lost highway

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!

"Please tell my father I love him still Forget the railroad and all those bills Head for the cooler And drink your fill Please tell my father I love him still"

"Annnnnd Smashmouth," "Yeah?" "Fuck off."

Good stuff?

The Mooch quotes just underlined how dysfunctional the white house is as a team. Shitty management and the staff keeps canabalizing itself. I am continually surprised by how little criticism there is from people who actually support Trump's agenda. He's blowing it for them. All to my chagrin.

Yeah McConnell is an unreedemable piece of garbage, fortunately like Trump he's delightfully shitty at accomplishing his horrid goals.

Yes! http://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote

If I interpret this correctly as an incredibly dry way to remind me that Hitler thought he was doing what's best, my hat's off to you for subtlety and wit.

^ I hear all of that, but (oh shit is this the part where I experimenting with defending McCain) but how do you square that with him voting down the senate bill? What he did was call for a bipartisan dialog and a more traditional legislative process. His vote to begin their chaotic procedure in spite of calling it unlikely to succeed could be interpreted as mere politics in the more negative sense of the word. It could all be show, but I still prefer his show to many of his ilk.

I agree with this completely. I think most of the respect I have (which motivated me to share) is coming from him being earnest. I think he really believes his agenda will help the citizens of our country. He's wrong, but at least he believes. Unlike a certain NY real estate mogul turned reality TV star turned leader of the free world.

There's no predicting where the circus will land this time around: something severe like the legislation they've already drafted, failure to pass anything as the Senate has failed twice, or some watered-down semi-partisan thing that merely screws over 5 million people instead of 25. My vote is for failure, unless somehow they just decide to talk to Democrats about how to bring down costs for states whose markets have been less kind- fix it instead of repeal it. Oh look at me dreaming.

I'm pretty sure it's my wife's favorite "Wilco album", so I guess there's a lid for every pot.