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    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Front left pocket. I don't carry a wallet. About 10 years ago in a shop in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, I bought a cardholder made from a recycled bicycle tire. It is labeled 'Used Rubber' and usually contains a debit/credit card, driver's license, health insurance card and maybe a Starbucks card. If I am on vacation, I include a true credit card and AAA card. If I have a rental car, then my automobile insurance card. I rarely carry cash but when I do, I keep it in the same pocket. This has proven to be one of the best purchases I ever made. I always hated that wallet feeling.

    Wilco Store

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    This thread made me think of that old commercial for the ILGWU. That seems like a lifetime ago. It takes some serious effort to find a union label now. I teared up watching these.

     

    "Look for the union label

    When you are buying a coat, dress or blouse.

    Remember somewhere our union's sewing

    our wages going to feed the kids and run the house,

    We work hard but who's complaining.

    Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way.

    So, always look for the union label,

    it says we're able

    to make it in the U.S.A."

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lg4gGk53iY&NR=1

    Answer Me This

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Let me clarify. If it were me and my friends, it would be black and white. If my friends where upset that I didn't want to get intoxicated for any reason, let alone the one barb described, that would tell me all that I needed to know. As far as someone else and their friends, I can't say.

    Needing a little relationship advice

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

     

    Have you tried getting your chick to be the bartender at some family events?

    This will resolve the problem one way or another. Just make sure that she has a heavy hand. Everyone will either get closer to her our loathe her even more. If nothing else, entertainment will ensue.

     

    Hopefully, your relationship will become what it is meant to be, whatever that is. I hope that you have some non-cyber friends/acquaintances/professionals to discuss such a major life situation with. Best of luck to you in forming a relationship like the one my wife and I have. I consider myself blessed.

    Going to Clearwater show?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    We are heading out now. We just watched a video of Big star doing 'Thank You Friends' from last year. So excited. We were excited for 'An Evening With...' in Royal Oak but the vibe for this is higher. Then the ATL Friday.

    Cheers and enjoy, ya'll.

    This land is your land

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I remember in elementary school chorus we could only sing it sans the so-called Socialist verse:

     

    As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there

    And that sign said - no trespassin'

    But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!

    Now that side was made for you and me!

     

    That was a common practice back then as was the Americanism versus Communism class that was a high school graduation requirement.

    Critic's preview of the Clearwater, FL show

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Sean Daly of The St. Petersburg Times put out his Top 5 March shows list. Wilco made #4.

     

    •4WILCO (Ruth Eckerd Hall, March 23): Tickets for this are going to be a tough get. But if you're dying to get in, maybe, just maybe, you can bamboozle a 43-year-old music snob out of his seats. Try this. Tell him you're "Jay Farrar, an old friend of Jeff Tweedy's. If you give me your tickets, hipster, I'll introduce you to Jeff." If he catches you in the scam, run like hell 'cause those guys … actually, just take your time. Wilco fans eat a lot of cheese. (rutheckerdhall.com)

     

    The entire article/list is here: http://www.tampabay.com/features/sean-dalys-top-5-march-concerts/1076524

    the soccer thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Wild Frank, your Spurs kicked us out of the FA Cup with that 4-0 thrashing but I don't care because the 1-0 victory or Wolves today has us out of the relegation zone! Come on, boys!!

     

    What a game Chelsea v. Man. City was. No jet lag for Tevez though his first goal was soft. Hilario isn't Cech. With Belletti sent off and now suspended, Chelsea's already damaged defense is even worse. With Gunners 3 points back with a win today and their last 10 games being relatively easy, they just might hoist the trophy come May.

    John Wesley Harding

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    That's a lot of words about nothing.

    Some big words too.

     

    John Wesley Harding is a fine song.

    I can't imagine getting that worked up over a cover.

    Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts. I feel for your emotional numbness about covers, though. I had a fine night last night, regardless.

