lost highway

I imagine they might have a single Warmer LP, or a deluxe double album package. Seems pretty doable.

He talked a lot in some guitar nerd magazine I read about having enough time on his hands with his daily Loft work, and Wilco being on year-long sabbatical, that he figured out how to record electric guitar parts that sound like pedal steel. The truth is, even after the hours he spent doing that, it was probably way easier than learning pedal steel.

Laura Jane Grace is the front woman for Against Me! and this is her first solo album. Against Me! rose out of the underground as a touring punk band with many critically acclaimed albums, their singer came out as transgender and transitioned to be a woman, a process chronicled in their record "Transgender Dysphoria Blues". The early Against Me! stuff was kind of lo-fi folk punk heavy on sing alongs, they gradually became more electric hi-fi punk with sing alongs. Also, this should probably be in the 'Someone else's song' thread.

Didn't make it out into the fray today. Please share impressions of the record, guys, when you've had a moment to form them.

I feel like I'm probably supposed to read that one. Maybe if I stay on a non-fiction kick I'll jump into it next. Agreed on Sacks writing. He's one of those writers who makes my loved ones suffer from me randomly sharing something I'm thinking about that I just read.

Oliver Sacks' The River of Consciousness I always loved his contributions to the Radiolab podcast. I perused my local library and randomly ended up with his last book before his death. It might have made more sense to start with one of his older staples, but I never seem to get into bands, directors, writers in the normal sequence. Anyway, if like me you love science in the sense of the big ideas, the history and philosophy of science while not being particularly bright enough to follow the nitty gritty processes to be a scientist yourself this book is great. So far I'm just in the section

I watched her ACL performance on youtube while grading papers this weekend. Her band is off the charts, like My Morning Jacket, Wilco level live band. They hit all the dynamics: intimate folk, blazing rock etc.

I'm just going to park Representative Schiff's words here because they're worth revisiting: “My colleagues might think it’s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign,” he said. “My colleagues might think it’s OK that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help — no, instead that son said he would ‘love’ the help with the Russians. You might thi

I'm not rooting for an economic downturn. It's more like you have a sunshine candidate who's ignored the forecast and you see clouds on the horizon. You know it won't go well for him. Also in spite of the recent years of plenty it's clear that our economy is still not working for everyone.

Don't worry guys. Trump has two years to shit the bed. The economy is going to slow down and he already stepped in it by talking about killing Obamacare in the middle of his 'victory lap'.

Yeah, they do love throwing the millionaire inheritor, fraud, casino guy in with them as just another underdog. "Poor guy got kicked around by that evil report that didn't blame him, and shows he's innocent, and no you should never see it." Oh man, I'm afraid.

I'm not in anyway challenging what y'all are saying about this being a re-election boon for 45- his entire presidency defies logic. I will say that if that's true it also defies logic. So voters would say: this guy didn't verifiably commit treason against our nation, so hell yeah I'm voting for him?

Wow that Mueller thing didn't turn out as bad for Trump as I predicted.

Finally got around to La Belle Sauvage from The Book of Dust trilogy by Phillip Pullman, you know the new entries into The Golden Compass/His Dark Materials books. I feel like a huge dork after typing that. Anyways, 150 pages in and it's fantastic. Vivid, fast moving, full of mystery, great economy of language and efficient characterization. If the Golden Compass books felt like they were for 13 year olds- but so good anyone could read them- this feels more like an easy read aimed at adults who loved the other books as kids.

I'm new to her and psyched as well. God she ripped the roof off that place at the Grammys. The album version of that tune is so great too, really well produced. I like that she's supposedly an "americana" artist but her latest record sounds like Jeff Buckley and vintage Radiohead at moments.

I don't mean to be prejudiced, but anyone who fills a flask with clear liquor is not to be trusted.

Yes, thank you for putting this into words. I feel like none of the pundits, or news comedians have hit this point yet. Cohen did lie. He lied to protect Trump. You can't then call him a liar in order to protect Trump yourself when his very lies were in the service of Trump.

Yay, it's true! Does anyone know if this is another full length, or just a bonus track EP?

Full dang circle.

I think so, but I'm not quite the political/legal scholar I was describing above. I hope we're both right.

I think the hardest possible outcome for me to accept will be never knowing the basics of what's in the report. That might happen too.

Carve your initials in the tree over there.

I hate Ann Coulter, but if she's ragging on Individual 1 that might mean a shift in his base which is great. I think I said it before (maybe biannually) but holy shit, what a time to be a legal scholar. This emergency declaration is going to play out in court and it's got tremendous civic and constitutional implications. And a legal scholar I am not, but I feel that the semantics of the word "emergency" should come in to play. To me the word contains some sense of something new happening. As in, you can't have a decades old emergency. Our situation at the border is decades old.

The question returns: Is it possible to enjoy an artist's output and disregard their abhorrent behavior? I'm not talking about buying concert tickets or new records, but does this mean 'Love is Hell' is no longer fun to listen to? I struggled with this when Louis C.K. got into trouble. I so loved his work, and now I hate him as a dude. Haven't decided if I can keep those things separate, but I can understand both sides of the argument.

At this point I wouldn't make any assumptions about Wilco's studio process. While Jeff does seem pretty locked in to a regiment working by himself in songwriting/pre-production, the band has set a lot of different agendas for how they have completed a lot of different records.