lost highway

Nice, The trailer captivated me. It's on the watch list for sure. I finally made it around to Barry and I'm binging it at 2-3 episodes a night. It's so good. Has the same worlds collide wackiness that Dexter had, but less campy, more cool. Also very funny.

This kind of speaks to recent points you guys are making: It's interesting to me that the scramble to support the assassination of Soleimani has only gotten messier and they haven't really put up anything to back their decision..... annnnd it seems like the media and the public has all but moved on in a week.

I seriously decompressed with some camp/trash/popular binge watching: The Witcher- cheesy in a self-aware way, gorey, over the top fantasy The Mandalorian- I liked it best when it was a series-long arc, there were a few one-off procedural episodes in the middle that felt a little too Xena Warrior Princess for me, but the high parts were high. I also watched His Dark Materials, and also thought it was an overall success. I've read all of the Pullman books from the series so I had pretty high hopes. My wife and I finally finished Orange Is the New Black. We agreed two seasons ago that it h

I agree, and disagree. Most anything in Bolton's spidery attic of neocon policies is abhorrent to me. Yet within that worldview is a form of patriotism (perhaps even nationalism) that however violent, still operates with a certain code of ethics. Bolton may celebrate the bombing of civilians to exert force on the world, but he wouldn't celebrate a U.S. politician pressuring a foreign government to investigate an American. By all accounts he was strongly against it. On top of that he has personal beef with Trump now. All of this coupled with the fact that he may be at the end of his career coul

I'm wondering if Bolton's willingness to testify is a result of his calculation that the situation in the Senate is so in the GOP's pocket that he'll never have to.

While this space continues to be an uncommonly civil place on the web for political discourse, we got awfully slow last year probably from exhaustion and burnout. The Trump years have taken their toll. The ongoing barn storm of this presidential term may render anyone to be understandably disinterested in analyzing every flaming turd of political news flying at us daily, but it does not change the sheer academic curiosity that is the impeachment proceedings. This is an experiment in American civics that threatens to test the very notion of checks and balances. In other news we have potent

Yeah, in a century the impeachment will be the main idea for Trump in a trivia question.... hopefully without a remarkable second term as part of that. It's funny how he had to shell out 2 million dollars for charity fraud a couple weeks ago on top of all of this. It was interesting when he screwed over the Kurds in Syria how the conservatives actually turned on him for a hot minute. Otherwise it seems they'll stick by him through anything. Meanwhile I keep hearing two reasonable, compelling and contradictory arguments: 1) you can't win a purple state with a radically progressive politi

Man, I want them to start playing that one live, even if it doesn't settle in for several shows.

^ Proof that this is successful parody: I heard the melody in my head while I read it, and I laughed.

Sunloathe- the Solstice Song

I'm a Dreamer In My Dreams of a White Christmas I'm Frosty the Snowman Who Loves You At Least That's What You Said You'd Get Me Born Alone (in a manger) It's too bad they don't put Wilco puns on Bob's Burgers.

I feel like I should use these for lyrics.

Oh yeah... also..... Reservations made me tear up just a little.

That was life-affirming and awesome. I'll echo what people have been saying on this tour: these guys are on fire. A couple randome observations: War on War is sounding especially good. The crescendo at the end was so perfect thanks in part to Mr. Kotche's musicality. I couldn't resist the urge to point at Pat to my buddy while he was doing some excellent glockenspiel work with one hand while playing the organ with the other. While I've seen the similar setlists posted here, as Jeff would emphatically point out, reading a setlist and being in the room for it are two totally different thin

I can't for the life of me discern the purpose of a bot uttering such arbitrary banalities. Maybe if we engage with it, it would try and sell us tickets to Hawaii?

Can someone please tell me what is happening?

Yeah, I think it was a short-lived experiment. A lot of people have a hard time getting used to those little ear monitors- doesn't feel as rockin.

Or you just haven't purchased a crummy pressing.

Yeah my Ode to Joy has a few tracks that are totally undermined by the pressing quality. That and the latest Andrew Bird... a few others I can't think of. Bad vinyl has such a distinct sound, it pretty much just sounds like there's lint on the needle when there isn't.

Hey gang, I'm being a little hyperbolic to inspire discussion, but I'm starting to think the standards for pressing records have gone down. Several brand new records I've purchased (including one by Wilco), all on bigger indie labels have pretty poor audio quality compared to the cd, or download. Lots of distortion and muffling. The range of clarity depending on the track is pretty huge. Any LPs outer grooves will sound a little better than the inner ones, but a half dozen records I've bought over the last year or so sound like there's lint on the needle. I started to think my turntable, or

Yeah the footage from the end of IATTBYH with Leroy and a laptop is interesting. They were using in-ear monitors and using lower stage volume. It was the most mini-ensemble they've ever been.

That's an astute, musical observation.

The best one!!! I really hope they get that one going before they make it to my town in a few weeks.

Same here, it's awesome to take risks when covering something. Their risk just wasn't very rewarding. Whereas Twin Peaks and Nora Jones didn't take much of a risk at all, and it was just kind of 'meh' (for lack of a more intelligent word). What I did love was Ohmme, Sharon Van Etten, Mountain Man (holy shit!), Courtney Barnett, Low, Jen Cloher, Jim Elkington, Liam Kazar (doing Sunloathe no less) and Handsome Family. In fact I think I'll put those 9 on a playlist and listen to it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8DxQbIhRkg Took me two minutes to find Mikael, I thought he sat this one out. Also, Glenn's ability to flip his brush around for some fills, and take others one handed is pretty sweet.