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    Wilco at Marble Mountain

    in Just A Fan

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    I love this vid and can't get enough of it over the years:

     

     

    The guys are having a great time, the locale is ridiculous, the crowd is pumped, there's a Spinal Tap moment involving Max falling off the stage and playing on his back. Great stuff.

    What are your top pet peeves?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Search functions on computer-buying websites. The build-your-own ones. For whatever reason, they have you toggle between a series of options "Portability v. Sandwich-making," "Word processing v. Readability creation" instead of entering the specifications you would like. I consistently indicate that I want a small, high-performance model and I consistently get some 17-inch, slow dinosaur when I'm finished.

     

    Along those lines, sites that make it difficult or impossible to sort by price, and instead show you "Best Value" or "Recommended Specials" by default, which are usually huge ripoffs that the site is making the most margin on. This applies to booking hotels on travel sites (Expedia, Hotwire, Travelocity, etc.) also.

    Now Playing: April 2010

    in Someone Else's Song

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    I think that it may be their best album yet. It's definitely one of their best.

    It's more straight-ahead rock than any of their other albums... the least amount of odd East Indian goings-on; the sitars and whatnot are more for decoration and less the focus of the songs. But the songs themselves are some of the strongest, hookiest that the band has ever recorded.

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    Sounds great, thanks for the review, I'll check it out tonight. Their last two records are fun and pretty consistent, sounds like this one won't disappoint.

    Wilco Solid Sound Festival

    in Just A Fan

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    This part of Masschusetts is called "The Berkshires" and hotel rooms fill up for the summertime well in advance anyway. The popular Williamstown Theatre Festival draws huge crowds during the summer

    I actually know a guy who's on the Board of Trustees of this (more like my parents know him, he's a family friend). That festival attracts ridiculous numbers of celebs. He's told all kinds of stories of Jack Nicholson sleeping on his couch, Gwyneth Paltrow swimming in his pool and forgetting her swimsuit at his house, etc. Shouldn't be surprising if a few recognizable faces show up at WilcoFest '10.

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