lost highway

It's pretty good. 1989 I mean.

What if you just rank the UT albums? Mine would go: Still Feel Gone Anodyne March No Depression

So Jeff is playing through a massive Marshall speaker cabinet these days? Rock!

You, me and several other millions will never like any of them. The point for me is to see which one is popular with those elephants, and if they could actually win. The longer it goes on the less I believe I have the ability to detect that.

I don't know if I'm alone here, but I find Jay's contributions to Trace to be better on the average than Anodyne. And then worse after. Jeff in my eyes did the opposite, his post Tupelo work was weaker and he only grew from there.

Are you talking about one party or both?

Crazy! I'm at Steele Elementary. You?

Wait, do you play for team DPS?

Cool. It makes a huge difference to really get to know the kids and their families for more than one year. We do multi-age, which I like, but I'd still rather loop if I was only doing a single grade. This seems to be the way of things. My school district adopted a curriculum also developed in NY called Expeditionary Learning (formerly packaged as "Engage NY"). It's also all about integrated units, and projects to some extent. Our 4th and 5th graders started their first day of school with an introduction to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pretty crazy. So far it seems great

I started wondering how many full albums you guys figure you listen to in a week. I'd guess I range between 10-20. The lower weeks are often thanks to the shuffle setting on my ipod, or my recent podcast addiction.

I'm a full time 4th and 5th grade teacher and a part time recording engineer.

It has at least two really good songs sandwiched between the crap.

I understand, Louie. I understand.

My favorite moment was when they finished discussing stressful stock market news and then said "Maybe some music from our special guests can cheer us up." Cut to searing noise jam, REEEEEEEEE, the time now is 620 AM.

I think my difficulty with it is that Chris Broach, to his credit, actually learned how to sing instead of just shouting "yeah!". His new singing voice severely changes the character of the band when he sings lead, which seemed like 60% of the time on the new record. I still dig the Bob tunes though.

My question is how can we exploit our own resources more carefully? The economy has simultaneously disinsentivised extraction and environmental precaution. Everyone loses. Off to the side, wind and solar have come a long way in the last decade. The home solar market has been expanding since the rise of entrepreneurial companies in that niche offering more affordable panel technology. Once someone corners the market on a viable storage battery I think we'll see a lot of people going off the grid. Ideally this is the century where we transition off of oil and coal.

I've been thinking about regulation of big oil and our energy policy. Aside from the environmental concerns such as high levels of methane gas (the worst green house gas) from fracking (they're just burning the stuff in ND wells instead of canning it and selling it), it hasn't been working economically the way we are lead to believe. Recent studies have indicated the surplus of American oil has harmed Colorado's economy. They're shutting down drills as the price has fallen to half. I'm paying $2.80 at the pump which is decent but not what you'd expect from a job siphoning surplus. There are

Didn't the GOP resolve to get Latinos behind them after O got reelected? If that was as important as the analysts said they're off to a failing start.

Weezer: everything after Pinkerton. Also, Braid did not need to reunite. 'No Coast' should be redacted.

I'm liking it. It's on the mellow side of ylt's massive range.

Cool thanks. I've made a conscious effort over the years to get to know the gbv classics, and I even worked through the reunion albums to put together a 25 track 'best of' for that era (which is still not quite as good). I suppose it's time to get to know the solo stuff better.

Yay a story! Thanks! The most surprising thing- and I love to read about their process- is that people recorded their parts in overdubs piecemeal. It sounds like such a live performance, jam album. I suppose some of that comes with members being new to the songs and reacting while the tape is rolling.

Remember when we left Vietnam prematurely?

I heard another bit on this from npr. Granted it was the first substantive foreign policy statement from a candidate that most people heard, but I found how beautifully npr took him to task felt pretty partisan. Basically, they played through each of Jeb's proposals for dealing with ISIS and quoted recent military intelligence demonstrating how ineffective each idea is. Then they closed with Jeb defending water boarding. He may be able to speak Spanish, but he's telling the same tale that his brother did.