sweetheart-mine

this will be my first show, and i can hardly stand the wait! i became hooked on jeff tweedy and wilco's music last summer -- on nearly everything about it -- and am still into the exciting discovery of it all. after being into the rock of the '60s and '70s for a long time, and then listening mostly to opera (yup) for the past decade, these guys shook my world and woke me up in too many ways to count. it doesn't look to me from setlists like they've done Less Than You Think live for a long time, but i'm hoping after the residency shows . . . maybe they will play this one of their songs i

it sounds like they're not meant to be actual encores. maybe it just works best this way for the band, to have two "intermissions" for a quick pee and a sip of diet coke, you know? i mean, i've read the setlists, which i think are really generous, i've learned a lot about all kinds of other generous stuff they do, they give their fans a lot of leeway in exchanging music, they provide this terrific forum, they treat their fans well when they meet them and just about every other way i can think of. i could go on and on. oh, and on. (which IS a great song.) maybe it's because i'm a ne

okayyyyy ... i'm really not picky, but might end up elsewhere after some of those reviews! thanks.

is there anything wrong with New Haven Hotel? it's only a couple of blocks walking to the theater and is less expensive than omni. it looks nice on the website. does anyone know it?

oh i'm still going ellen, my ticket is out where i see it every day, and i cannot believe it's real! i'd love to join a vc pre-show gathering and am glad you brought it up. i know nothing -- just give me a direction and tell me where to go and i'll be there. i'm going to stay with a friend i haven't seen in a long time on the way the day before and then go from there. (many many thanks for all previous invitations.) can you believe this?: a month ago i apparently blew my ears out listening to wilco with my bose headphones; i kept cranking it up over the months and now have tinnitus

cars can't escape

i missed the appeal of the videos totally, never could get it. the phony lip-synching, the bad acting, the stiltedness of it all -- it just seemed pathetic to me. also, didn't anyone besides me not want the intrusion in your brain of some marketing exec's visual interpretation of the music? once you see a video, the magic is gone. you can't use your imagination. someone else's trendy idea comes screaming into your mind with guns blazing every time you hear a song. "can't stand it"!

oh my god, i have to ask this. was it ever called joe's pizza? was it a walk-up-to-the-window-like-you're-ordering-ice-cream kind of place? was it near a small baseball field? i suppose it's all a walmart or some other prison by now. but that square pizza was one of a kind.

whoa, almost forgot "i should've known better," another early favorite.

1. "i'll be back again"!!! i played it so many times my dad almost left home. 2. "you can't do that" and you've gotta put "imagine" on there, even though it's lennon alone. well in that case, how about george's "beware of darkness" too -- magnificent song.

and my husband was born and grew up in holland, michigan. it's a nice place in many ways, but he couldn't wait to get out of there. the lawns were too neat, the population was not diverse (has improved, i think), and his family was fundamentalist baptist whereas he didn't like groupthink. not that this has anything to do with wilco, but there, i just mentioned them.

yep, and seats are also good for people with bad foot tendons and claustrophobia. i had those by age 19. but i still love a great time, and great music, and i probably would have hung upside-down from the rafters to see my first wilco performance.

very nice, lamrod -- i listened just now and enjoyed it, thanks for posting! you have a good and friendly voice.

here's the link to numerous shots of the inside of the shubert: http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/24284.html

i've got first row of mezz too and at first, from the charts, thought the stage view might be obstructed. but there's more info than i thought on the chart: only the 2 far-over left (A28) and far-over right(A27) seats at mezz level appear to be somewhat obstructed by a few box seats along the walls. the theater looks gorgeous! built in 1914. i saw numerous photos of its inside on a google find today about someone's architectural tours of historic theaters, which included the shubert. it looks like there are very few bad seats. it's a pretty small-size and intimate-looking venue.

i've had two best moments: 1. discovering jeff tweedy & wilco for the very first time, by accident, when i turned on the ovation tv channel one day this summer and the "man in the sand" documentary was on. the first thing i saw and heard was jeff beginning "when the roses bloom again." i stopped walking toward the couch and froze, listened to the whole song, and then screamed to my husband "I LOVE THEM! WHO ARE THEY!" 2. getting my ticket this morning to what will be my first wilco show, in february in new haven. i can't calm down. it's past 3 p.m., think i'll have a glass o

bobfrombob, tthhaannkk yyoouu! i was ready to give up . . . but because of you i've got a ticket to my first wilco show! i'm in happy shock. people who know the shubert: i'm row A seat 13 in mezzanine. in looking at the theater chart, i can't tell if my view is obstructed or not. don't think so, but not sure. does anyone know?

looks like you win the prize, cal. i'll let you know when i decide what it is.

_o__y pee_les (same letter missing in all three spaces)

i lived in kingston from age 5 to 8. we had our very own teenage sicko living right across the street. he shot my older brother in the head with bb's every chance he got; made my younger brother lick the bottom of his shoes; trapped me in a room in their house and put a bumble bee under the door to freak me out (he succeeded). these are just minor examples; i'm sure he went on to have a full-fledged adult sicko career. i'd never take my wipers to kingston, and you shouldn't have either.

that's right -- no way will it feel like walking into a theater full of strangers or, say, serial killers! i'm still going to pm you, after i actually get a ticket and figure out what's what logistically.

thanks, yes, i too would rather go alone to the concert, and also in this way: no one i'm close to gets jeff or wilco at all, whereas i'm an addict. after thinking about it more, i'm not going to drag one of them there and then worry about whether she's having a good enough time. (there's a show-wrecker for ya!)

you first posted this shortly after i came to this board -- i loved it then and i love it now, thank you for reposting! your story is 100% engaging, witty, inspirational in many ways. one is that i'm with ya re: claustrophobia, i have the same. it's so great that you included it in your write-up and makes me believe that if you can do it, so can i. from what you wrote and everyone else is saying, a wilco show is more than worth dealing with a fear or two to get there, and i'm finding that pretty easy to believe. by the way, you have a lucky son.

thanks -- yah, i was trying for 1 ticket, so when it told me to enter a lower number, that didn't seem like a good idea! there WAS a 0 (zero) option, which is pretty funny. it was reassuring to come here and find i wasn't the only one freaking out. anyway, i'll try first thing saturday also. i hope you get good seats, too.

orchestra center row A? wow. i was in the new haven ticket-buying process at 10:01, kept trying for at least half an hour, getting the same message most of the time (no more reserved seats available) and then "sold out" toward the end. it was a lot of fun, i wish i could start every day that way.