sweetheart-mine

While listening "The Byrds play Dylan "at 98 dB - wish it was '68 again(would be a tad younger anyway)

thanks all, i'll keep trying. howdjadoo, how thrilling that you remember '68. wow, thought i had to be the only 1 here in my fifties, suddenly discovering "new" rock and going crazy over it. (i mean reeeaaallly crazy, far beyond "oh yah, i like that song.")

thanks so much!

i'm newbie. where is dime, and this collection you mention, which i'd like to get ...

please help?

And, I would give quite a bit for an mp3 of that old song, "Poughkeepsie, City of Sin."

i thought you HAD to be kidding, but googled the song and there it was in the wikipedia entry for poughkeepsie -- the first thing i've learned today. is it "city of sin" because someone thought that something actually happens on hooker avenue where i went to kindergarten.

when my poughkeepsie parents wanted to impress out-of-town visitors (not often), they couldn't think of anything to do in poughkeepsie. so they'd take them to the roosevelt and vanderbilt mansions in hyde park.

i'm very fond of poughkeepsie, but if jeff tweedy can take his gang there i don't know why he doesn't throw southern maine, where i am now, into a tour.

0:50-0:54 of "war on war"

there's a war on

you're gonna lose

(in jeff's "sunken treasure" tour dvd version)

"We are not terribly posterish here in the PKNY"

 

you are a riot.

 

i was born and grew up in poughkeepsie. it wasn't terribly posterish then, either. total strangers, not knowing i'm from poughkeepsie, have made many jokes to me about poughkeepsie. an old boyfriend in mass. who turned out to be lousy said, on our first meeting when i apparently came out with something stupid, "where are you from?!? poughkeepsie?!?" another guy, from brooklyn, had parents who would threaten to send him "up the river to poughkeepsie" if he didn't knock off whatever he was doing wrong. (he moved to chicago and now has many jeff tweedy tales.)

 

jeff should write a song about poughkeepsie.

I'm sorry--I'm new here and put "lyrics" into the search engine but didn't see a specific thread. Go ahead and delete--sorry if I annoyed all of you. I'm just enthusiastic about finding this site and "talking" with other Wilco fans.

i'm new too, and still discovering tweedy lyrics that knock my sox off, so am happy to see a thread like this.

there are so many, but for tonight i have to go with:

you are not my typewriter but you could be my demon moving forward through flaming doors

Wow! I was quite interested in the first post. But it didn't take long for tedious playground squabbling to take over. I really hate to get on my high horse here (I'm not American), but one of the things I love about Wilco (and until now, this site) is that they are a real antidote to some of the negative views of America we are so often fed (which I know to be largely untrue). But please (and I apologise in advance to Blindgonzo and possibly others), don't conform to an image you don't deserve (and don't even get me started on the expat Americans who insist on making moronic noise during Wilco shows).

 

So there! I've added another, possibly irrelevant, post to a thead going nowhere. It's off my chest and I await the backlash.

interesting and revealing post. two observations:

1. from what i understand of jeff tweedy and wilco, like many of us they seem less than interested in throwing darts at people according to nationality, so if you love wilco . . .

2. believe it or not, tedious playground squabbling occurs in every country, province, state, town, and neighborhood the world over. transcend it.

beautyfull!

well they tend to me more uptight for the most part and out of touch.

 

kinda like analogman

going with the side subject of search: somewhere else on the web i was directed here to via chicago to learn more about the history and meaning behind ELT. of course, you know what happened when i typed ELT into the search box. i'm still searching searching searching.

by the way, if you guys think 60 is old, i'll introduce you to my mother. i'm not 60 yet, but not all that far away, and if people in their 50s and 60s are uptight as a group, what are we doing hanging around here as rabid wilco fans just like you? wouldn't "uptight wilco fan" be an oxymoron? yah.

Jeff didn't sound very good. Sounded bored...

must be hard not to be bored after being in the same building as jay leno for more than one minute. i thought they did great, all things considered. my first choice would have been "side with the seeds," but "either way" was not a disappointment.

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So, anyone else have any Wilco dreams they dare to share?

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um, share? no.

what luck, i get to wish jeff tweedy a great 40th after only recently finding him.

happy birthday, jeff tweedy, from a brand-new older fan who loves your voice, your poetic lyrics both abstract and direct, your humor, your music, all of which have drawn me into a great music era that i didn't expect (or even suspect!). thank you so much.

dustie

p.s. they're right, you know, about 40 and beyond. new kind of freedom.

edit: hey, why am i a cherry ghost? signed up as a sweetheart mine. guess i'll take what i can get.