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The Kinks are one of those bands where I feel like I don't have nearly enough of their catalog as I should. But I do still listen to the Kinks.

Neato! Though it's not totally surprising I'm sure it was a great treat, can't wait to see them this weekend.

Yup. I was talking about this the other day with some people about just how public people's lives have become via-technology with blogs, digital images/video, facebook, etc. It's like everything needs to be documented in order to be worthwhile and it seems like some people just feel the need to "perform" in order to feel like they've accomplished something. I just think it's kind of weird. Also, I wonder how it's going to affect people down the road when employers, etc. are finding out background info on somebody and it turns up that they were "that kid" in a youtube video, or the obnoxio

I only own albums by two of the artists listed.

Vibes to you and your grandfather.

If my memory serves me correctly Des Moines, IA of all places is right now allowing gay marriages as well. Maybe some people are coming around, I don't know. Congrats to your friends.

Have a fabulous weekend birthday

I think this would work well. Seriously. There's no reason not to.

I agree with Cryptique on this one. To me it seems ridiculous how much time/money has been poured into the whole presidential race already...but I guess that's just a product of how eager everybody is to get into the race early. I think the earlier states try to move the primaries the more ridiculously long the election cycle will become, yuck. I think the DNC's stipulations were pretty reasonable, sure the primary system isn't perfect, but it does give states (especially like Iowa) a chance to actually get candidates attention and visits--because election time Florida will be receiving a

Have a good one

Those promo cd's are also the "property" of the record labels forever, so if they really wanted to be dicks they could demand them all back.

No dude, it's cool, just as long as said music consumer in the car is paying royalty fees to ASCAP/BMI, if not then yeah that's definitely stealing both by those other pedestrians AND the car driver.

Well when you buy flour in the store and then bake bread don't you have to pay the flour company for the bread you made from there flour too? I mean this is a perfectly logical model.

While I don't really agree with this, I would definitely see a re-united Uncle Tupelo. I think I would definitely rather see a Loose Fur show, and/or to have traveled back in time to one of those Summerteeth-YHF era shows. That would be interesting. I'd pay decent money for a ticket, but for all the good UT material there is I just find myself more drawn to Jeff Tweedy related work post-Tupelo

Nice, yeah, definitely go through with the trade then. I was eyeing the Deluxes a while back, still can't decide on what to buy (plus I'd have to do some saving for the deluxe at this point).

I do love Boulevard, that's pretty awesome. Small town Iowa doesn't have the greatest selection of beers!

Fat Tire is a great beer. I haven't seen too many tripels in stores, but they are good if you can find them.

Growler is just a half-gallon glass jug full of beerly goodness You can get them at breweries and the nonesuch. Anyways, there's plenty of good beer out there, but I'd try and find out if he likes lighter/wheatier beers, darker/hopsier beers, or darker/stoutier beers. Of course there's always gradations in between, but that's easier to choose among than just one country (Too much range!) Otherwise the recommendation to just head to a good store is great advice

I do agree with the guidelines being a little weird, but in this case maybe they did help, I'm glad that's not normal at every show though. I definitely know what you mean though, I think Wilco is a great concert experience. Can't wait for the 14th too Pretty good month for concerts.

See if you can find a good imported pilsner, they're all the rage in Germany right now, at least according to my friend who got back from Berlin. Czech ones are supposedly excellent too. Also, if you can get anything in a growler it will be 10x better than it's usual bottle counterpart (as it's fresh and all that), perhaps that might be a possibility.

It's a 1600 person venue. I just saw Ryan Adams there last night. The acoustics aren't great, but they're decent and the UofI does a pretty good job putting on productions and keeping things running smoothly. The room was just remodeled the last year or so, so that's a plus, it's basically a large old-school ballroom style room (so the seating is all flat and on the ground), with a raised stage in front. I was about halfway back and had a pretty good view, I would imagine those behind me less so (as I was right by the soundboard/lights which gave me some extra space/clearance. If you get

Same here, but as stated, it's basically up to you. You're not getting "ripped off" here it's just an issue of what you prefer.

All the backing vocals were just the other members of the Cardinals and they sounded great. Pedal steel probably could've been up more in the mix though Too bad you don't get the chance to see them, it was my first time since 2002!

That'd be my birthday, pretty cool. That and the Iowa Caucuses If they hadn't decided to release a more reasonably priced physical format of the album either vinyl/cd I was going to be a little perturbed, but this is grand. Hard-core fans get what they want, everybody gets an album sooner!