deepseacatfish

Welcome oceanbaby! Congrats family

Congratulations on the arrival of Parker! He'll require some pretty small headphones I'd imagine.

You get him a scarf too?

This:

Then this:

I agree! And hey, I was a little over two weeks late too, and look how I turned out.

Yeah late babies! I was 2 weeks late too!

Man, I don't think I would run to Madison if my Kid was just born. Hopefully all goes well for the Stirratt family.

Yeah but I guess that's the dad-rock lifestyle.

Glad to hear that O'Rourke is going to be in on the mixing of this. I think he's got a really good ear for fitting things together.

It's just a political gambit on Rangel's part.

 

That said, despite being a left-wing liberal wack-job, I support the idea of mandatory national service. I truly think the U.S. would be in better shape if every one of us had to dedicate two years to serving our country. Not everyone would end up in the military, but most would. It would just be a fact of life: after high school, you put in your two years' service -- or maybe you defer it for a few years to go to college, but you still have to do it.

Most European countries have mandatory service for both men and women. While plenty of people do serve this by doing military service for a while (usually a year or two years at most), I know that most countries also have the option to do civil service...even sometimes in foreign countries. I was working with habitat for humanity in Colorado and there was a German guy there serving his civil service for a year and a half by helping out impoverished American's (particularly Mexican immigrants) in a homeless shelter.

Personally I think it would be a good thing if more American's got more involved in helping out each other. In all we'd probably end up having more National Guards-people for helping out with disaster relief, more people going into the Peace Corps, Americorps, etc. Just my thoughts.

I'm not a Chicago resident, but I've been to quite a few Auditorium shows. Here's a few places I've been before/after the shows:

 

Then we've also eaten afterwards at Miller's Pub. This place has more photos of celebrities on the wall than you think is humanly possible. Some pretty cool R&R ones at that. I remember their food being pretty good but more expensive than Exchequer. The kitchen closes at 2 a.m., bar closes at 4.

 

http://millerspub.com/index.php

I ate here when I went to the Pitchfork music festival, and I enjoyed it. Haven't been to the other places, but Chicago has plenty of great food very much within walking distance of the Auditorium Theater. I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding a place.

I love it that they still have shows in Gardner. It's the basement of the dorm I lived in my freshman year -- I used to sit on that stage and watch TV in my boxer shorts while my laundry was going. (OK, sorry, TMI.)

 

deepseacatfish, you goin'?

I should be going! And yeah, there's usually someone doing laundry whenever there's a show

Well then, I guess I won't be getting you that Sufjan Holiday CD set for Christmas after all.

I'm sure there are plenty of needy hipsters out there eager to get it from you

1. Heavy Metal Drummer-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Wilco)

2. Ob La Di Ob La Da -White Album (The Beatles)

3. Fitter Happier-OK Computer (Radiohead)

4. Side of the Road-Sea Change (Beck)

5. I'm Still Your Fag-You Forgot it in People (Broken Social Scene)

6. Hit the Plane Down-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Pavement)

7. Rain King-Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth)

8. Little Honda-I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Yo La Tengo)

9. Clementine-Castaways and Cutouts (The Decemberists)

10. Her Majesty-Abbey Road (The Beatles)

Usually I'd add Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" and John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," but I couldn't seperate any tracks out of those that I could put here at all.

Their "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is an awesomely hyper take that really promotes a sense of discomfort, urgency, and nervousness that can be characteristic of "getting no satisfaction." My palms sweat just thinking of it!

Well...I'm not such a fan of this one...but to each their own

However, Devo seriously rules. And anybody who can rock out with a flowerpot on their head is good in my book.

If I couldn't stand what I heard of her voice from her first album would I like this? I've been curious to check it out, but really haven't bothered because I was really pretty put-off by her weird voice when I heard stuff before. I am a big O'Rourke fan, and I'm really interested in hearing the production.

I tried importing the Cd to my Itunes and it did. However, I believe the file is m4a. rather than an MP3. So it still won't hold. Myspace can really be a pain in the butt.

You can change your preferences in iTunes to import as an mp3 instead of m4a, I think it's somewhere under preferences>advanced>importing or something like that.

80.6% Though I know I did hit one button wrong because I thought the second phrase had ended...ah well.

Looks like I missed another one that would be right up my alley.Oh well...that's what happens when you're in 'a 3-hour away town'.

Exactly, only I'm about 5 hours away.

Sounds like a fantastic experience. Sad to have missed it, but I'm sure it was grand.

Just got this from Lala.

Yep. Pretty much I went into it really excited and loved it as much as I thought I would. I'm a big fan of the bear.

Mmm, Tortoise.

It's likely that the downloads are no longer up on the Wilco site, but maybe someone else knows.

Sweet.

Looks like Iowa Dems are doing pretty well, which is pretty sweet!

Damn, if I knew about this sooner I would've loved to have seen this. Ah, well. Those who go will have a fantastic time I'm sure.

My dad read an article about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the Star Tribune when it first came out and told me that I should get the album because I would like it since the article made comparisons to Radiohead, the only other contemporary band I liked at the time. I bought the album and loved it.

I've seen Wilco once, Tweedy once. Both times were great:

Auditorium Theater: October 30th, 2004

1. Hummingbird

2. At Least That's What You Said

3. Radio Cure

4. Muzzle Of Bees

5. Company In My Back

6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

7. Pot Kettle Black

8. A Shot In The Arm

9. Jesus, Etc.

10. Handshake Drugs

11. Heavy Metal Drummer

12. Theologians

13. I'm The Man Who Loves You

14. Poor Places

15. Reservations

16. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Encore 1:

17. War On War

18. In A Future Age

19. Kingpin

20. The Late Greats

21. I'm A Wheel

Encore 2:

22. Another Man's Done Gone

23. Ashes Of American Flags

24. Passenger Side

25. Be Not So Fearful

University of Iowa: February 19th, 2006

1. Sunken Treasure

2. She's A Jar

3. Blasting Fonda

4. Pieholden Suite

5. Please Tell My Brother

6. Black Eye

7. One By One

8. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

9. Muzzle Of Bees

10. Spiders (Kidsmoke)

11. Summer Teeth

12. (Was I) In Your Dreams

13. The Ruling Class

14. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

15. Forget The Flowers

16. Airline To Heaven

17. Theologians

18. new song (Is That The Thanks I Get?)

Encore 1:

19. Not For The Season (with Glenn on drums)

20. The Late Greats (with Glenn on drums)

21. War On War (with Glenn on drums)

22. Far, Far Away (with Glenn on drums)

23. Heavy Metal Drummer (with Glenn on drums)

24. A Shot In The Arm (with Glenn on drums)

25. I'm The Man Who Loves You

26. Acuff-Rose

This thread reminded me that I needed to pick up a Roxy Music CD, so I picked up "For Your Pleasure" and am liking it so far!