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I had no plans to see this tour (despite being a big Pavement fan) but a friend called me at 5:00 yesterday saying he had a free ticket for last night's show in Boston. I am really glad I went; the show was great. I don't have a setlist but it had most of what I expected. The stuff from Slanted sounded particularly good to me. I think it is partly because to my ears Malkmus is a much better guitar player than he was when they wrote those songs.

The Allman's Mountain Jam is based on the Donovan song "There Is a Mountain."

Me too. I usually don't go back past 69 Love Songs in their catalog so I sometimes forget how good that early stuff is.

When Warehouse came out they played the whole album straight through. I know other bands have done that but it was the first time I had ever seen it. I saw them twice on that tour and it was a little weird knowing not just what was coming next but what was coming for the next 90 minutes.

Been listening to a lot of Stereolab recently ...

It is the greatest record ever made in the history of the human eardrum. Number Two: Kiss Alive!

Someone whose debut album sold more than 9 million copies, which I am guessing is a whole lot more than the entire Velvet's catalog has sold. (And it's interesting that Mick and Keith were OK with her recording "Wild Horses.") According to wikipedia, "In May 2010, Susan Boyle was voted by Time magazine as the seventh most influential person in the world, fourteen places above US President Barack Obama, who received one fifth of her votes, and fifty seven above French President Nicolas Sarkozy." I am not conflating popularity with quality (and I consider Lou one of my musical heroes) but 1

I agree. I didn't know much about it the first time I saw it and I thought it was a quirky comedy (which it is for a while). But then it got dark very fast. I remember going back to the theater and seeing it again a few days after I saw it for the first time. One piece of trivia I just learned - the two old ladies who run the junk shop where they buy Jeff Daniels a new suit are Demme's mother and David Byrne's mother.

That is an amazing scene - and for me it is one of the best examples of music in a movie. I remember getting chills when the song started ...

I forgot how much I like this movie. (And given the prominence of the Feelies, you'd think I'd remember.) Some great cameos including John Waters as a car salesman and John Sayles as a cop.

Agreed. He and Jeff Beck must have contests to see who can come up with the worst covers.

I certainly agree on the "Echoes" side of the album (because I have listened to that many many times late at night) but "One of These Days" might give me nightmares.

I had never heard of This is England before last night. I was flipping around the channels and saw it was about to start so I watched. It was great.

63 year old Bill "Spaceman" Lee still at it.

Saw this last night and thought it was great. The look on both Jack White's and the Edge's faces when Page starts playing Whole Lotta Love was priceless.

Even this?

It was pretty crazy. Here is what I don't get - I know it is one of those unwritten baseball rules that you don't steal when your team is up by a lot of runs but I had never heard that it was bad form to steal when you are down by a lot of runs. The coverage I saw last night made it seem like Morgan's steals were what set the whole thing off. And speaking of crazy, Nyjer Morgan is kind of crazy. Did you see the play Friday night where he unnecessarily crashed into the catcher and in doing so missed home plate and was called out?

It shouldn't be that surprising to hear Wilco in a music store but I was just at Newbury Comics in Cambridge (MA) and they had disc one of Being There playing.

It was sort of like the Beltre incident I referred to earlier in this thread. The ump seemed to want to show that he was boss. With Beltre the ump seemed pissed that Beltre and Hernandez were speaking to each other in Spanish and he assumed they were talking about him.

Wow - that totally sucks. Has Rob Dibble commented yet?

I'm walking out for some Mountain Dew, my honey ...

So who is the fourth?

I don't usually complain much about umpires but throwing Adrian Beltre out of the game last night was pretty ridiculous.