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He's now performed on songs called Hate It Here and I Hate It Here. 

On 12/14/2023 at 12:44 PM, tongue-tied lightning said:

June 13th, 2003 

what a day, VC always feels like home 

Hey you.

June 16, 2003.

Also: I love when it snows on VC. 

And I'm hoping to get his new one for Christmas:

Recommendation for fans of music biographies, or true-life mystery (it's on a bunch of end-of-year Best lists):

And for seasonal funsies, YA-ish Christmas-y rom-com (heavy on the rom) short stories:

On 11/13/2023 at 10:21 AM, dasradiohead said:

California Stars was a request with Jeff explaining that people don't usually like that song.

Maybe it's because it's a while since I've seen Wilco outside of California, but... who doesn't like that song?!?  It gets a great response around here. 

51 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Could have been worse - if they had played in Derry.

If it had been Derry, those farmers waiting for the cattle auction to begin would have for sure been my relations.

14 minutes ago, Analogman said:

Oh - I only added a comma. 

 

I fixed it. 

 

The last time I saw Wilco was in the student union here where I work. 

I didn't mean to make this into a political thread, but I'll take it!  Thanks!  

I saw Wilco in a student union location much like bbop describes at Queens, I think it was in San Diego?  bbop was there, he might remember it.  I don't see anything on Wilcobase that looks like it matches my recollection.  Hmmm...

Edit:  Price Center "Ballroom" at UC San Diego, which is technically in La Jolla!  There it is!

6 hours ago, bböp said:

I've always had a soft spot for shows at college student unions, I guess just because the idea that a legitimate touring band would actually come and play a show in a building where students go every day to hang out, lounge around, meet friends, do homework, shop for groceries, books and other supplies, squeeze in a meal between classes and whatever else you can do at a student union these days seems so weird to me. The idea that a section of this campus building would be cordoned off and used as a de facto concert venue to which those not even affiliated with the school would also be admitted and whilst other student activities are simultaneously going on kind of boggles my mind...

Did you know that Trish did her semester abroad at Queens? And a cousin of mine was President of the QU Student Union a couple of years ago.

3 hours ago, theashtraysays said:

 

• 1 hr Analogman changed the title to Wilco - 6th September 2023, Mandela Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

Seems our reluctant dictator has an accomplice ... ta indeed.

So I should be lodging my complaint about "Northern Ireland" with @Analogman, then? 

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“I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career,” she wrote, “and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track.”

Unlocked link to the NY Times obituary, for anyone who's out of freebies

I thought that too (about the California shows).  But now I'm trying to figure out what Cousin references I'm missing!

I went to college with the author.  This one is getting crazy great reviews, recommended for fans of quirky music, mysterious disappearances, and obsessively-researched biographies.

14 hours ago, Beltmann said:

The 15-day Milwaukee Film Film Festival ended Thursday, May 4 (although some virtual options continued through Sunday). I managed to see 58 feature films and 64 shorts, all while teaching fulltime. I'm feeling half-dead, but exhilarated, too. I'm glad it's over and sad it's over.

I will never understand how you manage this.  But I'm always impressed, and always appreciate your reviews!

3 hours ago, Analogman said:

That was due to the dive/documentary on the wreck. They were able to prove that the unsecured hatch covers did not cause the ship to sink. 

He also said that the mourners were hurt that he referred to the church as a "musty" old hall. He later sang "rustic old hall". 

He changed several of the lyrics to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald because he realized that as originally written, they were in some way unfair or hurtful to the crew or their survivors.  I thought that was lovely, what a kind person he must have been.

I got an e-mail from a local site called Do The Bay about an October show at the Greek Theater in Berkeley: https://dothebay.com/events/2023/10/14/wilco-tickets

Wilcoworld is currently showing Ireland in September, then Monterey 10/8 and Berkely 10/14, then straight to Sky Blue Sky in December.  I'm assuming there will be some other shows filled in there somewhere?

4 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said:

beef-based melancholy

Definitely a better VC tag line. 

https://www.avclub.com/new-oscars-teaser-confirms-the-bear-will-be-back-and-se-1850217739

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The series centers on White as a fine-dining chef who returns to take over his family’s old-school Chicago restaurant, kicking up all sorts of Midwest recriminations and personality conflicts in the process. All while being soundtracked by a pretty exquisite set of indie music tracks for music nerds of a certain vintage–something highlighted by the teaser’s on-the-nose but hard to argue with choice of Wilco’s “Via Chicago” to underscore the beef-based melancholy of it all.

New tag line for VC:  "music nerds of a certain vintage".  

(The Bear probably should have had it's own thread by now!)

This kind of nerdy nonsense is right up my alley, I don't know why I didn't read this whole series decades ago.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is one of my all-time faves, so I'm not sure why I never read anything else by her.  I'm well overdue for this one (literally, it was due back to the library yesterday; I'll need to get through it quickly ).

On 1/28/2023 at 6:07 AM, theashtraysays said:

Just finished this one ... how I've lived in Kentucky these past ~40 years and not read her books is an embarrassment, but started with Prodigal Summer and worked my way through this one.  She's a brilliant writer. 

Love this one, I read it many years ago.  Due for a re-read!

On 1/16/2023 at 6:41 PM, calvino said:

Also started watching the sitcom The Inbetweeners (British) - nice way to unwind down from The English.

5 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

LOL. The first coupdl eo series were good.

My nephew said once that the four main characters on The Inbetweeners were just like him and his three best friends in high school.  So I had to watch it, and I was horrified (and also, horrified at how much I enjoyed it )

2 hours ago, calvino said:

Recently, we did watch the 1st two episodes of  "We Are Lady Parts" --- pretty interesting. 

I loved We Are Lady Parts!

19 hours ago, Doug C said:

It is. I love Nick Hornby, so my oldest got me his new one for Christmas. On the surface, two seemingly disparate artists. After research, two artists with many similarities. He compares them in various ways. Hornby is a big fan of both, and it’s written with his humor, of course. If you’re a Hornby, Prince and/or Dickens fan, or enjoy reading about artistic geniuses, you’ll enjoy it. It’s also a very quick read.

Steve Martin wrote a play, which I saw 20+ years ago, called Picasso at the Lapin Agile.  It's an imagining of Picasso and Einstein meeting a Paris cafe and discussing their respective geniuses.  Lots of fun!  Steve Martin described it as "Focusing on Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and Picasso’s master painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the play attempts to explain, in a light-hearted way, the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science".  The ending is incredibly silly, but it's worth seeing if you ever get the chance.

One more that I forgot to post!  

For anyone who thinks our phones aren't listening to us: I went to college with Adam Langer, did not know him at all, but now we've got a couple of friends in common on facebook.  I was mentioning to my sister last week that I was reading this (we both very much enjoyed one of his previous books, Crossing California).  Next time I looked at facebook, I had a new suggested friend: Adam Langer. 

New one for the new year. 

Link to last year (a few folks, including me, posted a few for this year over there already): https://viachicago.org/topic/54942-now-reading-2022

Just finished this one.  I went to college with the author.  At a reunion a few years ago, I asked how she'd been and she told me this whole story in about 10 minutes.   She was entertaining when I knew her back then, and she's still incredibly entertaining now!