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I have an odd obsession with how much particular acts cost to book. One of the first things that comes into my mind when I hear someone is playing is "wonder how much they charge". I have a friend with some industry insight and I've been blown away by some of the rates he's thrown around for certain acts. Doing a little digging on the web I found the link below. Its an old article but still lends some perspective on supply and demand vs my tastes and what I think people are worth. Kinda neat reference, granted there are plenty of variables that would affect a bands cost at any given venue.

Pequods is the best pizza in Chicago therefore the world. Worth the trip...get an Uber. Be a long walk after a couple slices.

I finally got around to listening to this. I feel like the arc of all conversations with Jeff go the same way: Belleville, mom, headaches, early musical influence, jay farrar, Yankee, rehab, at peace. Admittedly though I am not a big Maron fan. When he is not interrupting a guest to give his take on the particular topic or reminding us he went to rehab he is agreeing with the guest by saying "yes" and "exactly" loudly over the guests so you can't hear their take and they eventually end their sentence. I think he gets the best guests....by a landslide but I've given up on his podcast because I

Regardless of what it yields the Reds have been very active this off season and have added a ton of potential value for what I consider to be a very little bit of money. I am super pumped for this season. Cincinnati is electric when the Reds are in contention and I think baseball in general is better when the Reds are relevant. We've been stagnant for the last two decades. Don't get me wrong...we are in a brutal division and I am aware the experts still have us finishing last or second to last but the city is optimistic.

A baseball glove, a rubber ball and a brick wall. I spent entire summers in the alley behind my house. You could throw yourself a grounder, a short hopper, a pop up or line drive. Can't really think of the last time I saw a kid doing that....it my be gone forever.

There is a version of "Philosophers Stone" on Youtube from the Jools Holland show that might be the coolest music clip on the Interweb. Piano player plays the intro and Van likes it so much he tells him "one more time". He looks like the ultimate maestro. Well worth checking out. A whole bunch of killer musicians on stage.

I know this is hypothetical but one more season and he is at 3000 hits and 400 homers which is a first ballot lock. It think the problem is he had a somewhat boring career. Alan Trammell is in by the way with 500 less hits, less than half the homers and a lower average.

He was a season away from 3000 hits and 384 home runs . Those are HOF numbers in my book which is actually the book that means nothing to anyone when it comes to HOF voting.

Are you visiting the "Some Factory" ?

Nice work young man!!! So Jeff will make 51....unless your crashing some local dive in Lexington tomorrow night for an 80's cover band just to pad your numbers.

When I was 20 I went on a canoeing trip with a buddy my age and his older brother and cousin who were probably 8 years older than us. In the car on that trip I heard Elliot Smith XO and a song called "Airline to Heaven" by another band. Up to that day I was pretty convinced there hadn't been a good, new album come out since around 1996 as I was a grunge kid and had not been exposed to music like this. Literally a life changing car ride.

I quit following politics(again) when Trump won. I had quit some time before that and started paying attention again for the last political election. For the record I vote on all levels and am active at the local level. I do my homework before election season but for the most part I skip over almost any politically themed article in the "news" and I don't watch any of the 24 hour networks anymore. For some reason yesterday on the way home I tuned in via public radio to the hearing. I was quickly reminded why I choose not to invest my time and emotion into this system anymore. The senator from

What number you on there Ashtray?

6>3>5>1>8>7>10>2>4>9 Would not be offended if the next record was called "Golden Loose Fur SmogTeeth"

Lord Huron has been doing a pretty cool version of Harvest Moon lately if you haven't heard that yet.

There is nothing more enjoyable than agonizing over what stereo equipment to buy. I am currently in my Sonos stage right now but before that I had a hearty bookshelf system with 6" Bowers and Wilkins, center channel and a sub. I miss that set up but definitely prefer my current. Regardless, the thrill of the hunt is almost as fun as plugging in whatever you go for. It would be hard at this point for me to go back to a non-wifi set up.

Sonos Play-5 with (2) Play-1's in stereo. I'm probably about 5 years into Sonos. Started with the set up mentioned and they had babies...I now have 8 speakers total littered throughout the house. Your phone is your remote or you can pull from a laptop or desktop so I have all my music and anything I want to stream at my access. Sonos claims its audiophile quality, I don't think it is quite that good but it is very good and extremely convenient and "clean". I have a 1982 Technics direct drive plugged into the aux port. Its a nearly perfect set up in my opinion.

I'm biased because I am a huge fan but I don't know if "wasted talent" would correctly define his career. Since the beginning he has done what he wants and been as successful as he wanted to be at it. I don't think his plan was ever to play arenas for 3 hours without an opener. I would say Layne Staley was wasted talent. Malkmus is completely independent and uses that freedom to play what he wants when he wants. He's always dodged conformity but he has been churning out art for 30 years on his terms. I saw him this tour and it was great and while it was a shorter set in comparison to most I l

Dylan at a large outdoor venue. We wanted to leave so bad but my guilt kept us there. It was terrible. Garbled Yiddish

Thought I'd see Sonny Feeling more than I have.

I respect the hell out of this statement, but what I relate to most with is about the Beatles. They not only wrote some really, really bad songs but they put them on studio albums. I consider the Beatles to be the “best” band ever imo, I also think they are simultaneously the most popular band ever and the most underrated. They changed it all, we’re probably not talking Wilco on Via Chicago without them. That being said they stuck some real garbage in between sequences of unprecedented genius.

Interesting dynamic of "At Least That's What You Said" is while that it is one of my favorite songs by the band I've maybe listened to it in its entirety twice, once out of curiosity and probably the other time due to laziness of not hitting skip. I personally love "Leave Me Like You Found Me". Jesus Etc has always been my pee break song at shows, I don't hate it but its not required listening/viewing. I would say mine is "Shrug and Destroy" or "Kicking Television".

Doesn't mean you hate it....just least favorite.

Poor Places(Kicking TV version) Mountain Bed One by One Future Age Radio Cure ....ask me again next week.

tomorrow...Lord Huron, the Breeders, Father John Misty, Feist and the National. Big weekend for the National playing two night in their hometown on the river front. Playing Boxer straight through Sunday evening. Big night for Cincy music as well. Our outdoor venues of any substantial size are not great. This is the first show at the newly revitalized riverfront park. Oh, and I'm 6 minutes by Uber so that doesn't hurt.