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Since this signing all of the sports talk here in town has now shifted to "now do they sign Brandon Phillips ". He is reportedly not thrilled.

Looks like I'll have an extra GA for tonight if anybody here is interested.PM me.

Let me set the scene. I'm in the truck, windows down on a 65 degree sunny Kentucky afternoon. I've just picked up my girls (6 & 4) from the babysitter and a detour is in order...its way too pretty out. We are winding thru a local, densely wooded park with sunlight beaming thru the leaves where it can. Josh Ritter's "Light of My Lantern" goes off of the excellent local public radio station and I hear those sweet first few strums...ah "California Stars". Made our day.

I'm actually really digging this song. This performance on SNL was the first time I had heard it and thought it was very "ok" but it has came through randomly on my Ipod twice in the last week which further proves my theory that my ipod has a brain and reacts to my every thought but thats for a different forum. Anyway I know this song doesn't have alot of teeth and is pretty easy to listen to but those two qualities werent always negatives.

Did somebody already say Nine Inch Nails?

I do this every few months and still come away amazed. A couple weeks before Whole Love released I took a break from the site just because I was getting frustrated with the over analyzation of the yet to be released album. There was too much thinking going on for my taste! Take a break Crow, its quite refreshing.

It was just an observation on how quickly some people tend to grade albums these day. Seems like when really good bands make a new record these days nobody is just happy to have a new album by a good band...it's usually more like "why doesn't it sound like their old stuff", or "it sounds too much like their old stuff", "they played it safe", etc... I think this record sounds just like all the other Shins albums and I'm good with that.

A pretty tell tale sign that your a good band is when people immediately say your new stuff sucks before its even released even if it sounds just like your past few records which they enjoyed.

Maybe not the best but one of the coolest was when I was remodleling my 100+ year old house. Found some firecrackers in the rafters wadded up in an issue of the Kentucky Post from around 1908. The firecrackers still worked and there was a reward in the classifieds for a "lost 20 lb bag of sugar which fell out of a buggie somewhere on Dixie Highway".

The "One Fast Move..." album is in my top 25 favorite albums. Perfect blend as you said acompanied by some fabulous songwriting.

Northern Ky as well as Southwest Ohio were hit pretty hard. I believe they are saying at least 10 people died in the tri-state area here. My little town was virtually untouched but places as close as 10 miles as the crow flies had entire streets wiped out. Moscow Ohio which is about 30 miles Southeast is 85% "gone" according to the news. I was out on the porch with a coffee watching it roll in from the Southwest and I started to notice debris falling from basically nowhere out of the sky. It was originating way up, higher than could possibly be from any trees or gutters around. Started as lea

Side one is pretty much flawless. If you bought this record and are dissapointed I'm not quite sure what you were looking for going in. I think all four contributors delivered.

This is outstanding. Jacket Saturday,Wilco Sunday, outdoors in the middle of summer. I'm going to have a dream tonight about Wilco's encore with Jim James,Neko,John McCauley,Justin Townes Earl, Dr.Dog, Andrew Bird, Daniel Martin Moore and Beach Hose jamming a 15 minute "Spiders". I believe they call that a nocturnal emission.

I can't believe they are pandering to the incessant whining of the Via Chicago Floridians!!!! Vince, join me in the mentioning of how few times the current line up has visited Central and Northern Kentucky.

Dr.Dog @ the 20th Century Theatre

I was a little baffled by the sell out this morning. Possible contributers could be the mention in the newsletter, the new album, and or just general growing popularity. One thing that caught my eye immediately though was the limit of 8. Its GA so I cant see one scenario where an individual would have to buy tickets for 7 other people that are not available to get online on a late Saturday morning. The last two years these shows have been no more than 3/4 the way full. I'd say if your standing outside the Vic at 7:45 your still pulling a ticket for maybe $75 at the most.

I had to put 4 individual tickets in my cart for Saturday night. This will my third year in a row. Starting to get tricky though with the kids getting older. Actually rescheduled the family's spring break getaway. Loser...maybe but these shows are pretty special. Might actually get in line early this year and hear that acoustic "On and On and On" that I've longed for.

It was said I was a precocious youth with an affinity for Phil Donahue bred from 2 smart ass parents.....deadly concoction.

I can't remember Mike Love not looking and acting like a douche. I can actually remember being about 8 and seeing him in the Kokomo video and thinking "man..... that guy looks like a pompous ass".

I actually thought Foster the People and the Beach Boys were not bad together...the dude from Maroom 5 looked scared to death and sounded horrible.

Jeff looks like a drunk hobo who was walking past a photo shoot of a band whom happen to be missing its frontman but had a suit laying there and said "Hey...homeless guy. Here, put on this suit and jump in this picture real quick" and he agreed under the condition he could leave his hat on.

If it makes you guys feel any better ACL is on 2 different channels in the Cincinnati area...one at 10 pm and one at 11pm so I'm watching for the 2nd time. Oh and it's amazing.

Sounds like a nice gesture from a music fan...thanks. I'm sure its not in my budget but if you get to the throwing it away stage I'd gladly go thru your garbage.

Great sound! Five dollar album on Amazon.

What a great movie. Plenty of technology on display in that clip, a mouse...call waiting!