Central Scrutinizer

"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."

It's an "implied" right.

They're supposed to show impartiality when you disagree with his decision. If you're in favor, it's the passion of his reasoning.

Check out Norah Jones' version of "Jesus, etc." on her new album.

I guess it's an over simplification to ask if unfettered spending has forced us to drink only Bud or only Miller, or eat at only McDonalds or only Burger King. It's easier to argue that big business has already controlled our decisions. And yes, it boils down to a society that only focuses on the immediate -- loud, bright, shiny, or what can fit into 140 characters. The social network mindset has de-evolved to people espousing opinions on a subject before it's even fully reported and forming sides in anticipation of what the facts are going to be (and how the other side is going to twist it).

Panther, I thought you left?

We managed to spin the animated Ringo laugh into a catch phrase as a junior college of about 4,000 people, about 3,995 of which had never heard or seen the cartoon before. Huh-huh-HEH-huh-huh-HEH .... yeah!

Not directly Wilco-related but interesting photos by Richard Barnes. He spent two years photographing massive swarms of European starlingscongregating for their biannual forage in the Roman countryside. The swarms are their protection against predators, and the group undulates through the sky as each bird desperately avoids being left out on the dangerous edge. Looks like a certain album cover. http://www.richardbarnes.net/murmur01.html

The next "scribe" who pens, "from the alt-country ashes ..." feels the phoenix's fate.

I hadn't been on here in a few weeks. I e-mailed the person who set up the one I participated in last year, but didn't hear back. Shame to, because I was the champion. I guess you all have a more fighting chance now!

I would be interested if it's still open.

There's like four paragraphs of actual interview/new material, and yet another rock journalist regurgitating their history from "the ashes of alt/country" to describing Tweedy's upchucks on IATTBYH.

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I didn't see this previously within this thread. Apologize if redundant. From Beatlesnews.com Details of Beatles Remasters summarized in Chicago by David Haber, Beatles News Editor On August 15 at the 2009 Fest for Beatles Fans in Chicago, respected journalist and Beatles historian Matt Hurwitz and Beatles author Bruce Spizer gave a presentation to the large audience of Beatles fans about the remastering of the Beatles catalogue, which will be released this September 9th, 09-09-09. Both Mr. Hurwitz and Mr. Spizer have had the privilege of hearing some of the remasters. Below is a summa

Calling Being There "a 'Catcher in the Rye' for music lovers" is an interesting take by the writer.

It's cool that you're doing this. I would dissuade against including MA for a few reasons. One I'd say the Elton John analogy isn't apropos specifically for Tweedy as songwriter found an audience as much (if not more) for his lyrics than his melody lines and song structure. Two, his melody lines and strong structure are arguably a collaborative process among the various Wilco incarnations and Tweedy's primary influence/collaborator at the time, which further emphasizes his lyrical content. Three, That said, MA is an odd duck of collaboration -- it was the Bernie Taupin-Elton John argu

I think there's a parallel among economists and music critics. They both become so enamored with the past and future -- and spinning their own take on both, that they fail to live, or at least assess the current. Past can be prelude, and an economy can be forecast based on past trends, and an artist's work compared against past efforts, with an eye for what to expect. But it's heaping a lot of analysis on what you have no control over it, and trying to put yourself in a position that you have it figured out. But trying to forecast people, creativity, muse, the nuts and bolts of a persons lif

Does Rogan drive a VW in the movie?

One would argue that even NPR's coverage has a "lean," based on its audience. But, granted, they give all sides opportunity to whack at them, and will broadcast their opposition to coverage. So, hyperbole, short of a line in the sand, is the best I can offer.

NPR is an exception and a precarious one at that. The erosion of journalistic integrity is NOT hyperbole.

NPR is dismissed as liberal rubbish. Another conservative regime could squeeze the last life out of it. It's a process of erosion -- institutions like NPR, and PBS are fighting to hold a line when everything else is working against it. The world phenomenon is millions of people speaking their minds in 140 characters -- AND NOBODY LISTENING.

I think "journalism" will be buried with him. Accurate and original reporting has ceased to exist, the gray areas of what's acceptable in reporting -- verifying sources, getting content on the record versus reporting gossip or regurgitating other publication's gossip -- have been given up in the noise that media and the Web bleats today. That he would die with his reputation foreign to so many makes his passing even sadder.

Back when the album was leaked, I said that I thought this album spoke of the relationship between band and audience -- beyond just Wilco (the Song). In fact I saw You and I, not as a love duet, but as a sort of flipside to The Lonely 1 -- tweedy characterizing the relationship with fans and what they share, don't have to get too deep into what it all means etc. I saw this quote from a Q&A published 7/16 (it references the cover concept) and I found a bit of validation in this: "It was supposed to be a subtle commentary on identity and how people pour themselves into the identity of the

Oh, then count me whelmed.