fineartoflife

fineart, I think you have to go to the XRT site and become an XRT VIP. Not sure, though.

 

I'm in...dancefloor, baby!

Yep thanks, you were right.

I actually ended up going after the public sale for Sunday. Section 210 Row C on the balcony. Does anyone know if balcony seats at the pavilion are any good?

Does anyone know the presale password for XRT/Jam? or possibly link me to somewhere I can find it?

I'd say Mule Variations because it has some of his more accessible experimental stuff along with a couple of his "pretty" tunes. I started with Rain Dogs and loved it but I know some people need to lead into it a little more with some of his other stuff (such as his real early albums like Closing Time and Heart of a Saturday Night)

Whichever way you choose, good choice from the get go! That guy is one hell of a guy

Here's a parody of Monty Python's classic Twit of the Year sketch that provides a humorous introduction to the hipster character

and here's something potentially controversial, a hipster themed video that labels Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, and our very own Wilco as all being pretentious and that people only pretend to like them. It's still sort of funny nonetheless

Ahhh thanks. I expected this to be the case but my search came up empty

EDIT: I don't know how to close a thread, but whoever does, this thread needs closing (see second post)

http://spencertweedy.com/blog/wp-content/u...12/dsc07478.jpg

Apparently he subbed in Late Greats on December 16th for his birthday. I would love to see a video, what a lucky guy

No Willie? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I cross my fingers for Chicago, but I kind of hope it's somewhere else since things like these are always here for Wilco. I mean come on, lets share

Ooh la la!

Man, he was such a great drummer. Really brought melody to the drums. One of my all time favorites. RIP

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova singing "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"

Christ for President would be fun. War On War would be great. Something new would also be great

Sweetness, this sounds great. Is this the album with Kotche?

I ain't here to convert atheists into believers

I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers

The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus

I'd like you to define anti-Christian and/or give some specific examples, especially from teachers. I am a social studies teacher, so we focus on religion a lot. 99% of the time, my students and parents are open and appreciative about studying comparative religions. There have been exceptions. My favorite was when a parent called my principal furious because I explained that most historians now estimate the birth of Jesus (I know, I know, if it happened at all) at about 6 B.C. How dare I question what the Bible says about when Jesus was born! Ummm... the Bible doesn't really say a year.

 

Would you consider a scientific approach to discussing the dawn of man is anti-Christian? I'm a Christian and I certainly do not, but many would.

Sorry I wasn't clear, cause I can completely understand how "anti-Christian" can be taken completely out of context. One thing that bothered me was a teacher saying how ironic it was a that those who studied science during in college ended up as preachers/ministers. I raised my hand to ask why it was so ironic, and she seemed to fumble an answer of how faith and science are contradictory to each other. Another instance was an assignment made to assess the morality of certain people in given situations, and for each time a Christian was mentioned they were collectively described as anti-abortion, gun-slinging, and money hording. I understand the need for everyone to realize the consequences of a corrupt religion, but to push stereotypes and false judgements of the Christian faith just doesn't seem fair

Just a quick comment on some of this discussion of religion being forced on people; within the first 6 weeks of my third year in high school, there has been more anti-Christian statements made than there have ever been to the contrary. These have be perpetrated by the teachers just as much as the students, and my claims to rationalize (not fight) their claims have been pretty much shot down by Christian stereotypes. It's pretty insulting to say the least

In the aftermath of the great debate that went on with religion and atheism here: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=36668, what do you all think about the upcoming Bill Maher movie entitled Religulous?

For those who don't know, here's a trailer

and here's an

Personally, I think it is good to expose some of the misconceptions and ignorance of different people regarding their religion, but I also think it is important to look at it not in the mindset of we do with Santa Claus or fairy tales, which it seems to be what he is doing

I'm expecting to be surprised....

yeah.

Hey Jude Paul McCartney near end, is a classic

So is this album a must buy?

So someone just showed me this guy called Andrew Pelletier, and I've liked what I've heard from his website. I was caught by his piano acoustic rendition of Poor Places which I thought was really cool, so I thought at least that would levy some interest

Check him out here: Andrew Pelletier

Not quite. I'm just trying to break down some walls. Get rid of the semantics of religion/spirituality and get down to the heart of the matter, which is the same no matter who you are. I don't think we need to be defined by anything other than the fact that we all breathe, eat, and sleep, i.e. we are all human beings. What I was saying wasn't really to point out the pursuits so much as to point out that we all do pursue, and religion is a means of pursuing that "something," so I think its foolish to reject spirituality when we are all engaged in spiritual pursuits of some kind. I also was trying to say that atheism/agnosticism doesn't really exist, for the very reason that we are all striving for something.

I get what you're saying, and I think that is a very important step in looking at this whole picture

at some point though, it all comes down to if what we are pursuing is actually "something," if that "hole in our heart" persay can actually be filled, or if we attempt to fill it up with other stuff that truely doesn't fit, so we search for what does, and as Christians believe (or at least some) it is Christ, and atheists believe (or at least some) do it is unfillable and our attempt to find something to plug it with is more or less a psychological response to our flawed human condition

Well, I'd say that the Bible was one person's (or a group of people's) view of life. Life was, is, and always will be complicated, unexpected and radical. I'd say its certainly not impossible than an enlightened person could create something so resonant to help us deal with this existence.

Are you saying that they are all legitimate "pursuits," is it just a way to define ourselves when we really aren't?

I guess it all comes down to the divinity of Jesus, when you can separate him from other enlightened people, and define some sort of basis for our existence

Btw, i really enjoyed your description of the human struggle for meaning, it's a beautiful yet ugly yet awesome thing

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