uncool2pillow

Poverty=Purity, eh? The music industry is less profitable than ever, except for the absolute lowest common denominator. I'd rather have Wilco music in a commercial than not at all. Right now, that's a false choice, but that's the direction the industry is moving. It's not 1985 any more.

Beltmann makes a great case against Walker and demonstrates how his policies really affect decent people, then ih8music follows it up with rhetoric on par with Rush Limbaugh. Very disappointing. Help me out here, didn't a court strike down the collective bargaining limitations?

Just check that thread about upcoming concert schedules. I don't mind an artist charging what they think the market will bear, and if venues fill up with tickets worth hundreds of dollars, that's just fine, but I think twice at $50 ticket prices let alone 5X that.

$270?? That's freakin' crazy. Neil ought to fellate you for that price.

Pretty cool vids and pix.

Definitely one of his better solo efforts.

Rockin' and Romance (from which Vincent Van Gogh is taken) is probably the most underrated piece of indie rock in existence, IMO.

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Let's be clear. You're mad at him for doing nothing. Comparing him to Chamberlain. But have no ideas to offer. None. Brilliant analysis.

Will the real Francisco Liriano please stand up?

Just got back from Alejandro Escovedo. Pure rock, that man!

Here's another good one. This one's an AP photo. I wonder how long that guy thinks he could march peacefully next to a police officer in China, Syria, or North Korea. No Fascism here, move on please. Don't know why the photo doesn't show, but if you're curious, you should be able to copy and paste the URL.

This is a photo a friend shared from a neighbor. My friend lives on Mich. Ave. so I assume that's the location. Looks like the police state has done a top notch job of silencing the opposition.

I love Rhett and the '97s. Very cool. And recorded for posterity.

The police limit my freedom every fucking day. It's their fucking job. The limit my freedom to drive drunk, to pop a cap in your ass, to litter, etc. what do you think would happen to prosestors in Pyongyang? They would be fucking killed. Please shut the fuck up trying to equate the 2.

Yes. You're right. Chicago = Pyongyang. Perfect.

My wife's pretty sure that's Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray.

Never cared much for disco, but Brian Eno commented to Bowie while they were working in Berlin that he had just heard the future. This was the song he had heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f0h8Pjf4vNM

Mikael sure tweeted lots of cool photos of the place. https://twitter.com/#!/mikaeljorgensen

I hate the Yankees and he's been such abig part of their success that I've never liked him. But, jeez. Not a way to go out.

Very, very sad.

I wish I could remember buying it. I know I dl'd it from Napster first. Some of the tracks were incomplete and I'm pretty sure I got some of the sequencing wrong when I burned a CD. I remember listening to it on the way home from Omaha to Des Moines after a Bob Mould show. At the time, Bob was my favorite. But this was the tour in support of his crappy electronic album, Modulate. That ride home was, in retrospect the beginning of the switch from Bob to Wilco being my favorite.

Not saying I agree, Lamrod, but if it is, that's quite a feat. Also, Anthony, I did the same thing.

As a registered Republican, I pretty much agree w/ this. The Grover Norquist people are NOT deficit hawks. They are interested only in protecting the assets of the wealthy. There is valid concern, IMO, for that. But don't be fooled. Many of them don't give a rat's ass about the deficit.

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