Hippycat

Thanks for the heads up! Finally one of the shows I can get to.

It's going to be a concept album! Like The Wall, or Tommy. The concept? An alienated band who plays pinball. Hey...

A Toronto show would be great, but another in London, Ontario would really be the cat's pajamas! When was that show at Centennial Hall? 2006?

Just reading your previous post and I thought "oh man I'm I ever going to hook you up!", then of course I see you're kidding. I think I owe you a beer though, so next show we hit up together It's not 50+ DVDs, but hey, free beer!

Pic for marquee fans: Quick .gif of a few of the less out-of-focus pics I took:

That California Stars sing along that Jeff said was requested by Keith and Debbie, well that's me and my girlfriend. It was very nice of Sue to go around and ask the people in line what they wanted to hear before the show. And thankfully we got in line early enough to be there for that. Amazing, amazing show!

The Chicago Diner is maybe 10 or 15 minutes walk from there (3411 N. Halsted Street). Great place if you like vegetarian and vegan food. Here's their site: http://www.veggiediner.com/

I hope everybody has a great time tonight for the Friday the 13th show! My girl and I will be there for Valentines Day. It's an expensive V-Day for me this year. Since we're traveling to the show tomorrow, I had to buy flowers today (don't forget the flowers indeed!). And if all goes according to plan I'll be buying her one of these for dessert tomorrow too: This will be my 10th Wilco/Jeff Tweedy show! 5 in Chicago, 2 Detroit, 1 London Ontario, 1 Toronto, 1 Austin Texas. And every single one of them was great!

Ticketmaster says my tickets are in the mail. See you on 14th!

Already ordered our $100 tix, oh well. Now fingers crossed TM gets them to me in time! I'm totally going to spoil my girlfriend to a nice dinner at the Chicago Diner before the show too. And maybe, just maybe, I'll take her for a quick stop into Macy's for a few minutes of browsing - we don't have one of those in the part of Canada where we're from. Happy Valentine's Day indeed! If I don't make it for the line up when you're around, could you please count two requests (me and my lady) for California Stars? Thanks!

Ordered 2 tickets Friday night (hope they come in time!), then booked a flight from Detroit (crossing over from Windsor, Canada), and lastly I booked a sweet 4 star hotel (through Hotwire). This reminds me of last year's Winter Residency, when for some dumb reason I found myself with a couple extra bucks and some time off in February. Hit 4 shows of that. But this time we can only make it for the Saturday show. I have no idea how much this trip will cost me, but needless to say my girlfriend is very very impressed when I said I had a great Valentine's day present for her this year!

Confirmed on Wilcoworld. Full line up here: http://www.bonnaroo.com/artists.aspx

Just saw this on the CBC, and not quite surprised you guys knew all about this. And while this initially got me very excited, all I can think now is holy shit are those tickets ever expensive! For Toronto: Ticket Price: $250.00 CAD for Price Level 1 $99.00 CAD for Price Level 2 $76.75 CAD for Price Level 3- GA Floor Ticket price includes a $1.75 CAD facility fee Guess $76 for standing on the floor behind 10000 people isn't too bad, except I'm kinda short. Those $250 tickets better be really good.

For no particular reason I decided to try my crappy little digi cam's video feature at that point. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcT7zhaxEfg

^ Thank you.

Could somebody tell me if there's a coat check at the Riv? Be nice to get rid of my heavy winter coat during the show.

I'm happy enough to know where Marina City is. As per the above wiki: "The towers are featured on the cover of the Wilco album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."

Friday opener: Outtasite (Outta Mind) Wednesday closer: Outtamind (Outta Sight)

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Henry and the H-Bombs. Seriously.

In 4 bids the Friday show is already up to $760. Started at a very reasonable $250. I didn't check out the other dates. Great idea, IMO.

5 shows, going to be 9 after adding 4 Residency shows. June 21 2005: Meadow Brook Music Fest - Rochester Hills, Michigan (w/ My Morning Jacket!); September 25 2005: Zilker Park - Austin, Texas - ACL Fest (man was it ever hot!); July 08 2006: Centenial Hall - London, Ontario; June 30 2007: Massey Hall - Toronto, Ontario; October 17 2007: Fox Theatre - Detroit, Michigan;

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

I just had a somewhat similar task over the last few weeks. A handy 2 gig usb thumb drive (super handy those things) and lots of copy/paste got the job done. And for all those that shit on Vista, well having had the opportunity to use it for the last few weeks, I must completely agree. Who would have ever thought that XP would be superior to anything?

Rome and Pushing Daisies. Did I do this right?

Does anyone here have an opinion of the Chicago Diner? Last time I was in Chicago (for NYE 2006) my girlfriend and I tried to go there but it was totally packed and there were lots of people waiting to get in - which I took as a good sign. Since both she and I are vegetarians (I'm actually vegan - gasp!) I'm interested in checking the place out while we're in town for the Residency. Any reviews of the place/menu would be appreciated.