributes, but happy birthday anyway!)

Tomorrow night at the Opera House after waiting 17 years to see him again, and now a box set of "orphans." My head is going to EXPLODE.

Here's the mix I made for WMS.

01 Woven Birds -- Calexico

02 Star Witness -- Neko Case

03 Meadow -- Espers

04 Motorcycle -- Ana Egge

05 In Houston -- Tapes 'N Tapes

06 Girl Is On My Mind -- The Black Keys

07 Memory Collector -- Kelley Stoltz

08 The Wait -- Built To Spill

09 Spriraling Sideways -- Centro-Matic

10 Black Grease -- The Black Angels

Still room? IN!

Thank you.