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Lameness. So glad I caught him on tour a couple years ago. He brought so much joy through rock music.

Lorde. I love Lorde way too much.

Thanks! That's maybe the only Bennett and Kotche version (maybe same the next night of that tour). I wish it was as good a capture as some of the others. I never realized how few shows feature both members.

I farted around in the Wilco Archive for a bit and found they opened with it in this show back in Nov of 99. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B5xZV5X8KwRCTzFDdkhraklaXzA Much more Jay Bennett guitar forward doing the loud electric tremolo stuff. Ken Coomer mostly stays out of the way and does a couple loud crashes during the noise part. Not nearly as developed. Now to find an '01 version with Jay Bennett and Glenn Kotche... I'm curious.

That era was the first time I saw it, but then again it was the first time I saw them so I figure I missed some things.

Yeah, someone with a deep vault of all the live shows might be able to find a show in maybe 98 or 99 and see how they played it way back when.

I thought it interesting when reports said that Trump and McConnell had backed an "establishment figure" and how an upstart had won. If I'm correct, many Trump supporters still see him as challenging the establishment, when he is the establishment. Sure it's a new regime, but there's a new definition for "business as usual in Washington" and that business is full of cronies, but also dysfunctional.

They still have a week to pass something with a simple majority, although that's looking slim again- thank the Gods.

I suppose that makes it a truly gutsy piece of art. It connected with someone and infuriated another. I'm really looking forward to Jawbreaker-24 Hour Revenge Therapy, and I've been saying that Wilco-A Ghost is Born is the greatest Wilco story never told. It might have some tough times in it, but of the most "classic" Wilco records, it's the one not immortalized by Kot's book, or a documentary. It's really an artistic peak and the transition from sick Tweedy going in, to healthy Tweedy going out on tour with the record.

I've read a ton of them, their range of quality is completely disconnected from the quality of the album they're about (which those are all great anyways). Memorably good: Velvet Underground, Eliot Smith XO, Television Marquee Moon, Beach Boys-Pet Sounds (music theory heavy, but that's kind of my bag) Memorably bad: The Replacements-Let It Be (Colin Meloy decides to make it a story about how he discovered rock and roll, ugh), Radiohead-OK Computer (complete with a semiotic analysis of the compact disc as a media format)

Nice to hear Spencer is still at it. I really like the design on that website, it's unusual and charmingly minimal. I also am jealous that he's a young man in college with a rack full of API preamps in his home studio, that didn't happen to me until I was around 30.

Good tune. I think it's kind of channeling Neil Young's "Walk On" from On the Beach in some vague way.

Finally got around to American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Half way through and I dig it. Over the summer I hit up Murakami: Kafka on the Shore, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, as well as a couple sequels by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide series. I guess I'm really into nerdy, not realistic stuff right now.

I also seem to remember someone who was at a Living Room show heard a new song he said he'd been recording that week. When they asked what it was for he said he couldn't tell. Hmmm.

No, I have no news. I am wondering if anyone has seen any hints on what's ahead, maybe in 2018. We've kind of been spoiled with a record in 2015 and 2016, so it might be a while before a new Wilco record proper, but who knows? Is the "Loft Acoustic Sessions" idea going to pick up with another release? Is Jeff going to finish his memoir? Will there be a new Tweedy record? At this point, quiet on new projects for this long almost seems odd as we've been so lucky to have something new to look forward to every half a year or so for the majority of the last few years.

I love that they thought to lip sync each others parts. Hilarious. Great song too.

I know there are so many good people that were preparing for this and are working on no sleep to help people down there. I also know that weather is inherently difficult to predict. All that said, you'd think at this point our nation could mount a better defense against this kind of disaster in advance. There should be more ways to mobilize responders from outside of the region, and to evacuate people inside the region faster. I don't know exactly who or what I'm critiquing here, I just wish I could count on more systems to protect folks in the area.

Granted, I only scanned the transcript, but I was shocked to see that I didn't find his Afghanistan strategy to be totally insane. I don't think it's going to solve the unsolvable, but it's pretty much holding the Obama line but with a slight troop increase. The real problem is there is no military solution for our nation's longest war, only a diplomatic one. Trump has proven almost pathologically horrible at diplomacy.

Yeah, like maybe a couple notches better than everything since they got back to it, right? I've only streamed it but it seemed like it had more memorable tunes than Class Clown, or Bears for Lunch etc.

My votes are: Alien Lanes Bee Thousand Under the Bushes Isolation Drills Earthquake Glue

Go on.....

Well, from how I interpret the title and the ongoing rhetoric of the "All lives" slogan and its disingenuous application by politicians, maybe I can offer some perspective. The statement of "All Lives Matter" is not an activist statement, or a charitable one. It is a political slogan to combat "Black Lives Matter". It's frustrating because people who work for, or even feel support for BLM's central effort would never suggest any life doesn't matter. It'd be like someone who worked for years to help the people of Sudan and was promoting their cause so a bunch of numbskulls would retort "All c

I know we all know this, but I just need to say it: The reason Washington and Jefferson are not "next" is because they helped create the U.S.A. It's a different thing to take down statues of Confederate generals because they were fighting against the United States. They were fighting against the country we live in. We all know that's not the same thing, right? I mean even if the president doesn't- we do, right? We're gonna make it through this, right? See also "slippery slope fallacy".

"Your skin so thin your heart has escaped." I can think of no better indictment of Trump's character.

"All lives, all lives you say? I can see you are afraid. Your skin, so thin your heart has escaped. All lives, all lives you say. You were born at the end of a noose. What was up came down with the blues. But you don't know how to sing anything anyway. So all lives, all lives you say. My, my, My mind is gone. It's too hard for me to know when I'm wrong. This is the last dying gasp of a deadly lung turning blue on a lawn in the sun." Someone tell me if I misheard something. I think I know who this song is directed at!