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for a diatribe, that's a great one! nice combo of truth and humor. what fresh air -- i can breathe.

these are great! thanks so much to froggie....

can these be posted here somehow. i'm especially interested in tweedy's acoustic versions, and especially in AGIB. ?

loldoctor, thank you for this. it's riveting to read the thoughts on tweedy's lyrics of someone who is also a songwriter. you say a lot, and i learned a lot. re: his wanting people to listen to his lyrics, to be aware they're listening to a song, this must be true. i can't do a single other thing while listening to him, discovered that right away. while listening (which is every day), i put these big headphones around my ears and sit like a statue for an hour at a time. i don't even want to hear normal outdoor sounds through closed windows -- i HAVE to pay attention. i once had th

yah, but he wears them on the sunken treasure dvd, behind the scenes doing crossword puzzles. i love this story! big admirer of colbert here also. and now they're linked.

hi High, is the track splitting still to come? your busy schedule of having the day off must have been a whopper, that's good! no pressure, i just want to be sure i didn't somehow miss it.

well that was torture. but yesterday it would have been "summerteeth" and tomorrow who knows?

all so true. and it does seem impossible to pick a favorite; for one thing, my favorite keeps changing. "war on war" has remained up there in my top 5 all along, probably for reasons different from your or jeff's interpretations! tomorrow something else will float up into the top 5 -- maybe a song i've listened to ten times and suddenly, on the eleventh listen, i actually hear what it means. i still have a lot of listening to do (how lucky!), but right now the lyrics of "in a future age," "hell is chrome," "less than you think," and "theologians" strike me as especially brilliant and a

the din and cocktail-party-type patter going on in the background of whichever one i have amazes me. can you imagine paying no attention when you've got jeff tweedy and wilco doing "be not so fearful" right there in the room with you. wow.

badger, it isn't easy to explain, is it? i've had that problem myself when asked on the spot. maybe it'll go a little better now . . . thanks for making my day.

thank you kindly, badger. i'm glad willstafa24 brought up such a thought-provoking question.

jeff tweedy's lyrics make me hungry to listen to his every song every day, each time a fresh and fascinating experience. they make me think. many of them can have many different meanings, depending on who you are, or what time of life you're at, or how much ambivalence and ambiguity you believe you can handle on a given day. for me, the ambivalence and ambiguity he expresses, whether subtle or overt, get at the very core of life as a human being. they're deeply, painfully honest, and they leave most beliefs and assumptions open to question. this makes a lot of people uncomfortable, a

i love ELT too. in the few months since i crawled out from under my rock and learned of jeff tweedy and wilco, i haven't found a version of ELT that comes even close to this one, it's out of this world. actually think that's true of several songs on this dvd -- no other versions i've heard yet even come close. ELT, summerteeth, war on war, in a future age . . . and . . . sunken treasure, wow. he was fantastic on this tour. we need a jeff tweedy Live in the Atlantic Northeast, please!

ooo, that can be done? (split into two tracks.) i for one would be VERY grateful, and others would be too. it's such a gorgeous song. i've been listening more to your version, and after the cell phone bit it really is way better than the only other one sung by jeff that i've found. thank you for persevering with this!

hey, thanks very much! yes, quite a ways into the song jeff has to stop and start over because of someone's cell phone going off. otherwise the sound is good, better than the other live version.

yah, the guy is trying to learn how to fish. some of us are trying to teach him. once he knows how to fish, he can fish fish fish and have music music music all the day and night. it really isn't hard to at least show the guy where the fishing pole is.

firefox is the magic browser for me. if anyone with a mac using firefox still has trouble after using the instructions at the link i posted above, feel free to mail me and i'll try to help.

and if i wasn't a technology idiot, i'd up the file for him too. don't know how to do it. a link to instructions that are readable and clear seem the next best thing.

these are very clear instructions here: http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/07/15/how-t...mp3-using-os-x/ i have a mac, downloaded xACT for free, and followed these instructions to the letter. it works, and believe me, i'm a technology idiot. if i can do it, anyone can! good luck.

glad you did get it, worshipper! i've listened to my cd of it every single day since i got it (two months ago?) and watched the thing at least twice a week. still do. jeff's voice in most of it is in top form and knox my sox off. have a great time ...

that would be great. thanks!

it's in this list: http://www.owlandbear.com/2007/03/06/hoste...rs-compilation/

well, being quite a newbie, i don't have much physical paraphernalia beyond every cd and dvd i've managed to buy or make yet. (each one i make is burned 3 times because i need it in my living room, in my art studio, and in my car.) jeff tweedy's voice and songs in my head almost 100% of waking hours can count as major paraphernalia for me at this point. help, why is this???

great and beautiful story, i love it, thank you! you put us all there. one of these days i will venture out to my first tweedy or wilco show (yep, claustrophobia here too), and you've given me courage to do it even if i have to go by myself. (don't know anyone around me who knows of wilco, can you believe it?) you're a wonderful writer, by the way; this was a real treat, all of it.

hi there, i'm very recent to the board too and am still learning a lot more than posting. do you have the 2006 dvd of jeff's solo tour "sunken treasure: live in the pacific northwest"? (and cd, because after buying you can download the entire song audio via computer as part of the package.) it is fantastic and what really got me acquainted with many wilco songs. the problem is, i think jeff's voice is so strong and wonderful on it that the original wilco versions kind of pale for me. nels and glenn shine toward the end of the last set on the dvd too, when jeff brought them on. i a