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Oh yeah. DPS, red for ed! But are we going on strike?

Someone using the extensive Let It Be footage is long overdue good news. The fact that the someone is Peter Jackson is a bonus.

Yeah, I saw that on his facebook. Pretty lame. I don't know why they wouldn't want to just make a Nels Cline signature with him.

I dislocated my shoulder for the second time (first time was on a half pipe) playing tether ball against a student when I was a student teacher years ago. Not my proudest moment.

I'm proud to report 4 square is one of the most popular sports at the elementary school I teach at. As for variations of wall ball- this is a perfect example of what seems consistent in most of these favorite toys: the simplicity of the toy enables the complexity and depth of play. It's why legos always beat out those battery powered flipping dogs in the mall in the 90's. All of that technology allows the toy to do one thing, the simplified technology of the lego allows it to do a million things.

Same. I was unimpressed with the Bright Eyes phenomenon at its peak, but his tenacity and authenticity have won me over as a general fan of him as a person. I'm not always taken with his trademark shaky vocals as much as I admire the guy, but I think they're a nice contrast to Phoebe's more conventionally pretty sounding vocals. Also he's chilled out on the 'coked out guy telling-all during an anxiety attack' performance style as he's aged.

I don't know if you folks have tuned into Phoebe Bridgers around here. She's the latest to corner the market on wrenchingly effective, sad-bastard folk music. She teamed up with similarly haunting Julien Baker to create Boygenius last year which was also a great collaboration. Well now her and Oberst have dropped a whole record that's pretty great: https://open.spotify.com/album/5622zSt4RLqNSPShdqmWpj They also showed up on Colbert and got him to honor their 80's 1-800 vision by putting a lo-fi video feed up of it: https://youtu.be/7DSO-w_AxgQ

Those look awesome. I'm not sure if they're still made, but there's probably something similar.

I was playing with my 2 1/2 year old daughter last night and thinking about the difference between the toys we think are cool, but never play with, and the ones that are an endless source of enjoyment. I remember being a kid and having a closet full of crap that looked flashy in the store, or in a commercial, but got boring really quick. This brings in the elite class of toys that aren't actually a waste of space. I'm wondering what yours are from your childhood, or for the parents on here, the ones that are worth the material they're made of. Right now ours are: Anything crayola Play-do

A. Excellent Wilco reference. B. This seems an especially ripe area for sociological/political science study. I head a story today about how Doug Jones had fake news and planted, obviously fake Russian bot profiles pushing for Roy Moore. Unfortunately this trash is not only a GOP thing. It makes sense that many people breeze past it, but there's still a lot there (especially 2016) that's hard to know or measure.

Will Sanders be able to rekindle the flame he lit in 2016?

Here we are weeks later and the shutdown continues. I think each day brings more damage to Trump, but I'm not sure if the Democrats can stomach the price real people are paying for it (parks, unpaid workers). The public sees the shutdown as Trump's fault, he allowed it to be named after him before it started. The longer it goes on, the more crazy he looks. But if he caves and doesn't get something he can call his great wall his base is going to be livid. He's really backed into a corner. I predict he'll take less then he asked for, call it a triumphant wall with extended fencing and stee

Wait, when you guys say 'Warmer' are you talking another album, or an EP?

Some pretty good stuff already mentioned here. I'd add Boygenius to the list. Also somehow a new Cloud Nothings snuck by me, but I haven't heard it yet so I don't know if it makes the list.

Yeah, that's a long list of scary shit. With this shutdown/border wall fight alone (which is probably the most short term of the things you mentioned) I have no idea where it's going to go. I kind of wonder if the republicans are going to drop it down to 2 or 3 billion for the border and the dems are gonna cave.

Holy moly, I can't even keep track of the legal barrage pointed at the Trump team these past weeks. I keep thinking this would be a really cool time to be a professor or a student studying law. Lot's of action.

Interesting to see someone throw Star Wars under the bus. To each their own, but for my money it's the coolest Wilco record. Not the best (or deepest), but definitely the coolest and most fun.

Yesterday's slew of reports from Mueller got me (and political analysts) all excited. I was struck by a Watergate prosecutor who was asked about developments on NPR and said he could clearly see Mueller's investigation as a 'juggernaut' pointed 'straight at Trump'. Some politicians were ready to claim this is already proof of felony campaign finance violations made by Trump. Then my wife said she refuses to get her hopes up. She's pretty smart. I'm not banking on impeachment, I'd settle for humiliation and political neutering at this point.

Yeah, the words that come to mind for this album are 'concise' and 'immediate'. I think some of the songs only grow with understanding the lyrics (Bombs Above for me), but unlike Schmilco that had a lot of very off kilter elements I think Warm is more of your Summer Noon, and Taste the Ceiling side of Jeff's writing. As for the difference between this and Wilco, it's a valid point. This is essentially the first step in how a Wilco record gets made. I think a lot of other things happen once those other guys put their stamp on something, and different material would probably be selected to giv

Any fool can tell the truth.

Oh, and one last thing about this I only caught in the last 10 minutes or so: I love the story about the family's rabbi. First telling Spencer that it's okay if he doesn't believe in god, it's the search that matters, and then the rabbi's later deciding there was no god and rewriting his theology in his 90's. Pretty amazing. Also Jeff saying he wanted to be a jew so there was no question when the shit hit the fan.

I missed the stream, but the whole thing is still up! Watching later.

I got it from the Wilco store, and they emailed me download notifications, there was no little slip with a code in they vinyl packaging.

Yeah, I'm most of the way done listening, he could have researched interview material to avoid cause it's been done, but I don't know if that works- Highlights: Great improvised, witty banter between Jeff and Marc. Atypical interview topics: diet, sleep habits, what freaks them out about life. Lowlights: Retreading things that were prominent in the book. Even some of the repeated stuff was still fun to hear, if only because Marc has a way of getting out of the interview paradigm and turning it into two smart people talking about their experience.