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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.

First spin, it feels like a winner. How Hard is it for a Desert to Die doesn't grab me as much as the rest. Having Been... is even better recorded than the live versions. The Red Brick is not nearly as challenging to the listener as some of the reviews made it out to be. Just kind of cool stoner rock vibe. It's funny, this is the first Tweedy related release where I actually liked the singles as they were released and find they capture the spirit of the album. On all the other records they've always thrown me off and haven't endeared themselves to me until I heard them in the space of

I saw a report that Trump's tax lawyer's office was raided by the Feds. I hope it's true.

How did everyone get it a day early?

My morning commute only got me into the very beginning. Fascinating facts: The Tweedy family, including Jeff is all vegan at (was it Spencer or Sammy's?) insistence. Jeff considers himself a polyphasic sleeper. Sometimes talking about life stuff with a great creative mind is just as interesting as their creative stuff.

I like the bit about how Tweedy knows how to make the beautiful sound strange, and the strange sound beautiful. That's an insightful comment on his abilities.

I just saw this is going up on Thursday. Listen at the WTF website, or wherever you get podcasts (as Marc would say). At first I thought it was going to coincide with the book tour, but they waited for the record to drop.

This is the first song of hers I ever heard that I didn't like. I've been pretty attached to her over the last few years, so I might just need to adjust to a big change of style from her. Also: Heck yeah to a new Bob Mould record. The single is really good.

I get that a lot of people dig the Golden Smog records, but I think if you put them in the context of Tweedy's entire story they're like a cool thing he worked on with some cool people he knew for a couple days where he offered a couple songs (which we all love). I don't think they're a major narrative landmark in his life. If he barely had time to talk about John Stirratt how would he have time to talk about his buddy from the Jayhawks?

There were a few record shops in downtown Denver I'd make the pilgrimage to as often as possible starting at age 12. As I got into my teenage years and became friends with a few people working in these joints I'd show up and talk with them. They'd put stuff on the turntable, or I'd put headphones on at the CD listening station. Their knowledge was formative. And there were the folded up catalogs for the independent labels inside of their CDs. And there were fanzines. And there were mixtapes from your friends. The knowledge of all of these things was almost more valuable than the cost

Guys I found a new insight that's therapeutic to me as I meditatively was repainting a bookshelf yesterday. I offer it here in hopes that others find it helpful: Trump is one of the saddest people on the planet. No, not that you should feel sorry for him, but just consider his words and his actions. Consider his face and the vacuum of his eyes. The dude stumbled into the highest office and he's getting no satisfaction. All of his blustering, and lies, and bragging is all a sign of how empty and frustrated he feels. He is clinically unable to feel secure, or satisfied. The factual world pai

Did you hear the latest on Ivanka? But her emails ..... lock her up.