NationalDust

I think I've gotten to the point where I can't read interviews with Jeff anymore.

why?

QuickAsshat

:yay

> You need to build a huge transmitter in your back garden.

 

the guys in the house behind mine have this huge-arse satelite dish on their roof that looks like it can make radio contact wiith Jupiter

You can actually download the transmitter and it installs itself on your back lawn... no kidding!

No really, it prompts you to download some software for AKiva, but it's a very small file and it just takes a second to install.

Stuff about the chat:

-It's IRC based so most IRC cmmands are applicable.

-You can choose your text color

-you can register your name with a password

-There's a huge list of animated smileys

-From this room, a list of other rooms on the server is accessible

-I can record transcripts for this room and email them out if you missed something or something funny happened. In other rooms I've built in the past, I had a web page of funny quotes taken from the transcripts. One of the regular chatters there told me she printed the page out and put it on her bedroom wall because it made her laugh.

1. I'm not sure I understand the definition of selling out... they seem to still write what they want to write and do what they want to do... just because they let some songs go onto a commercial means selling out why? because it's exposure? because it's worth money? I don't think it cheapens the emotion that was put into these songs when they were written... in the words of our very own Mr Tweedy

"And if the whole world

Porn magazines....how quaint.

If I'm not mistaken, Hugh Hefner was the first to publish Ray Bradbury... It's not porn, really, and if anything it's really soft core. No pictures of women masturbating or people having anal sex, just nude women. In some areas, that's be considered art...

Are there sex stories in it? I've never read one... maybe that could be considered porn, but only as much as a sleazy romance novel and peopl read those in the waiting room at the doctor's office

I'm bumping this because I'm kinda lonely and would like to chat

I've told all of my non-wilco-listening friends to keep an eye out for the commercial.

I don't mean to be a boob and post this among all the other Sky Blue Sky reviews, but I thought some of you might like to keep abreast of Wilco news, so here is Jeff's stuff in Playboy. The interviewer erected a pretty good set of questions, and overall I found it to be very stimulating, although i must admit i would have preferred it orally rather than in print, since you really don't get Jeff's tone from this. Anyway...

:yay

freaking sweet

I like the song a lot... so if I happen to be at Starbucks and they play it, cool... if I happen to be watching TV and I hear it.. cool...

Man there must be alot of hippie wannabes here if anyone in this millenium thinks that most bands really give a shit where they are sold. I am gonna guess there are few bands that wouldn't consider product placement in a Starbucks, just as there are few bands who wouldn't want to have a song in a commercial. The few who still care are either hippies themselves or have already made so much money they don't really care about it anymore.

 

In the famous words of Abbie Hoffman, it isn't whether you sell out, it is how soon and for how much. Music is a commodity just like coffee....

 

LouieB

Kidsbop 11 commercial came on while I was reading this... how long before we hear Wilco on Kidsbop? har har

I like Starbucks' coffee, but only idiots let coffee shops tell them what to listen to. And I REFUSE to speak fake Italian at them. Small, medium and large is perfectly sufficient.

Haha! I love it.

"Your boys sold out."

puh-lease

I'm getting more than tired of hearing that term

I thought everyone knew that hot topic is a joke

 

I've never walked by one and not had someone made a sarcastic comment

Eh... they sell clothes and stuff, I mean, I don't think a store is really capable of being a joke... the kids that dress up and hang out outside are jokes maybe.

I'm sure being in Starbucks has some kind of positive impact on sales.

 

I just wonder what kind of person decides to add a $13.99 CD to their $4.00 coffee order?

 

Perhaps I'm old school, but I normally don't plan on adding to my musical library when I go into a food/beverage locale.

A lot of people do things to project a certain image. Like... if you hang out at Starbucks, you'd probably listen to Wilco or whatever they have on the shelf because Starbucks is "your thing"

Like kids who hang out at Hot Topic and wear body jewelery and Him t-shirts...

I'm not saying everyone's like this, but a lot pf people my age are sort of malleable and are pressed into molds formed by places like Starbucks and Hot Topic.

(Also, I do like coffee, and I have been known to browse through Hot Topic, so don't get defensive, I'm really not trying to put anyone down)

people who wouldn't otherwise know what music is OK to listen to.

This made me giggle

Remember in IATTBYH, when (I think it was) Stirratt said someting about falling in love with all the little things that are fucked up with a song?

Personally, I like the song, and I don't think I'd like it any more or less if it were pitch perfect. It's all for entertainment, so if the fans like it, it's serving its purpose and is correct.

I hope **** dumb ******* jackass really **** **** for that.

COOL!

I thought it was, "some are here and some are there."

 

I've always thought of it as a dream. I'm not down with suicide.

I could be mistaken.. it happens... quite frequently as a matter fact

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Speaking of kids and Sky Blue Sky, I was driving my kids home from daycare yesterday. I've been playing Sky Blue Sky constantly in the car since the 15th and when What Light came on, my two and a half year old daughter started singing along with the chorus. A fun moment.

I would cry

You can get the two disc version used on Amazon.com for like $10

Is it worth $30? yes... but obviously not if you have the option of buying for a lot cheaper.

Can you link Black Flag to Pam from The Office in less than 10 steps?

*boggle*

It's amazing how 2 early 80's SoCal punk bands on SST could be so closely related! Whoa!

Sardony rules!

Say, have you read the Kot book?

How did you guess?