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Everything posted by Chinese Apple
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Here's Louis CK performing in the 300 yr old Zhengyici Peking Opera Theatre at an invitation-only event in Beijing last Sunday. Looks perfect for Wilco... http://www.thebeijinger.com/gallery/Louis-CK-Comedy-Show
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Yes, I remember reading that show reviewed and feeling envious. I think he also said the only song possibly quieter that that was Dash 7. I can't seem to find any recordings for that show, though. I'm comparing the solo version to the full band version.The drumbeat and bass line definitely give the song thrust. So lovely.
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Of course, my dear. All in good fun. No hard feelings. I'm obsessing over another song today. And apologies if I offended with my rude junior high innuendos about probing annals of the mind, etc. Don't know what came over me. I'm just in here hiding from an impending deadline. (I think I need to pay my therapist 90 dollars to talk about my compulsion to always have the last word...)
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Clever! Clearly you always win at this, Atticus.
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Do they actually play songs we request?
Chinese Apple replied to blackmoon77's topic in After The Show
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Well, I stand corrected! I guess it has been played live a lot more than I thought. :-) Thanks for the tips on the different live versions -- it will be an aural feast. I'm going to put them end-on-end in a playlist. The structure of this song lends itself to a periodic binge.
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Listen Pillowy, you're not alone. I'm with you. I've requested that song many times. I know it is not concert friendly and will never get played because it is super quiet and sleepy. I guess I've request it repeatedly because I want the song to get "votes" in that huge Wilco surverymonkey database of songs that fans love. If the song were a person it would be the quiet shy girl who is beautiful on the inside, but never gets asked to the dance. Only released on a free EP for crying out loud -- never got the recognition it deserved. I've just downloaded the 2003 solo show Anthonyc007 s
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I may have been over-confident in my own ability to filter out some of the sillier things I read on this thread. But seriously I cannot listen to that song now. It came up on random shuffle today and i had to skip. I think there is something insidious about reading verses hearing something in conversation because reading is done in your own minds voice. I hope I can restore the song after enough time passes, or maybe if I get to hear it played live in the near future. (Going to all three Italian shows in October. Yay!) Best case scenario would be if Jeff intros the song and says for certa
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Perfect! Thanks a bunch. :-)
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Has the song "More Like the Moon" ever been performed live? If yes, does a recording of that performance exist which can be shared?
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This song has been ruined by y'all -- I can't listen to it now without having to consciously dodge thoughts about drugs and sexual deviancy. It was definitely more enjoyable for me as a simple ode to domestic abuse. Sometimes this board is a disservice to Wilco...
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Let's move on lest we delve too far and touch a nerve. The gloves may come off then!
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Not that I am not intrigued by Atticus's interpretation -- the annals of his mind certainly deserve further probing!
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Like I said -- all art is Rorschach... It's not about the song, it's all about you.
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So maybe the "hit" in the last line could be a different kind of hit than I'd originally imagined. Dammit. This sort of makes me want to listen to the song backwards for hidden meaning...
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That is pretty much how I watch porn. I never really listen to the dialogue or pay attention to any sort of narrative or structure unless it is obvious, and I think it quite ENHANCES my enjoyment of the works. There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I read in the Atlantic that he wrote the words for Born Alone this way: "I wasn't coming up with anything specific, so I opened up a book of American poetry and randomly turned to the Emily Dickinson pages, no one poem in particular. I took a lot of words, most of them verbs, and put them against words that looked appealing to me from
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I'm a little wary of over analyzing things I love. Like vivisection, dissecting something to see what makes it live, and killing it in the process. But I enjoyed reading your analysis of this song, which I also love. I have always interpreted this song to be about a physically abusive relationship. And I think it is clever how the "punch" comes at the very end, in the very last line "she begs me not to hit her." I think in some of the best Wilco songs (which is just about all of them), there is an alchemy that happens with the melody and the lyrics, a WonderTwinPowersActivate, if you will.
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Wilco -- 6/4/2012 Forbidden Fruit Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Chinese Apple replied to Chinese Apple's topic in After The Show
The only thing that slightly marred the performance for me was the over-zealous use of the fog machine. Could hardly see the band! Definitely could not see Glenn for parts of it. Ireland has naturally occurring mist, especially in the evening after a sunny day, so IMHO extra fog was redundant. -
Sorry, I was too much in the moment to take notes. Maybe someone more sensible will provide a set list. It was fabulous though. Short but intensely marvelous. They played (not in this order) Art of Almost, I Might, Whole Love, Too Far Apart, Laminated Cat, Spiders, Shot in the Arm, Monday, Heavy Metal Drummer, I'm the Man Who Loves You, Via Chicago, Born Alone, Impossible Germany... Almost no banter except for a remark about the gloomy weather, an intro to Too Far Apart (first time to be played in Dublin), and that it was Mr Jorgensen's birthday today. JT promised that they will be back to D
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http://www.hotpress.com/Wilco/music/interviews/A-Love-Supreme/8926540.html?new_layout=1
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Wilco will go on just as the sun goes down (at 21:47), and there will be some sun and light rain (expect rainbows) throughout the day. There's rain expected most of the weekend, so It's going to be muddy in that well trampled field! http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2964574/extended?day=4 I guess I'm glad it will be a short set so I don't have to be standing out in the mud and rain too long.
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I am "naturalized Irish", came here initially against my will (for love), but these days I've developed an ersatz Stockholm Syndrome and consider this my home. I have high expectations of the Irish Times. I really want them to be on par with the New York Times or Washington Post. Ms. Murphy may have been writing for a free supplement, but she is still on the Irish Times staff as a entertainment writer. It's not like she is some rookie reporter. Yikes. I will brace myself... Thanks for the heads up! To be honest, I think I am just still hurting from the short set Wilco will play at t
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Yes, FIVE people she knows consider him a genius. Whereas I assume the other 1300 people of her facebook friends do not. When I read that line, my immediate thought was: damned with faint praise. I would have laughed too if I were a Grammy award winning musician whose record has been considered one of the 100 best in music history by various publications, who has a huge cult following. I would laugh not out of modesty, but as a meta-chortle that implies "how interesting that this little lady's five friends appoint themselves as arbiters of genius." Anyway, I find the Irish Times generally
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Other fun things to do in Ireland if you are in town for the weekend before the closing Wilco set at the Forbidden Fruit Festival... If the weather is nice, the Bloom Garden Festival in Pheonix Park (Europe's largest city park): http://bloominthepark.com/ I'm not great at gardening, but they always have fantastic artisan/organic/locally sourced food and beautiful Irish crafts there. I love it! Another great musical offering that weekend is the Rory Gallagher Tribute Festival: http://www.goingtomyhometown.com/ in Donegal. Donegal is fabulous -- a lot of literary types and artists from all
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Badly written article in the Irish Times. http://www.irishtime...4316645587.html She waits about 100 words before launching the "ashes of Uncle Tupelo" trope.