lost highway

It's streaming on NPR. Pretty cool. I think I can take a break from Tweedy and son projects for a while after this one.

Good discussion here guys, good discussion. Is gay marriage going to be full on legal, everywhere, by the time the next president gets elected? Is trying to overturn Obamacare becoming a less politically profitable stance?

Apples and oranges. Dylan could never light up a guitar like Neil, and Shakey's better lyrics are still not as good as Dylan's.

I think the strain on the Dems side is that they've been disingenuously playing the "Israel is perfect" game. Unfortunately Israel has strained that American illusion a lot in the past decade, and some liberals are stuck with the fact that it's taboo not to apologize for a nationalist, xenophobic government that is often in the role of the bully. I noticed the cracks starting to show when Kerry was exhausted by trying to get them to play nice during peace talks. He almost slipped and called them jerks.

Yeah, I think the anti-vaccine deal is pretty non-partisan. Maybe even leans towards liberals with money. I hear talk of using a hike in gasoline tax to address some needed transportation infrastructure upgrades.

Oh yeah. I hope they don't return the last check I wrote. Anyone want a new thread?

Freshmen in Congress seek to overturn Obamacare, while Barack wants to send America to community college. Locally, Colorado might have to give back 30 million in marijuana revenue meaning I can expect an extra 7 bucks on my state tax returns. Ha! Take that schools.

Total soul revival stuff going on here. About a decade ago I was always wondering why more people weren't playing music in that spirit, apparently some other people wondered, and decided to get something going. I keep hearing R&B/Soul throwback sounds in indie bands these days.

So good. I'm due to revisit that one too. And from there maybe some of the better Cassavettes stuff.

I bought myself Adventure Time season 4 on dvd with a Christmas gift card. I think it might be my favorite children's cartoon show ever. The animation, humor, music, all of it is just so good. I can't remember a show making me actually happy like that, but maybe it's from watching too much Dexter.

I'm wondering what's going on with this. Maybe since they're a side project with members in various countries they decided to wait for the Tweedy/ Wilco compilation hype to get it's full day before throwing another related album out there. I just wanna hear it.

The new Sleater Kinney is streaming over at NPR. Good, good stuff.

The notable thing for me at this point, listening to this record, is what a consistently good and engaging double album it is. I can name other 2xlp's with songs I like more (London Calling, White Album etc), but I can't remember a double with this consistency. It all works well to me, I don't find myself wishing one of the songs was cut.

Well they're sprawling and modern, but not quite as crazy as all those, have you tried Mitchell's Cloud Atlas? I've also championed his Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet, here a lot. It's a little closer to a traditional novel, but I can't remember a historical fiction that blew my mind as much as it did. Actually, if you want to tackle a bear that has big ideas and some innovation, I say go back to Thomas Mann and check out the Magic Mountain. It's all about the competition of ideas and values and the project of modernity, playing out at an alpine rest home for the chronically ill. It's

I LOVED that book. Maybe my favorite Irving.

Well maybe I should take the time to flip to the back for my last couple hundred pages. I might have given up too easily on that idea, as I started I was trying to assemble what linearity I could as it jumped back and forth in time, and between characters. Also I didn't fully understand the whole "Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment" etc. commercial dates idea until I read more about the book. Sometimes the Incandenza's remind me a little of Salinger's Glass family, or Anderson's Tennenbaums.

It's so sad. I don't know what the world is supposed to take away from events like this.

I'm about to pull permits to demolish the detached garage and build a recording studio at the house my wife and I bought in 2014. It's gonna be madness.

I've been working on that one (with other books between) for months. My tips: keep a short note on the back of your bookmark to keep the Incandenza family straight, as well as the secret agents, and some of the major tennis kids. If you look at the wikipedia article it can clarify things when you dont see a certain character for 75 pages, it doesn't really spoil anything. I also noticed when I can keep up a good reading diet in my busier weeks (for me a few hours a week can be good) the book is not nearly as laborious as it seems. It takes adjustment and I skip most of the footnotes, but I c

Totally of interest. Some of the pics are illegible, but it's cool to see Kevin Shields' space ship. He's got some Boss EQ pedals with really radical settings on them. Also, I think Tweedy's board tends to change every year or so. Kind of like his amp selection. I'd love to hear him run through his choices and what informed them, but he seems less interested in talking gear nerdery than Nels, other than the occasional rare vintage guitar mention.

My folks are from Rochester and they're always talking about drinking Genesee Cream Ale back in the day. When it was finally distributed in the west, I was surprised and relieved that the 'cream' doesn't mean anything.

I can picture it. I've never met Pat but he seems just as generously nice as John proved to be in a somewhat awkward moment I had with him (the awkward was all me).

Sometimes their English is actually worse.

It is A historic day. The AN is utilized with words that begin with a vowel or words that start with a vowel sound such as 'an hour'. This avoids a glottal stop used to separate consecutive vowel sounds. The use of 'an' before all h words is a recent sort of malapropism spread by the pretentious and unwittingly adopted by the unassuming.

Me either.