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P.J. O'Rourke. Though he wrote that a decade before anyone figured out proper conditions for mdma consumption. Simon Pegg's tv series 'Spaced' (Season 1, Episode 06) got it roight. Brits neck beans like they're Chiclets. Americans--cultural children of the Puritans who left England and moved to the States--are too uptight to get it right.

Ali G can enlighten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pux4OC03ewA "is dere a chemical inside it dat ackshully make you dance like a prick?" White Mitsubishi (pure mdma), Blue Dolphins(mdma/mda blend) and any Omega (mda, way too much) = da bomb. At least that's what I've heard from friends.

Word. I tend to fall on the side of the debate that some music could never have been made/perfect games thrown w.out the kicking open the doors of perception that certain substances allow. And yet it's likely a diminishing returns thing. Wayne Coyne claims to have done acid but one time--really how many times do you need to do acid?---and yet his music and live show evince a familiarity with the experience. John Lennon, I recently heard, did acid over 1000 times in his lifetime. which (i) seems impossible (ii) explains Yoko. The avatar image is a piss-take on the recently unveiled 2012 Su

I can't remember when Wayne Coyne said he confronted Steven Drozd about it in Fearless Freaks. I think it was after they finished up Yoshimi in upstate New York but before they started touring for it. Yoshimi sounds the most drug induced of their recent records. Kot's book kinda suggests that, up to that point in time, Tweedy never made a record substance-free. Maybe Bill Hicks was right.

Which one(s)? At War with the Mystics?

Wasn't there some drug use involved back then? Steven "Elliott" Smith ran through $1500 a day to get his fix of whatever he was on. Same for the Flaming Lips dude. Tweedy, Smith and Drozd made some amazing records while on all those substances. Just beautiful.

Without fans a band is nothing. They end up on Bloodshot or New West, playing for free beer, schwag weed and clumsy gropes with 4th tier, sandy vagina groupies in stinky tour vans.

Sandy Vagina - wasn't that the name of Judge Smail's niece in Caddyshack?

What the ? I wondered what the hell was going on. Now how's Fat Boy supposed to peer into my innermost, ah, nevermind.

Guess that explains these milksop commercials that only a soccer mom could love--VW's trying to step up to the next purchasing power weight class. Instead of throwing in a Trek bike with every new VW, they'll throw in a car seat and a 'Baby I'm Bored, *yawn*, we should've bought an Audi' sign.

The only way to know for certain is to round up all the suspiciously young looking Wilco fans, cut them in half and count their rings. WILCO = the Fuzzy Zoeller of band product endorsers. Chop. Chop. Chop.

The only bothersome thing about Wilco songs in VW commercials....why VW? Volkswagen's U.S. market is twentysomethings fresh out of college. Ain't too many 25 year-olds at Wilco shows, out buying Wilco records, decorating their cubes/pubes with Tweedy's visage. Sky Blue Sky songs would be a bit more appropriate in Buick or Saab or Audi or Cadillac commercials. Those VW spots are like shaquille o'neal free throws--ugly and unnatural and painful to watch. I look forward to seeing them over and over all Summer long.

First time I heard Robbie play 'Dancing Queen' was the NYE 1999 show at the end of his "15 minute history of country music" thing, right @ Midnight. Glorious at the time. Here's Robbie doing it on NPR : http://www.mattmullen.net/files/Robbie%20F...20Interview.mp3

I thought that worked both ways--it definitely helped Tweedy and co shift records--but giving YHF (an album that had been around since July the previous year) a perfect 10.0 on its "official" release day was a tipping point for Pitchfork in terms of rising above the Dusted Glorious Noise and becoming most popular/highly trafficked (if not the best) of the music web-zines. Giving 'A Ghost is Born' a mediocre rating was probably a bit of backlash by the PFork crew against Wilco. imo/fwiw/ymwv: 'A Ghost Is Born' has better individual songs and is, in many ways, um, a deeper listening experi

It's not exactly Chicago, but Otto's on June 12th and/or 11th on the way out to Davenport ?

The Hideout Block party one year I turned around and Tweedy, Bennett, Edward Burch and Leroy Bach were on stage. They played mostly Bach/Burch songs, but I thought I remembered via Chicago done with Jeff on vocals, Jay on drums and then later Tweedy on drums for a song or two. http://www.wilcobase.com/event.php?event_key=634 doesn't list via Chicago? I swear they played a hazy, lazy Summer afternoon in Chicago version of it with Jeff on vocals and 'lectric guitar, Burch on keys, Leroy on bass, Jay on drums. There weren't that many people there as it was an earlier afternoon set. IIRC.

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wilco on the cover of Creem and playing snl would have been cool in 1978.

Put the t-tops in the trunk, take the comb out of your back pocket and put it in the center console with change, cigarettes, lighter and gum, spike your big gulp with some whiskey, drive the circuit from McDonald's to the Quik-Mart on the other side of town with this blasting from your tape deck:

The guy takes some chances--the extended voice overs on Fevers and Mirrors and I remember when he played Empty Bottle with the all-female, all dressed in white backing band, like a negative Robert Palmer video--they don't always work out that well. Wide It's Morning, fuck yeah. Lifted...Soil. Both great albums. He has a few side projects, and some contributions on other albums worth checking out, eg. Arab Strap 'Monday at the Hug and Pint'.

Super Furry Animals White Stripes Broken Family Band Mekons Sonic Youth

Metro--when did the National go from Sub-T and Schuba's to Metro? Maybe they're opening for somebody.

Cool. I picked up tickets for this on the off chance it was Brion. Anyone know of any extras for sale for Friday @ Steppenwolf? I slept on that shit.

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