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I've suspected for a while that Bob is a bit off his rocker. This pretty much confirms it.

Some guy named Hank wore this suit:

Parsons also spent a semester at Harvard studying theology, trivially speaking.

I might possibly know where at least one copy of the setlist went.

The Flying Burrito Brothers did the full band thang, too:

Here's a snippet of an interview with Nels that pertains to the suits: http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2008/09/wilco-new-suits-new-album.php Nels: Well, it was all Jeff Tweedy's idea, certainly, and Jeff bought them for the band. So I asked if they had a Day of the Dead style suit -- with a skull and cross bones. And they said, "Well, yeah. Look at the jpeg." So I picked that one and I asked for angels on the back shoulders, which they added. How long did the process take? Nels: It was kind of a rushed job. The idea was born three months before Lollapalooza and it take

Prior to any tour edition EP or any similar stop-gap*, I'm really looking forward to the Beck collaboration on Skip Spence's Oar since: It's 22 songs of new Wilco material If it's anything like Beck's cover of the VU & Nico, it will feature the band unrehearsed, raw and (in my opinion) potentially exciting in a "without a net" fashion I don't really have any strong opinions or affinity for the original, so the album will come off as entirely new to me Looks like we will have to wait three long weeks for this to start trickling out. * - And the 7 Worlds Collide album, too, forgot

I felt a little bad for the fact that Peter Grosz was getting largely ignored in that meet and greet line. I mean, not too bad. Just a little.

Thanks man. 'Course, the lyric ("We used to have a lot of things in common, but you know now we're just the same") is one of my favorites off AM. Personally though, I think Remembering the 'Mountain Bed' more than makes up for the fact that he occasionally Forgets the 'Pick Up the Change'. "So Much Wine" sounded great, as did "True Love Will Find You in the End", which doesn't get trotted out too often. As I said to a friend, there are no bad setlists at Tweedy / Wilco shows.

You can buy tickets at the door: http://www.natiiv.com/events/2009/aug/8/jeff-tweedy-solo/

Well, my statement didn't really apply to subgenres. It dealt with quality of recorded music, period. Sure, the Shaggs are a horrible pop music band, but they weren't a pop music band, or even popular. "Mathematically worse" is a pretty specious notion that doesn't really hold any water. A good example is Pat Boone, whose recordings may be "mathetimatically" great (fuck if I know, since there aren't any mathematical formulas for this stuff, anyway), but who sings without any soul. Therefore, he is generally considered a lesser contributor to popular music than Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, or

There is plenty of shitty, forgettable music that is "mathematically sound", and there is a ton of great, highly praised music that is off pitch. The entire punk music genre - "never quite meeting pitch and when they do, they waiver quite a bit" can describe the entire creative outputs of Joe Strummer, Patti Smith, and Lou Reed. Your effort is a failure. Try again.

I think there are no standards for quality in art. We try to pretend there are, but one can't present a logical case that the Beatles are better than the Shaggs. Or that Jackson Pollack is any better than any other artist who decides to throw paint on a canvas. Or Pollack's paintings are decidedly worse than the frescoes in the Sistene Chapel. Sure, our gut tells us all these things are true, but try to come up with stated axioms on why they are true and I think you'd run into a brick wall.

Don't know if this has already been mentioned, they have the W(TA) tracks + Dark Neon + Unlikely Japan instrument credits posted on Wilcoworld: http://wilcoworld.net/records/thealbum/credits.php

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There are no bad yarmulke jokes.

This one is a favorite right now:

Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about Citizen Kane. I can see its importance and technical brilliance, but it's about as entertaining to me as a root canal. Casablanca is way more entertaining to me, and I think it is well-regarded due to being a sentimental favorite - it's far from the best acted, directed or written movie ever, but it has a tug on people's heartstrings that few movies have.

It's been a while. I hope he sticks around.

Probably both, you know? Brando's performance is both a study in overindulgence and a gripping portrayal of a man who has lost his sanity. Whether that man is the character Kurtz or Brando himself is the question.

A great argument for favorite / best centers around Apocalypse Now. It's probably my favorite movie, but it's deeply flawed. It's kind of a beautiful mess. The many on-and-off the set problems Coppola ran into while making it lend credence to that.

Best Comedy of All Time: The Big Lebowski Favorite Comedy of All Time: The Big Lebowski No conflicts there.

Not sure about party hats, but I will be hawking "I Attended Jeff Tweedy's Bar Mitzvah" stamped yarmulkes outside the venue.

Were you on Postcards from Hell? I remember a lot of negative talk about Postcarders in the early days.

It boggles the mind what your post count would be if you were never banned.