theashtraysays

Sorry, this belongs in the "what are the little things that make you feel creepy" thread.

A couple dates popping up on Google for early 2011. Jan 26 - Austin Jan 30 - Lexington, KY (!) Hopefully more to come... I haven't seen them, but looking forward to it.

On the plus side, I played golf with my 67YO mom before the Indy show a couple years ago on my mini-palooza birthday trek to Radiohead and Wilco. On the minus side, I got a speeding ticket on my way back from the Iroquois show in Louisville when I was ALMOST all the way home.

I am growing weary of all of the phone-call pollsters this month. I forgot how irritating it is to track down the phone only to find it's some random somebody wanting to know who I'd vote for. When the do-not-call lists kicked in a couple years ago, that was a beautiful thing. Now it only comes back once or twice a year, but it's more annoying since you think those things were gone for good. You have to re-train yourself to let the machine get it.

At our house we refer to it all as "Nickelstaind" when any of that indistinguishable generic drivel comes on the radio.

The Betty Whites

True story / weird coincidence: I made a playlist on my ipod that I keep in my car this morning which consists of all the versions of Kamera / Camera I have (7 in total including live versions) just because I love all the variations of that song. It also picked up the R.E.M. version from Reckoning!

no, really, how do you really feel about it? Don't keep sugarcoating it.

Well, one that comes to mind quickly is A Shot in the Arm by that alt-country band from Chicago. Something about talking ashtrays..

Hope you had a happily ignored birthday!

Yeah, the whole outro for Reservations is just gorgeous.

The avalanche in Via Chicago live. Glenn's drum explosion in ALTWYS. The little quiet transition / meandering part in Muzzle of Bees after the last "half is me" line, but before the guitars kick back in. The residency version with Andrew Bird is particularly beautiful. Pat's guitar line in the end of Bull Black Nova.

I do that a lot too. I've rationalized that it's OK to copy those since it's really my tax dollars that bought it in the first place. No replies are needed from you bubble bursters out there.

I am patiently awaiting A-man's post on this topic.

When someone in my family loads the dishwasher with a bowl or a glass or something upside down on the top rack and it collects all the dirty water and then spills out all over the other clean dishes on the bottom rack when you pull out the top rack. Actually, I have numerous dishwasher loading (or failure to load) peeves, truth be told. I should probably have that looked at.

I finally got around to downloading this from i-tunes this weekend. I've been through it a couple times, and I like it a lot. It's different enough to be interesting, but still holds the greatness of DSOM. Least favorite is Great Gig in the Sky; I needed that one to be a little more reverent. But the rest is a good mix of mashing in lots of stuff in some places, and stripping out lots of stuff in others. I understand why non-Lips fans wouldn't like it. I don't see it winning any new fans.

At the risk of stereotyping, the Japanese tend to be very efficient.

Canceled meetings. Double bonus points for Friday afternoon meetings.

Perfect.

Not to prolong the fight, but I will see your peeve and raise you two annoyances! We're cool. I get your point.

Not pick a fight, but one of my biggies is having people without kids give me advice on how to raise mine. I hear your point, and you might have a dozen kids for all I know. But in general, advice-giving rights are earned through experience. All others just annoy the crap out of me. That line in Signs "he can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine" is one of my mantra's.

Indeed. If things don't change, 2010 might be the first year in a long time that I don't get the see them. This is not good. Loved the webcast, but there needs to be a show within driving distance soon! I'm not quite to get-on-a-plane status (been on too many this year already for work stuff), but it's getting close. There's a lot of touring dates already set, so I'm getting worried that there might not be anything local coming up. You and Poca doing OK up there? All is well in Lexington. Kids and work. Just the usual. See ya, Vince

Well, that was fun. Perhaps we should do it again soon, eh?

I think one more!!!

we're not at 1000 posts yet... need more songs!