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Wilco on my 50th birthday in Rochester NY, including "When You Wake Up Feeling Old". I also discovered I share a birthday with Stan. Cool stuff. Andrew Bird here in Lexington. Snuck into sound check and really enjoyed seeing that side of things. Springsteen's tour opener in Atlanta. Wow. Jeff Tweedy solo at the Vic. Which immediately followed Kentucky beating Louisville in the final four that me, my wife, SonicShoulder and his buddy all watched in a bar down the street from the Vic and then dashed to the show just in time. A truly fabulous evening. Radiohead in Cinci. Those guys

I'm having a little trouble visualizing (audiolizing?) the Stipe selection on Wed.

Dave Matthews Band. First time to take all 3 kids. Not exactly youngsters, 17,18,20... the 18YO's first concert. He's not as much into music as the other two (or me), and he's really excited about this one. Should be fun. My first "jam band" show, not counting Wilco of course.

Not a great interview (Dave seems to take forever to ask a question that shouldn't take quite that long), but JPJ is one funny smartass dude.

Somebody needs to tell Ira that sentence length does not equal journalistic quality. That was painful.

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Radiohead - Electioneering. Real, real loud.

There's one in every crowd.... when Lammy shows up, there's two.

Just a simple "yes" or "no"... did you exercise your right to vote in today's presidential election?

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

While we're on the subject, any thoughts on why my iPhone app says that this ivision app is now discontinued and I need a new one? The new one isn't free. Well, it's only 99 cents but hey I'm cheap.

We saw the movie last night, and I thought it was a great performance. We also had to "encourage" the theater people to crank it up, and they did. The musicianship was really, really good... better than I expected and just sharp as a tack all around. I thought JPJ looked a little winded / strained at times, but wow did he deliver. I usually can't sit through a whole concert film but this was really special start to finish. I agree with the sentiment that it was a special one-night stand, and probably couldn't hold up all that magic on a tour. But Jimmy Page sure looked like he has a fe

Cool stuff. That is one bigass planeship.

there, there... don't blame yourself. when our kids were being borned (early 90's), the big thing in all the books was to play Beethoven for them while they were in the womb. we played Pink Floyd. ... now for the most part, they all have pretty good taste in music. Louie's right, it's all good.

I listened to Monster today, and Circus Envy is just one helluva great rock n roll song.

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David Byrne & St. Vincent

In related news, my daughter and I snuck into the venue yesterday afternoon where Andrew Bird was playing last night (which of course we attended). It's the campus venue for UK, and my daughter attends UK and has performed in that center a few times, so she kinda knew her way around. I just wanted to get in for sound check, which is something I've always wanted to do but not had the chance. As we were going in the back door of the venue, a guy comes wheeling up past us on his bicycle to the back door, hops off and heads in. Andrew Bird. He nodded at us and started talking to one of the st

Andrew Bird tonight... also in my very own city! I hardly ever get to see anybody here anymore. Concerts without road trips... what a concept.

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Dave Matthews Band. Still OK in small doses, and on some of the deeper cuts, but not the steady diet it once was.

Euchre is a big deal in Indiana as well. Fun game, quick and not too complicated. Our current favorite card game is 31 which is also a quick / fun / easy game. (null)

Looks like they've moved past Popeye. Another icon kicked to the curb....

Lost. Great premise to start out (Gilligan's Island meets The Twilight Zone), and great first couple seasons. Loved it. But it just got too weird for its own good. Annoyingly disjointed and impossible to watch, let alone follow. The ending was so-so. Maybe it was planned that way from the start, but I think it was just a semi-graceful way to get out of the hole they dug themselves into.

I thought the ending of St. Elsewhere was brilliant. Well, after I read what it was about the next day I thought it was brilliant. In real time I didn't quite comprehend it.