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My Canon G10 takes really nice pictures. It's kind of half way between a point and shoot and an SLR. It has a few bells and whistles but you can always just use it in automatic mode.

AKG C4000b AKG D112 AT 4033 x2 AT 4047 Beyer M160 Beyer M201 EV RE10 EV PL95 Groove Tubes MD1 x2 Sennheiser e604 x3 Sennheiser e602 Shure KSM 137 Shure KSM 141 x2 Shure SM7 Shure SM57 x3 Preamps: API x2 Chandler Germanium Focusrite Great River x2 Sytek x8

I think what non-teachers don't understand is this: lazy teachers don't teach. It's pretty hard to be a teacher and be lazy. Where I work, at the elementary level it is impossible. You can get paid that money and be lazy somewhere else. That's not really part of the teaching paradigm. You have to love the job to do it, because it's really hard work no matter how you cut it.

Interesting, I feel like they don't get the credit they deserve. They are looked at as "that Blister in the Sun band". I see them in this continuum that started with the Velvets, took an interesting turn with the Modern Lovers and wound up with the Violent Femmes. Songs like Add it Up and Gone Daddy Gone are just so cool. Some bands become so huge and only expose one of their dimensions in the process. It then becomes incredibly unpopular to have an authentic interest in them. I always think that it's amazing that Stone Temple Pilots actually put out a great record. Like being a Viole

I'm jealous of those. For my part: Braid Stereolab Hot Water Music At the Drive-In Fugazi The Murder City Devils American Steel Quicksand Burning Airlines Jets to Brazil The Promise Ring Rival Schools Rage Against the Machine Kid Dynamite My high school years and right after were full of really cool punk, post-punk, post-hardcore etc. experiences.

If you haven't already, check out his new band Forgetters. They have a four song EP available on itunes which is very lo-fi but has outstanding songs. Kind of like Unfun but a little more mature.

Deficit reduction has now replaced 'Fighting terrorism' as the grab bag people can put their own agenda on. Walker hates unions so he uses a current event to mount an attack. Somehow the same people freaked out about our deficit want to keep the Fed Gov funding Nascar, yet they want to cut funding for PBS. The damndest thing about all of these recent issues is how rarely the main stream media discusses how much something costs/saves in relation to the budget with both a dollar sign and a percentage. Americans have to read publications like the Economist to obtain simple, accessible, prop

Uh Huh Her was her last real 'rock' album. Couple years ago she put out White Chalk which is all spooky piano, falsetto, cloudy day in England, pumpkin pie, Victorian demon music (that's how I hear it). Let England Shake is sonically lighter but subject matter just as heavy as White Chalk. Lots of bouncy, jazzy rhythms on sparse guitar, xylophone, autoharp, brushes on a drum set with well-crafted lyrics meditating on the fall of an empire and the toll that war takes. Some post-modern sampling too: hunting party horns, 'Blood and Fire' a reggae classic by Niney and Friends. I also have a

King of Limbs is great. I find it more challenging and dry than In Rainbows. I feel like there are a lot of new things happening for the band. Not what I would call a retread. If you listen to Videotape at the end of In Rainbows, at the very end there is this odd-timed, kind of invasive hi-hat loop. At first it's almost obnoxious and then it becomes mesmerizing. I feel like that was the first premise for King of Limbs. The first few tracks have these fast, weird loops that pierce through these elliptical jazz guitars and Thom's slow moving melodies. It's kind of tense, hectic and seren

That fresh new Studer won't hurt the sound of their records.

Are you a bad fan if you download it from some anonymous source and then later buy a physical copy? Ethics.....

SBS is a winter record. WTA is a summer record.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think the first half is flawless. WTA is a really cool album.

I figure they really want to sell some records, but I can imagine a type of Wilco record; something like More Like the Moon and some of the stuff from the Wilco Book. Messier, less hi fi, more spontaneous sounding. I want Robert Pollard to produce a Wilco record.

I wouldn't pay too much heed to that date. The catalog number next to the album is 00000. Maybe I'm just hoping it will be a few months sooner.

I am a rock and roll singer and have tried many things to hear a new sound come out of my voice. The sound of Jeff's scream is impossible to replicate. Science does not know of a way. He uses this fact to mock the mere mortals during Wilco's performance of Kingpin on the Ashes of American Flags DVD.

I think you could put Panthers, Kicking TV, Magazine Called Sunset, Bob Dylans 49th Beard, More like the Moon, and the Good Part on there. I think it would be cool if they did this as a double disc or a box set. I'm sure there are recordings of songs we've never even heard of. They could pick through and put a couple of the best ones on there. I'd buy it.

Woah, I wasn't ready for the unsubstantiated Obama knocks. I think I'll stay away from this until it jumps to the "Tongue Tied" side of the forum.

I don't think I'd ever heard a solo Muzzle of Bees before. That was REALLY impressive. Easily the most technically difficult stuff I've ever heard Tweedy do on acoustic guitar, and totally beautiful at the same time.

At some point there will have to be a double disc b-sides and outtake album. Starting with Student Loan Stereo and Blasting Fonda, working its way to Dark Neon. Many of the albums have four or five outtakes that no one has heard. I'm sure it wouldn't all be top shelf stuff, but it would be good to hear it all together.

I know what you mean. Strange enough, White Chalk is actually one of my favorites. Especially in the fall. But that brings us back to the "all of the time" part of it. I might have a harder time being in the mood for 'Dry'. Every month that passes, more recorded music is available. I have a 120 GB Ipod that is always finding new content. So, in a way my listening doesn't really follow the "all the time" prescription, since I have so much stuff I can spontaneously gravitate towards. "All of the time" is more like: what really seemed like a good idea that morning/afternoon/night. Cou

Dinosaur Jr. Miles Davis Husker Du Brad Mehldau Samiam Nick Drake Jawbreaker The first 7 or 8 Elvis Costello records The Clash Feist Billy Holiday Fugazi Hot Snakes Radiohead Mark Lanegan PJ Harvey Regina Spektor Manu Chao Otis Redding Charles Wright and Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band Charlie Parker Harry Nillson about 90% of the time

BTW, if Van Morrison hasn't sold you yet check out Astral Weeks. If you're still not sold, don't invest any more time.

Yes! I've read so much glowing press on these guys that I always end up streaming their newest record, or someone burns it for me. How can such blase' music be packaged so well that people interpret it as multi-layered intellectualism (their prerogative by the way, just trash talking here). I see photos of them with a million and a half cool instruments on stage, and then the new single comes out and all I hear are guitars. Ooooh great a cheap Bruce Springsteen knock-off with some New Wave tendencies obsessing over suburban angst, or political soap boxing. I'm also disappointed with Lad

Yeah, it's been over a decade since I called myself a "punk rocker" (hee hee) and I still find a lot of these bands that have been mentioned are holding up well. Aggressive, melodic and primitive rock an roll- what's not to love? I would throw X, and Stiff Little Fingers to the list of classic punk bands mentioned. Then you take it further into the 80's and 90's and the list just gets longer.