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If you go with the one full carry-on, plan to end up with two bags on the way back. It just works that way. Your stuff isn't packed as neatly, and you buy stuff wherever you go. So if you take one of those little duffel bags that fold up and collapse real tiny with you, then you can put all your dirty clothes and stuff in that on the way back and check it. You can put your important stuff & whatever you bought in the carry on without it getting all overstuffed. And you can always just buy a little duffel in LA or wherever you're going too. But stuff swells.... I've been in China for

This is all pretty confusing. Presales for the presales? The Counting Crows / etc show at Slugger field on Aug 3 is general admission. They have two kinds of GA tickets, one for the field and one for the seats. This is not good. But the website for Production Simple (whoever they are) says reserved seating. Dunno. If it really is GA, then that would explain why it really doesn't matter who has the first presale. Outdoor GA is just not my thing any more.... Anybody know for sure?

We clearly need a "Changing a light bulb is the activity that ..." thread, too.

I am appalled by the disrespect you people have for light bulbs. Have you all thought about how the light bulbs must feel about all of this? It's a disgrace, and I shall have no part in it, I tell you.

Interesting opinions on Thief. For me, it didn't hold up well except a few tracks. I really liked it when it came out but I don't listen to it much any more. But Eraser was a real grower for me. Once I made myself listen to it a dozen times I started liking it a lot, and a lot more than Thief. Still do. Anxiously awaiting the new one, but expecting it to be a grower too.

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... has a name which almost translates into a trendy clothing store in a mall in China.

I'm having trouble getting an image into a post on just a fan. paste does not work for me as I'm entering the post, but the image is in the clipboard when I do a paste to other applications. paste works for text, but not an image. I tried the insert image button as well; I have the image on picasa, but get a "Sorry, dynamic pages in the tags are not allowed" message when I use that URL and try to preview the post. any suggestions? thanks...

+1 Do these guys ever play the same place twice? I saw the Palace show a couple years ago and then the Iroquois show last year. Now the ballpark... must be Venue ADHD. So I guess that if they're "upgrading" to bigger places, I suppose my faint hope of a Lexington show at the Singletary center can be officially snuffed out at this point. Alas. Just have to keep making the Louisville / Cinci / Nashville road trips.

The lameness of your pictures is only exceeded by the lameness of your posts.

I'd put them under the "two good albums" heading. A Rush of Blood was pretty good, imo, and had some level of progression from / difference from Parachutes (also good). Unfortunately the recycle-your-hits machine kicked in hard after that, and they are mired in the bloated land of meh.

And there's some really cool artwork for a jewel case & tray for both these shows on wilcobase.

+1 for VC. Reservations led by Jeff's acoustic guitar has a permanent place in my brain as well.

They are on that Live Planet thingie now on the telly. My goodness they have gotten old since my college days. Sure am glad I haven't aged that much ... I gotta admit Sting does still sound amazing. However I am suspicious that's not really his natural hair color at this point. Stewart seems to be OK with the "Yes, I'm a gray haired rock drummer", which is kinda refreshing. But Sting and Andy are definitely hitting the Grecian Formula pretty regularly. And for the record, Message in a Bottle does not need rap to be a great song, imho. What are they thinking???

Well this has been an interesting little "circle of life" kind of thread, now hasn't it?

your avatar reminds me of Dick Cheney

I am not in love with the tone of this thread.

Made you look.

I once went to this great little town in the North called Stresa, about an hour from Milano. It's right there on lake something-or-other (there are a gazillion lakes in that part of the country in the Italian Alps) and it's a delightful place. It was a beautiful train ride down from Geneva.

I hereby speculate that on July 22nd at 5 PM CDT Wilcoworld will post 19 additional US dates throughout the South / Southeast between the Sept 16 ACL Festival show and that Voodoo Festival in late October.

... sold more Volkswagons than the Beatles.

Would somebody please enter 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, & 42 into the green screen so this thing will work right?

On&on&on is certainly the one I'd call "heavy" - it's the one that tends to weigh on me the most when I hear it. Not sure if that's what you meant, but that's the one I thought of when I saw the title here. I think Walken is a great little shiny happy love song. I don't hear anything heavy in that one. Of the ones you listed in the poll, I'd have to go with YAMF. Good poll, though. thanks for askin...

did you guys see that picture of him on the new modern drummer cover?? Where DID he get that blue sweater thingie? Not exactly standard rock star attire, now is it? He is such a trip...

Somebody once told me "I don't care what color it turns so long as it don't turn loose."