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good thing they did that VW thingl, otherwise they'd be at 94 right now.

I think it is the Barney Kessel, (The big red Gibson,) but if you find Guitar World Acoustic, from a month or two ago, he talks about what guitars he used for the album.

Compared to the last two albums, SBS seems more like a collection of songs than an album. And for some reason, "Walkin" has really started to annoy me, and the "sigh for the seed" has started to remind me of Joe Cocker.

And who chooses the music they listen to by watching television commercials? Is this a significant demographic?

By waking up?

I'm seriously scratching my brain so . . . hmm. . . They haven't done a hip-hop booty video yet?

I love the thing where people say, if you don't like the commercials, you don't have to see them, like we should dive under the couch when the commercials come on. Any information which in any way is displeasing should be ignored. Sleep peacefully America, and don't let the facts disquiet your nightmares.

Wow, debuted four spots higher than A Ghost is Born and #67 after a month? Couldn't have done that without Volkswagen.

I just realized, that where is says out of tune, that is not your screen name. I've never done chats before, and probably won't after this. The commercial thing hit me in an emotional way. This is probably not all that interesting, but I bought YHF the day our carrier left for deployment, sort of listened to it, but didn't really get into it until I was driving away from the Navy. It captured that feeling of freedom and lostness, and since then I've been through some seriously rocky shit and almost ended up homeless or dead a couple of times and Wilco was the background music for that peri

If you turn to CBS real quick, you can see John Mellecamp doing a stirring rendition of "This is our Country" again!

I'm sorry, I was trying to be funny. That's usually a mistake on my part. If I remember right, you started the original sell-out thread didn't you? How has your thoughts on the subject evolved? I'm starting to sort of understand where he was coming from. Everything was going good, the music was working, the fans are all saying how much they love you on Facebook. Then the VW guys come around with a slick presentation about synergy and merging market and what-not, and you know VW can afford way better marketing guys than Wilco can. Tweedy starts thinking, we're geniuses, we're cutting ed

When I saw the towing guy commercial, I was sort of like, well I guess Wilco's gotta do what they gotta do. When I saw the the Sun will shine on my shiny new convertible I was too outraged to pay attention. And when I saw the Sky Blue Sky commercial, it was if somebody tore my heart out and a black haze descended upon me . . . The Key was the only one I could pay attention to and I find it just weirdly disquieting and awkard. You know I seriously believe the commercial's creators had some sort directive that said something like "our target audience responds well to simulated violence and ne

Dammit, my connection went out for awhile . . . On CBS, John Mellencamp just did a stirring 4th of July rendition of "This is our County." I wanted to give a heads up. Talk about a 4 star sell-out. Sorry about not mentioning the Axe thing guy. I know that I'm going to make an ass out of myself saying this, but the only time I ever use it is when I think there's a reasonable chance I might meet a woman. Not to say I believe it will work, but for $3 a can it's worth a shot . .

I just do not see how the key commercial is humorous. Unless it's a sort of joke saying people who drive volkswagens are so stupid they will attack the parking valet. Or they are such low-life trash they don't understand the concept. I'm not sure that's what VWs getting at. And the most tragic thing on a personal level, is that up until this January I had a t-shirt that said FUKINGRUVEN instead of FARFIGNUGEN on it with something that looked like the VW emblem. That would be cool shit to wear to a Wilco concert now.

I know it sounded pretty ridiculous when I said Tweedy was responsible for all the evil in the world, but I'm very comfortable with the statement that "marketers" are very much responsible for the War in Iraq. You can blame it all on Bush if you want, but he needed someone to manipulate the message, to market his position. They didn't use dumb commercials to market their product, but that doesn't mean they didn't market it. When the Nazis and Soviets did it, they called it propaganda, but I guess we like to call it staying on message. As far as whether the marketing thing is a "war" or not