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6. you wake up in the morning and for a minute believe you ARE jeff tweedy.

wow, poppydawn, you have the courage of jeff tweedy -- to say exactly what you mean. thanks very much for this. your words literally had me feeling that fall, that slipping into a black hole, which i too know too well. you eloquently put into words a state that most of the time can seem impossible to define. what you wrote does worry me some. i'm not consciously depressed, but if i'm not, why have i for many months been pulled into those songs so deeply that they practically seem to make up my life? on the other hand, i think your listening to AGIB that day because it expresses you

"war on war" is one of his best and i love it in a million different ways. the only reason i didn't put it in the panic/depression-related list is that he sings it with such spirit, i feel completely uplifted by it and take it as a positive message, or at least mixed messages with positive results. your mentioning the last verse of "hate it here" reminded me of "let me come home," which had me crying the first twenty or so times i listened to it. talk about naked despair and grief and confusion -- there it is. hey, it even has the word "panic" right there in it, just realized that now.

yah, it did make sense, good job. especially sentences 2 into 3. i wonder which songs especially pull at some of you who share these conditions with jeff tweedy, which songs bring up the emotions listed by sgtpepper64. so many appeal to me on other levels, like "war on war," "the thanks i get," "the ruling class," and, well too many to name. but some have pulled me deep inside the "confused, relieved, scared, grateful and just very lucid" state of being, and those are: less than you think hell is chrome via chicago pieholden suite elt reservations how to fight loneliness summerteeth

same here. i haven't counted, but is there an unusually high number of wilco fans who have dealt with panic, depression, or both? i mean, more (percentage-wise) than in the general population? i get that feeling, and even though it went unspoken for so long, whenever i read/hear jeff talking about this i wonder if it is a silent part of why some of us are so drawn to him and his turn of mind. some of his songs really take me to straight to melancholy, but they're so gorgeous, and familiar in a way, that i can't not listen to them.

yes. if he doesn't pay, then i'm out some money but he's out some karma. i think i'd rather be out some money. i will keep trusting people -- just not that one!

thanks for asking, edie. i'll answer for him: no, he hasn't. wednesday 4 a.m. was the third time in three weeks that he emailed to say it's on its way. jesus christ, i don't think it's coming, do you?

oops and thanks! yah, actually i absolutely hate making an issue of money of all things. not that i don't need it, i do, but by far the harder part is how this kind of thing changes your trust in people. the world works on trust, in the end, when it works at all, and for me to add to the lack of trust in the world is painful. don't want to join that club. anyway, thank you again.

oh i know! i've turned out to be so "uncool"! bye now.

i don't know, gabe. what are the chances that i'll ever receive the money for the new haven ticket you "bought" from me? as you know, i didn't ask for the $16+ expense of overnighting the ticket to you on feb 21, but at this point, after several ignored emails, i think i'd like that in addition to the cost of the ticket. or maybe you'd like to just donate $10 toward my medical bills and consider the ticket a gift, even though i don't know you and was brokenhearted to miss my first wilco show. folks, it's a hell of a drag to get kicked in the teeth for trusting people!

"there's so much less to this than pants think"

thanks. i'm not going anywhere -- except to the p.o. with your ticket. stay warm and enjoy the show.

Folks, this was to be my first Wilco concert -- and I have pneumonia! and cannot go. The seat is front row mezzanine, which if you've seen the pics of inside the theater is a great place to be. please email me at nantiques 9 @ gwi.net (without spaces of course).

uh oh. stage fright.

i don't mean to intrude on your thread, but ditto for Less Than You Think -- in case i haven't mentioned it enough already!

my husband is 6'3" and knows exactly how you feel. except for the twins part! if i'd known this was going to happen, i'd have had kids myself.

ouch! and shame on all those short people! i didn't know what it was either, at first. i went to bed and heard loud peepers. puzzled, i got up and opened the window. yup, peepers . . . only how can it be? it's winter, in maine! decided it must be some electrical wire out there gone crazy. by morning, i knew it was me -- and only i was hearing them. i hope you've got plugs for loud noise so you continue to hear the ringing only at night.

many thanks, everyone, and also my condolences. it's a nasty thing, one of those things you think will never happen to you. in one instant it can change, and you can lose both your silence and your hearing. you didn't have it, now you have it. poof, just like that. a friend of mine warned me about listening through my bose headphones at too high a volume, but i just brushed her off. i was hearing all kinds of nuances in the music that i hadn't heard before, and was enthralled. besides, i'd been listening to opera for years, how could jeff tweedy hurt me??? but i didn't have the

a little advice needed here. this rotten condition first hit me about a month ago -- and i caught it from wilco. i was walking with my around the ear headphones, listening to a cd i'd just burned of songs from a variety of shows. so the volume was a little different for each song. suddenly one song started at waaaay higher volume than the rest, so high that it hurt, and i ripped the headphones off in pain. i didn't want to miss the song, though, so i slapped them back on my ears and got through it. how stupid is that? don't tell me, i already know. ever since then, i've had thi

but you sound like a good goob. you've probably waited for tickets numerous times. if mine hadn't come immediately from the shubert for my first wilco concert, which it did, i'd have been screaming my head off in fear and anxiety all this time!

tweedy 0 (but approximately 40 sunken treasure dvd viewings) wilco 0 feb 24 will become 1 (yay!!!) 2008-infinity: as many as i can get to from maine.

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that must be frustrating. i figured i'd have about zero chance of hearing Less Than You Think if i try to scream it over 1600 people. so . . . maybe jeff will get this message somehow somewhere. i'm stuck (voluntarily) in a corner of the country, maine, and who knows how many more chances i'll get. the version i listen to most is jeff acoustic, from an owl download, and it sounds like a small venue, maybe even a living room show. but if they'll play it at the shubert i'll take any version they offer and be extremely happy!

thank you very much, people. one reason i read this board is the wit of certain posters. yah, you're right: Wishful Thinking! sometimes it pays to wish out loud: years ago i lost my piano (long story), and in an ocean-chart store i said something wistful (or wishful) to my husband about missing it -- we had no money -- and the water-logged guy behind the counter offered me the piano his grandma had left him and drove it over to my house the next day. it can pay to wish out loud! residency dvd's and cd's have to be fantastic. go ***Less Than You Think**************