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I know tinnitus and I are hijacking this thread but here is what today's Globe said about Neko being pissed off: "When Neko Case finally stalked on stage at the Wilbur Theatre the other night, she was upset. “We were having a fight with the promoter, and I could not be angrier right now,’’ she told the crowd. Case was perturbed because the marquee outside the venue was blank. “You wouldn’t even know there was a show,’’ she fumed. The singer-songwriter quickly recovered and put on a stellar show. Afterward, she spent some time with Peter Wolf, on whose forthcoming CD she sings. Wolf arranged

Yup - she was pretty pissed off. One of the guys I went with knows Joey and we talked with him after the show but, as you noted, he didn't know anything. He said there was a band meeting to work something out but since he and John aren't part of the band they weren't included. I thought it was a great show. I never get tired of her voice. Did you take pictures?

I saw the Neko Case show in Boston last night. Between the opening band (John and Joey from Calexico) and Neko's set, the theater played Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. It got all the way to Poor Places before Neko came on.

I think it was truer in 1997, particularly live, and particularly live when, say, playing Color Me Impressed into I Wanna Be Sedated.

If you like New York City, city planning, or urban politics this is a pretty good read.

"Everything we do is based on The Replacements." - Jeff Tweedy

And when you are done, I recommend picking up a copy of Zeitoun. It is similar to WITW in that it is almost just good reporting. There is no sense of smugness or cleverness that is sometimes evident in Eggers' writing.

I actually liked this book, although it certainly was depressing. And I agree on the movie. When I first heard about it I thought "boy is that a bad idea." I suppose I have an easier time with a depressing book than a depressing movie.

Yes, this is disappointing. Maine is a funny and complicated place. I had read that they were having trouble with polling, partly because they felt that many people were reluctant to say how they really felt.

I was OK with Heartbreaking Work ... although I understand why some people don't like it. But I really recommend both What is the What and Zeitoun even if you dislike Eggers. They are both really great stories and Eggers' voice is pretty absent.

Lethem is complicated for me. When he is good (as with Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude) I love his work. For me it helps that both of those books are set within a block or two of where I used to live in Brooklyn. But he also has this whole science fiction side that I don't get. I read a really bad review of You Don’t Love Me Yet right when it came out and it soured me on the book (which I never read). I think I will read his new one but don't have it yet. He had a great story in the New Yorker about a year ago called “Lostronaut.” It was this really bleak and claustrophobic

It was Pedro Feliz who had the ball (because of the shift) and I think they both knew that Damon could outrun him. (But yes, it was a little weird that Feliz stopped after a couple of steps.)

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I was just lookign at the Violent Femmes' website and under the trivia section there is some pretty funny stuff. Violent Femmes trivia (scroll partway down). A flavor: * Kinks guitarist Dave Davies came to see the Femmes. They asked him to sit in on "Add It Up" telling him there were only two chords. Davies declined, saying, "That's one chord too many!" * The Femmes showed up at a gig in L.A. and were surprised to find American game show host Pat Sajak in the dressing room. When they asked him why he was there he replied, "I am a big fan of yours." * Another time VF went into their d

He's got a couple of Exile covers up on his excellent blog, Part Time Man of Rock. For those who like Janovitz and haven't seen his site, it's a must see. He now has about 50 songs (his Cover of the Week project) for free downloading, ranging from the Replacements to Tom Waits to the Grateful Dead. Recent highlights include Big Star's Thirteen (which he recorded with Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo), Elton John's Rocketman, and REM's Wendell Gee. He records them in his basment and some are a little rough around the edges. Most of the entries include a short write-up about the song, and he

I just finished the article on my subway ride in to work this morning. I agree that the connection to dogfighting was a stretch and probably unnecessary. However, some of what several of the doctors said about what a lineman's head goes through over the course of a career was pretty sobering.

Exile on Main Street. I saw a fun show last night. Bill Janovitz (from Buffalo Tom) wrote the 33 1/3 book on Exile and he put together a show where he did some readings from the book and then he and a band (mostly his other band, Crown Victoria) played songs. It was largely Exile songs but they threw in a few others too. He had a small horn section (sax and trumpet) which made it great.

Yeah! Oh Yeah! by the Magnetic Fields (with Stephin Merritt and Claudia Gonson singing the two parts)

Me too. I still love that album.

And that recommendation right there might be reason enough for me to go see it. (That and my 11 year old daughter who already saw it and liked it ...)

Me too. One of my earliest TV memories is watching him on What's My Line.

That's too bad. I am a big Russo fan and I've got that one on my bedside table.

Sadly, this is what I thought of when I read that sentence.

Y'know, despite the score I really don't think the Patriots ran up the score (and believe, me, there were times in 2007 when I think they did). Brady played for one drive in the second half and a rookie quarterback played the rest of the game. They mostly ran the ball in the 4th quarter. Should Brady have started taking a knee before halftime?

I can't believe that you and I would consider McAdam a celebrity but, yes, I saw him at the Worcester Neil Young/Wilco show.