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What's not to like?

From Low's MySpace blog: we're almost done. after the RGC midwest tour, i flew out to L.A. for a couple days to work on more guitars and some vocals (sounds so glamorous when i have to type it out...). nels cline came in and played some guitar, too. i won't even begin to try to explain how awesome he is. now we are going thru rough mixes and the smallest decisions. i'm fairly sure the title is "c'mon." this upcoming tour to new zealand and austalia will be a nice break before final mixing. have a great week. if you can hear me, mavis staples, i love you.

There's a store near me (Newbury Comics which are mostly in the Boston area) that is selling it for $6.99. I think I'll go pick it up at lunch.

More big changes at emusic. The good news is that they are adding more than 250,000 tracks from Universal Music Group to its catalog. The bad news is that the pricing is getting more complicated and, as best as I can tell, more expensive. I will see how this goes for a month or two but this may be it for me. It used to be a good and inexpensive way to hear new stuff but unless there is a lot of Universal Music Group stuff I like (and as long as they continue to not allow unused downloads to carry over) it may not be worth it anymore.

Not really. Touch of Grey was a legitimate top 10 mainstream hit competing with Whitney Houston, George Michael, and Bon Jovi. It really did bring a whole new group of fans to the band. HMD may be the song that non-Wilco fans can identify as being a Wilco song but it's nowhere near the scale of something like Touch of Grey.

I was thinking either Foggy Notion or I'm Set Free (to find a new illusion) ...

I could watch that over and over again. And watching it just now reminded me of how tired I was those couple of weeks.

Not to defend the list but according to the title of the thread it is the best first films by directors ...

Just curious - who would you say was first?

I'm going to see him read tonight.

It's all that and a little bit more. Actually I am enjoying it. I remember reading The Corrections and thinking that I really liked the book and at the same time really disliked all of the characters. This has some of that same feeling but it is very well done. It's a fairly bleak view of America or at least a certain segment of America of which, frankly, I am probably a part. Oh and as I mentioned in another thread Wilco and Tweedy are mentioned a bunch of times.

This would be more "Wilco read while I'm out and about" but I am reading Jonathan Franzen's latest novel Freedom and one of the characters is a musician. As part of his story line there have been several references to Tweedy and/or Wilco.

I too saw them open for Pavement and liked the Jenny more than the Johnny.

Reportedly Jerry only lived there for less than a year. His estate sold it in 1997 and the guy who bought it totally renovated it. About five years ago he was selling items from the house (toilets, dishwashers, drawer handles, etc.) to try to raise money for a foundation. I don't think I ever heard how the sale went but I remember lots of articles at the time about people bidding on ebay for Jerry's toilet. As others have noted, it's safe to say that the place now looks nothing like it did 15 years ago when Jerry lived there.

Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies I have a mandolin I play it all night long It makes me want to kill myself I also have a dobro Made in some mountain range Sounds like a mountain range in love But when I turn up the tone On my electric guitar I'm afraid of the dark without you close to me I went out to the forest and caught A hundred thousand fireflies As they ricochet round the room They remind me of your starry eyes Someone else's might not have made me so sad But this is the worst night I ever had 'cause I'm afraid of the dark without you close to me You won't be happy with me,

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Eleven:Eleven by Come. Saw this guys last night and it was fantastic. Great guitars, great rhythm section. Pretty dark but lots of fun. I think they are only playing two shows - last night and then this weekend at Matador 21.

And reading Kristin Hersh's memoir Rat Girl.

Susan Boyle putting Lou Reed song on album Sept. 22, 2010, 4:46 PM EST Susan Boyle has recorded the song she was prevented from performing on TV. The Scottish sensation was crushed that she couldn't perform Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" on a recent "America's Got Talent" episode. Representatives for Lou Reed have said it was a licensing glitch. But the singer is getting the last laugh: The anthem is set to be the lead song on her second album, "The Gift." Boyle's last album, "I Dreamed a Dream," was the world's biggest-selling album of 2009, and has sold almost 9 million copies to date.

The "interview" with Malkmus was pretty painful but they did a nice version of Gold Soundz.

Pavement is on the Colbert Report tonight.

I remember Throwing Muses used to cover the two Ls on their Marshall amps so they said "Marsha." And yes, tinnitus, I'm looking forward to the rest of your pics because 1) they are always great and 2) I was kinda far back ...

I'm guessing you were close enough to see - was that David Cross who came out and sang with Spiral Stairs?