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Still thinking about last night's show.

Nice write-up here including a photo of the setlist: http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/09/08/love-til-sunday-check-replacements-setlist-boston-calling/ The bottom is torn off but Alex Chilton was the last song.

Agreed. Very good and fun time. Westerberg certainly flubbed some (lots) of the lyrics but I thought they sounded great. Mix of songs and if anything it leaned towards earlier stuff (Takin' a Ride, I'm in Trouble, White and Lazy). Nice cover of I Want You Back. Not too much banter but Westerberg's funniest line might have been "I smell weed. Fuckin hippies!"

Yes indeed.

Correct. Seeing them in the 5th row at the Orpheum back in January was a whole lot better. They were good tonight but they require a little more intimacy, I think.

I'll add to the off-topic and the mixed feelings on Boston Calling. I'm going tonight and Sunday and somehow feel I should be more excited about the whole thing. I have not been before but I've spent a lot of time in and around City Hall Plaza and just can't imagine how they will make it a decent place to spend many hours seeing music.

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They are on Letterman tonight (with Elizabeth Warren and Kristen Wiig). I assume Warren and Wiig are not part of the band.

It is but unfortunately it is hard to find. I borrowed this from a friend. It is out of print and used copies tend be be in the hundreds of dollars. They are reprinting it so I plan to buy the updated version when it comes out this fall. There is a lot of great stuff on-line about the Walled City, including a bunch of video taken on the inside.

City of Darkness: Life In Kowloon Walled City. An amazing book of stories and photographs of this massive, mostly ungoverned settlement in Hong Kong which was demolished in the 1990s.

And more from the current email: And the anniversary revelry won't stop there – we'll soon announce news about two forthcoming releases – Wilco's first-ever Best Of collection and a Rarities box we're pretty sure you're gonna love.

I know I'm in the minority on this but I didn't love this. I really liked the first two and there was a lot to like about this third one. I guess one thing that bothered me was that I felt Jesse and Celine were giving speeches rather than having conversations, particularly in the first half. I also thought that Celine's turn-around at the very end was way too sudden. But it was also interesting to watch this and think of the relationship between these three movies and Boyhood.

Looking for something lighter so I thought I'd finally get to this ...

Liking this. Champions of Red Wine is a favorite ...

Should have been there. I thought it was a great show. A little bit of chatter but not much. Just came out, plugged in, and played one song right after another.

Agree. I wasn't going to go but a friend just called and said he had an extra ticket so I'm in.

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Pretty compelling story. It's amazing that the 1936 Olympics were even held.

Good one.

I'm normally a stay-through-the-credits person but when we saw this yesterday my wife and I noticed one of our crazy neighbors and her crazy boyfriend were also in the theater so we left as soon as the credits began to roll.

Ha! Just got home from seeing it and had this exact thought. And I'll pile on about how great it was.

Wow - something must be up. It also includes the Jamaica event in January of 2015.

Don't know if it's changed but the original report was that Buck would be there for four shows: Great Scott--Boston Ommegang Brewery--Cooperstown Rough Trade--Brooklyn Asbury Lanes--Asbury Park

I read a lot of Vonnegut in high school and college (which was a while ago). A few years ago I picked up Breakfast of Champions and it didn't do much for me. But I found a nice copy of Slaughterhouse Five recently and just re-read it and really enjoyed it.