    John Wesley Harding

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Is there anything better than Wilco/Tweedy covering John Wesley Harding? We are sitting by the fire with the dogs and cat listening to shuffle and enjoying life. JWH comes up 3 times in an hour. Once Jeff solo, another Jeff solo, then Jeff solo but joined by everyone sans Nels. What fortune it is to be touched by the hand of the Shuffle God. The first time we are both, 'yeah!' and smile at one another and mildly chair dance. The next time we are both all, 'No way! Woohoo!'. The smiles grow in length and intensity and the arms and asses move a little more. The 3rd time I say, "Shit, it's the Vic one where they call Nels at the end. That's the best one!" The happy, happy, joy, joy reaches a new level. The cover is so joyful. It always changes my mood. It makes a positive valence high arousal emotion even more so and makes a negative valence low arousal emotion swing to the other ends of the continuum. How I love it. Thanks, Shuffle God. Any love for this amazing cover?

     

     

    Please Shuffle God don't let anyone post a link to an earlier thread about John Wesley Harding. Fuck, Now it's destined. I'm an idiot.

    Current Yes tour

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I am no Yes fan, well I was for a short while when I was a young'un. I saw "Yes - In The Round" at least 30 years ago. Anyway, I just noticed in the paper that they are playing tomorrow, Saturday 27 February, as part of the 'Bands, Brew & BBQ' series at SeaWorld (as in the People Got A Lotta Nerve thread). The prior acts in the series were as follows:

    SeaWorld

    Feb. 6 – LeAnn Rimes

    Feb. 13 – Montgomery Gentry

    Feb. 20 – John Rich of Big & Rich

    Feb. 27 – Yes

     

    Busch Gardens

    Feb. 7 – Dennis DeYoung: The Music of Styx

    Feb.y 14 – Willie Nelson

    Feb. 21 – Huey Lewis and the News

    Feb. 28 – Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo

     

    I thought that Willie Nelson was weird and considered going but I assumed that it was an abbreviated set and thought better of it. But Willie doesn't stick out in the Busch Gardens line-up as much as Yes stands out in the SeaWorld line-up. What on Earth? I know that they are getting a payday but what the fuck? I am guessing that the setlist will be serious radio hits only. If it is identical, hell similar, to the 8 Feb Northampton show posted above in the thread, I will buy every VCer a beer.

    Thoughts?

    question from a Wilco noob

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    Welcome,

    If you are considering StubHub and the like, I'd wait. There seem to be lots of tickets on those sites at insane prices. Wait and see if they drop. As far as tickets in How To Fight Loneliness, it's tough to say. They show or they don't. I have never bought there so, I don't have direct experience checking for tickets. I have sold several extras there over the years and have always posted them as soon as I had better seats. In retrospect, it doesn't sound like i have been much help. Best of luck.

    This Is Controversial?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    The only valid concern they have is one of the girls was under the legal drinking age...(gasp)

     

    Now if they did drive the zamboni, then we may have to get the mounties involved.

    Yeah and it's even stupider. The underage one is 18, legal in Alberta where they train but not in Vancouver, where the age is 19. She will be 19 in, wait for it... NEXT MONTH!

    This Is Controversial?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Yup, Speed, that's it. My favorite comment to the linked NPR is this one "anonie moose (anonemoos) wrote:

     

    Watch out- that Canadian just cracked open a Molson! They're probably going to... use the adequately funded public transportation system to arrive home safely? Yeah, who cares?"

    Stand...or sit?

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    I was up in front on the loge so I got to look down on it all (and stood for most of the show; no issues). That was the first of three shows in a row that I saw. The sound was the best of the three, it was an awesome setlist and Florida Theatre is a great venue, but I'm sorry to say Jax audiences in general suck. I saw Indigo Girls the other night and some arse 'ole actually complained about a guy who was setting up to tape at the front of the loge, because his microphones peeked out over the railing and "obscured their vision."

     

    I apologize on behalf of Jacksonville, even if I'm not originally from here.

    That was the first of 2 shows in a row that I saw and I agree about the sound and setlist (except for opening with Sunken Treasure - that's my favorite opener - and the Misunderstood into Cars Can't Escape - perfect! - 1st encore in Charleston). It IS a beautiful venue, a grand 20s movie palace like my own Tampa Theatre (will Wilco ever return to it?). The sit/stand deal didn't bother me.

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