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It will happen whenever I get tired of doing the blog. It will happen, but it's not in the near future.

Our Endless Numbered Days is probably Sam Beam's best and most accessible. Highly recommended. I also have a few of his live shows here: http://www.owlandbear.com/live-downloads/ Check out http://www.owlandbear.com/flacshndvd-faq/ if you're not sure how to decompress the files.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003176

Welcome to the board?

I think that's the real crime.

The lineup will be just like old times, as Tim put it: Tim Hurley, Brian Deck, Ben Massarella, and Tim Rutili. Ben and Tim Rutili are the only Califone members. Originally the reunion was for the SubPop fest, and then they slated a "practice show" at the Hideout. Califone has played a few RRM covers occasionally at their shows and I think that there was a brief reunion a couple of years ago. This is a pretty big deal (IMO), though. Wish I could make either of these shows but it doesn't look good. All in all, though, I don't expect the reunion to be more than these two shows.

Picked up their vinyl at the (sold out) SD show. Very nice. 12" LP and 12" EP in one package! Woohoo!

Yeah, I've read Desert Solitaire and The Journey Home. Good stuff. His newest posthumous collection of letters is pretty cool too.

www.insound.com is a good place www.amazon.com is a good place too -- just include "LP" when you search for an album title www.ebay.com is also good, but rare things can get expensive, fast. Those are pretty much my 3 main resources.

I'm interviewing Frightened Rabbit tonight and I thought it would be interesting to compile some questions from the well-versed fans here at VC. I can't guarantee that I'll ask every question, but I will try to include as many as possible. Anyone who contributes a question will get credit when the interview is posted at Owl&Bear. Go!

Indeed.

Time out of Mind and Love & Theft are both top-notch. Good as I Been to You is good too, kind of a deep cut album, if there is such a thing. Also, all of the songs on the Rolling Thunder Revue minus Joan Baez are top-notch. And Live 1966 is great.

I really want to go to this, but I don't know if it will happen.

I hope that when I'm dead, everyone will lament the loss of someone who was unparalleled in his ability to annoy, create awkwardness, make jokes that fall completely flat, and thoroughly depress anyone interested in talking politics, but I'll be damned if they question my integrity.

It's like you're either pro-life or a baby killer, I guess.

Hah. Maybe you just need to catch the fever. I agree about the republicans though. I like to remind people that this is where the republicans (like Cheney, Bush etc.) wanted us to go. They had all their ducks in a row. I think that perhaps Rove was a major contributor to their decline, though. They might've found more success if they'd done things more honestly. I've said it before. Religion should not be used as a way to divide and conquer. It's unsustainable. I haven't had coffee yet, which is why I can't speak in sentences.

I have to admit that the Barack Fever is kind of weird, and the reality of his rhetoric seems a little shaky. But I am glad that there is a Presidential candidate who excites people. I never saw anyone truly excited about Gore or Kerry. I don't see anyone excited about McCain.

Definitely. If the Democrats implode, they will split into a very fractious group.

That kind of sarcasm scares me a little, but I agree--our whole situation is scary. There's no way we can reasonably expect any third-rate modern president to do much of anything in office, but a Democrat might be just what the Republicans need. If the Dems are too inept to sink the Republican ship in 2008, 4 years of classic Democrat ineptitude might be just the thing to bring the Republicans back into office in 2012. It seems like both parties are on the verge of implosion.

Jeez, don't go postal on us now.

Agree 100%

Unless you're on the right and you equate liberals with German appeasement in WWII. I don't think it really has anything to do with left or right or the Internet. It's an example of logical fallacy that's been around for thousands of years. It's called Appeal to Ridicule.

Holy shit.

Good times.

You made me laugh. But I wonder if we just made each other shudder to an equal degree.