Central Scrutinizer

One Wing has a great musical framework that you can go a lot of different directions with. It all depends on how they choose to flesh it out in the studio. Sunny Feeling sounds like a SBS outtake. Perhaps it may become part of something else.

That's an excellent point about Loose Fur. Those songs have buckshot, but you don't attack those sorts of approaches towards something you don't care about. And thanks for the links. I didn't think to search it, I was just responding to the original post. Great content to be mined here.

I'm guilty of one of those. I don't consider myself an abuser of the technology but when we went to the Wilco concert in town the one song my daughter wanted to hear was Heavy Metal Drummer, which they didn't play. When they played it in the next town I called her and held the phone up when they played it. She said she heard it find and thought it was cool to do that. I remember thinking after hanging up what that would have meant to me when I was younger and I thought I would have been blown away by the idea of being able to do something like that. Today it's taken for granted and abused. Y

About two out of 3 of those would have been my school. Pikes were the Animal House on campus. No hazings, other than having to spring for beers or stupid pranks that you'd do with you'd pull on your college roommates anyway. It just seemed like a lot of $$ to me for some post school business contacts and not much more benefits of just hanging out with decent folk. The comments on being level headed and doing fine are well taken. But that first year/semester is often a case of getting your head screwed on by choice or by consequences.

Eastern Illinois University? That's where everyone under 21 from U of I went to get served.

I had him figured for Lando. Don't ask me why ....

I thought it was the name of the band in "Almost Famous."

I never texted until I got my iPhone. I downloaded an app last night that emits a colored strobe effect. I can't wait to use it at a concert!

I'm going to go buy a leather case for my iPhone!

I almost pledged the Pikes up north. That is apparently a national reputation ...

Ooohhh ... it sounds like already that with this new album the band is going to great lengths to not meet the expectations of its fans.

Because they would keep squirting lighter fluid on Iraq?

I have one more year to wait before I send my kid and my experiences are exactly what keeps me up all night today.

I am annoyed by my neighbor's bedspread, on the bed in the second floor spare room, which you can see between the leaves if there's no wind, if the blinds are up, and you focus the view finder just right.

WTF?

If they ask if anyone has an objection do you hold up your phone with the text message WTF?

... only if you're driving the hearse.

IIRC that rant is about people "fucking talking." Again, complaining about someone texting is something you have to actively be looking for for it to bother you -- it's not like someone talking. It's like getting freaked out about people holding up lighters. If some action in the periphery is bothering you, you're not part of the "communal concert behavior" to begin with.

True. When I read Kot's book the first time, I thought, "wow am I getting a glimpse of this band." But I think I got a lot of the historical outlines, a few glimpses. The Wilco Book I think offers more of the people involved; glimpses that get questions flowing like the ones you've described. Obviously, you've gotten those glimpses from what you're read/looked at. Will a formal effort have to dredge up so much of what you already know just to get a few more glimpses of what you don't?

Agreed. Certainly one of the creepier things about this election -- not that there's anything wrong with that. In hindsight ... there are similarities to Bush supporters in 2000 and Obama's in 2008 as far as form over substance.

I think the one guy made the point I'd rather have the person next to me at a concert texting that yacking away with people around them. Or using the two-way feature on a phone to loudly carry on a conversation about nothing. Also, in posting to a list or board, or forum, you anticipate you are carrying on a conversation, when in reality, your response -- or mine -- could be to an audience of zero. Whereas the text message is welcome and received.

Sounds like an interesting alternative to using thumbs.

I understand what you're saying and you're right. But divorced of the message, I see a bit of the snake oil in this and it rubs me the wrong way, because I've seen fair minded people fall prey to it -- buying the PDL devotional, and the study guide etc. etc. because they may be grateful of the message and taking a sort of "fan approach" (concert T-shirt, obscure EP for sale etc.). The people who are susceptible are referred biblically as "sheep" and tend to blindly follow a shepherd.

That's a good point. You're two for two! What is good and worthwhile is the result of how the message is interpreted. I can sell you a $30 book with a free set of Ginzu knives, the theme of which is "don't kill people." Or I could tell you "don't kill people." Both messages are the same; one has a motive (unless, you're hovering over the second person with a Ginzu knife).