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I'm in love with my car - queen racing in the streets - springsteen cars - gary numan

Have a great one!!

Begin the Begin - REM / Life's Rich Pageant Intruder - Peter Gabriel / (3; melting) Convinced of the Hex - Flaming Lips / Embryonic +1 for Thunder Road

I enjoyed the Target commercials. Other than that, it was an unsatisfying 2.5 hours.

I feel a giant "whatever" coming on in the next 149 minutes.

Good point. I don't think "better", but definitely "different". Wilco (the song) as the opener kinda says "OK, this one's going to be a rock and roll record". Deeper Down says "just kidding, folks".

+1 I don't consider the outtro to Reservations as noise.

The tall one with the funny name.

and to you as well, lotti

Nepotism: It isn't just for politicians anymore.

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.