Queen Amaranthine

The Homer reference just makes it all the better.

Love love love this song!

I hear tinges of Fleetwood Mac in it, but maybe that's just me.

This CD has been in constant play in my car since it arrived. I got the deluxe edition and have been having so much fun with the main disc that I forgot about the 2nd one!

Very cool to be able to play so many instruments! I'm musically challenged myself, but I'd consider any musical ability to fall under artistic.

I missed U2 when they played on my campus, a stone's throw from my dorm, when I was in college in the late 80s. I have plenty of excuses. None of my friends were that into music and I didn't want to go alone, the tickets were more than my starving college student budget could afford, and I had night class that night. I remember a couple of weeks before the show, the professor, who was an otherwise really cool guy, chastising a couple of students who had tickets, warning them that it would be counted as an unexcused absence.

Missed Pink Floyd when they too played on campus. My then-boyfriend, now husband, asked me to go with him but we decided not to go at all for no reason. We still kick ourselves for that.

In my 30s, when I resigned myself to being "too old" to pine for live music anymore, I found Wilco. Although I've seen them live "only" 7 times, I am grateful for the opportunity to not have to shelve my love for rock music. It feels like a second childhood!

i don't have any tattoos

i don't either, nor do I have a desire for one. I've seen some cool ones, and each to his or her own, but I don't want one myself. NPR did a story not too long ago about how there are no regulations or standards for tattoo inks, so it's hard to say what they contain.

Outside of Shania Twain, I can't tell one pop country music star from another. To me they are all twangy dudes in cowboy hats and chicks with fluffy hair. I have no idea what the latest top country songs are. The closest I get to country music is an occasional listen to Uncle Tupelo.

I'd like to hear them do Neil Young's "Harvest Moon."

Way cool interview, and I love her artwork--fantastic paintings there on the Wilcoworld website. I'd like to see a picture of the original painting as is too.

My young son, who loves to draw and create things with a variety of media, is intrigued by TWL CD art. It caught his eye when I had it sitting on the kitchen table after it arrived in the mail. All this makes me want to get back into painting, etc. again, which I haven't had time for between parenting and working extra time the past few years. In the interview, I thought it was funny that Joanne said time is slowing down for her as she gets older. I'm finding time is doing quite the opposite for me!

Does anyone else here draw, paint, take artsy photos, or do anything artistic?

Actually, I did find this interesting. Thanks for posting! I too am 44 and can relate to that "do what you do on your own terms" vibe, regardless of what others think or expect. It took me a long time to reach that, but it's sweet to be at it now.

"You and I" in Kohls this afternoon.

Absolutely innovative. I LOVE my ipod touch and am waiting for my service provider to start supporting iphone--it's gotta happen eventually. The practicality and creativity blended into the ipod/iphone, as well as the ipad which is on my tech wish list, are amazing.

I downloaded the free version to my Kindle, for my son to use as a book report. When he changed his mind about what book he wanted to do, I started to read it myself. Just for the hell of it.

 

Enjoying this a lot more than I thought that I would.

I LOVE Dickens. Some friends and fellow avid readers cringe when I say that, but he was an amazing storyteller.

So it's not "almost insist upon treating you kind of fair" but "almost insist upon treating you kind and fair." When I first heard it and thought it was "kind of fair," I was thinking it was a narrator/persona confession or maybe unreliable narrator kind of deal, that he wasn't as kind to his beloved as he could have been. The word "almost" speaks to that in a sense, too. Plus, there's a sense of subtle arrogance in the idea that it's the narrator, not the beloved, who has the open mind.

Anyway, the actual lyric makes the song more heartfelt, I like it either way, but it's a bit sweeter knowing the actual lyric.

My one word review of TWL: swoon!

My 6-year-old budding artist is enchanted with the lyrics booklet art in the deluxe edition. He loves the colors and is curious about the abstract art.

Have young kids? Oct 6 is Read for the Record:

http://www.wegivebooks.org/pf/rftr/

There ought to be other show menu items to request on their website in addition to songs. Jeff with or without glasses? Suit jacket or denim jacket? Band with beards or clean shaven? Banter level: light, medium or heavy? Hair wild or relatively tame? ;-)

Love the diva question! Elvis, lol

Wilco coffee--I gotta look into that.

Finally there's something to be said for living out in the sticks. For the Des Moines presale I sauntered online an hour and a half after the presale began (I'd been in a meeting with no Internet access & therefore couldn't try right away) and got tickets, no problem.

Considering that the Des Moines show is followed by 2 in a great venue in Minneapolis and then Chicago, there might be, what, 100 fans in attendance at DM?

"Sing some strange verse

From some strange song of vines

And you'll be where you want to be""

"There are so many things

I must leave alone"

It's a drag-ass snag...I'm always in love!

"Remember when you were in Uncle Tupelo? Wasn't that cool?"[media]

My question is somewhat, um, unconventional considering it's a musician we are asking! Where else would I find the answer in any interview available online or in a music magazine, though?

I've read that you were tested for allergies and results showed that you are allergic to many, many things. I totally relate and my food/pollen/dust/other? allergies have affected my life in many ways. My "one" question: Can I ask you a dozen more questions about how your allergies have affected your health, migraines, thought process, diet, etc.?

The Buddhist-esque lines in War on War. It's parts of the Tibetan book of the dead and other Buddhist texts alive in song!

"You could be my demon moving forward through the flaming doors"

"You have to learn how to die if you want to want to be alive."

Poor Places, where the music...I don't know the musical term...shifts for lack of a good word?, right before the lyrics "Someone ties a bow" then right after "smoking and I want love."

I will miss Borders.

Me too. I wasn't so lucky at finding good music bargains there, but I was lucky at finding great books on the reduced price shelves. Their cafe will be missed too.

My bargain bin strengths are books and clothes so sorry I've derailed the topic a bit here, but I had to lament the loss of Borders.

I don't ever, EVER recall anyone saying they didn't like Glenn. All the talk I remember was that Ken was well-suited to power-pop, and that he was dismissed in a shitty way.

It's been a few years, obviously, but I do remember some talk about that. I remember it because it surprised me.

You've got motherfucking Glenn Kotche in the band, LET HIM BANG ON SOME SHIT. And not just in a song or two.

Fans aren't always happy with change, and this brought to mind some debate on this board eons ago about who is the better drummer, Glenn or Ken Coomer? Not everyone was at ease with Glenn, at least at first. He was the drummer when I first heard Wilco and is the only drummer I've seen with the band live, plus I've seen him solo too. I think he's creative and amazing to see in action. But I don't have the history in hearing past drummers live or the older albums when they were new.

So is it Glenn or Coomer...BT or SBS...all about perspective. And if others don't like what we individually like, it doesn't need to keep us from enjoying what we do, for whatever reasons we do. I'm so zen today.

Someone mentioned Tweedy's songwriting ability post-rehab. Somewhat related, I remember reading something (wish I could remember what it was, exactly) awhile back about Edgar Allan Poe and his use of strong visual imagery in his stories and poems. It is believed that Poe had a strong right-brain dominance, evident through his use of vivid words/visual imagery, a hallmark of right brain. Poe was alcoholic, and that same article I read said that strong right-brain-dominant thinkers have a tendency toward addiction and self-destruction. Thinking of lyrics in albums pre-rehab, Jeff's lyrics overall have far more vivid visuals and cryptic symbolism than they do post-rehab. So, does addiction have an impact on the brain, and songwriting? For better or worse? Or is the lyric shift a conscious choice to do something new?

I can't look at much objectively!

Tell us, when did you get into Wilco? It seems that old-timers are least likely to get into SBS, while those who found the band through SBS have special love for it. Totally understandable!

For me, the last 2 songs are great, and I'm arguably one of the few who adores What Light. It's Side w/ the Seeds and Shake It Off that I would rate lowest, but that's just me and my quirky likes & dislikes. I love the rest of it, even though it took me so long to get it. No, it doesn't suck at all, far from it. But for some--and I can't speak for everyone, of course, but based on what I read here and my own initial reaction to the album--it might be that shift from YHF and AGIB that is hard to...well, shake off, to use part of a song title.

I joined this board during the YHF era and remember a few still grumbling about the ST and YHF shift from A.M. and Being There, so it's just a matter of time, perspective, and individual tastes.

So, either way....