Kim Bodnia

Reason why I hate this person, just a few months ago I revered him. REM interview: 'There's a good chance we'll never play together again' http://www.guardian....e?newsfeed=true

I didn't know he was born in that area. (That probably explains the hockey team there ) Just joking, in response to the question, thankfully I'm not having the worst week (not the best either) but with the charges I put on the credit card I'm going to feel differently one month from now.

George with an "S", that is "Georges"

Winterbloom: traditions rearranged Antje Duvekot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2jN3d2zzU

I'm so enjoying this song tonight that I was about to create the same thread... Brilliant song from beginning to end, one of Wilco's best, puts you in a positive mood.

These are the artists whose 2011 record I bought: 1. R.E.M. 2. Radiohead 3. Decemberists, 4. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, 5. Head and the Heart, 6. Blind Pilot, 7. Wilco 8. Wilderness of Manitoba, 9. Dan Mangan, 10. Rural Alberta Advantage 11. Low Anthem 12. Sarabeth Tucek Of all these, I am satisfied with purchases #8, #9, and #10. I am moderately satisfied with purchases #3, #4, #5, #7, #11 and #12. I am Not satisfied with purchases #1, #2, #6. Of all twelve, the 2011 record that I most liked is #8, Wilderness of Manitoba.

NPR is streaming this: (check the last three songs on disc 2, the reason why anyone who already owns the discography would buy this. I hope you find them appealing, I personally haven't. Those 3 songs were the last recorded by R.E.M. before they announced the disbandment). http://www.npr.org/2...rbage-1982-2011

"Tinariwen performs at Loft in Dallas, but hardly anyone shows up" http://www.star-tele...g#ixzz1czMBoKNB

At times this sounds like R.E.M., there's Monster-like and Reckoning-like sounds. Roger McGuinn plays 12-string guitar and contributes vocals.

The word they're using is "batiburrillo" I am not familiar with it, nor I had heard of it before. (They use a different Spanish in the peninsula). According to the Spanish Royal Academy, a "batiburrillo" is: "a mix of unrelated things that have no relation to each other". (The French would say "un mélange"). Stirrat is comparing the albums Sky Blue Sky to Wilco, saying that while the first had a clearly defined theme that ran through the album, the second (Wilco) was a "batiburrillo".

were those mint condition?

I would have wanted them to tour behind Collapse into Now. They didn't want to. I'm angry because they didn't tour, they denied me the chance to see them in concert. That's what a band does, they put records out to market, they play live shows (look at Wilco touring Europe today). Of course they kept mentioning various reasons why they didn't tour but the fact remains they didn't tour. And I'm not talking of a grandiose tour, it could have been only a few dates here and there, I would have travelled just to see them. The three of them were rarely seen together during the year. They appeare

(Please note that this is about "the non-English press" which is not the same as "the foreign press"). Having said this, I turn my attention, once again, to Spain. Having just disembarked in the peninsula, there is no shortage of Wilco features in today's press. I chose a brief review that appeared in El Pais, the country's largest newspaper. It is titled: "Wilco: the price of perfection" and was written by journalist Diego A. Manrique. A partial and rough translation, link to article (in Spanish) below. http://www.elpais.co...elpepucul_7/Tes

I agree with your comment. When I was watching that BBC interview yesterday, and when Michael Stipe said "it's over", I was angry, angry at these people because, as you have said, who knows what they'd be saying five years from now. I was angry the day they split, they have disappointed me for the last time. And they just keep telling lies and going on with this masquerade, I used to believe they were the only authentic and honest band.

The last U2 I bought was All that you can't leave behind. "Elevation" and "Beautiful day" are very uplifting songs, the earth shakes and trembles everytime U2 plays them. I haven't cared much for them after that record. However, they enjoy more media exposure than R.E.M. Bono is often in the news, whether it is something about politics, fashion, dark glasses, Africa, George Bush... Michael Stipe isn't that omnipresent. Plus, I don't even think they're comparable (they might have been comparable in the early nineties when they were running neck and neck). R.E.M. is more mystical, philosophi

Where is Jim Barksdale right now?

Still finding hard to get onto other music after R.E.M.'s disappearance. There's a few good songs here and there by other bands, but nothing to make me revisit (buy) an entire discography, nor I personally identify with other musicians.

D. Boon toured with R.E.M. in the eighties.

It's a German movie, part travelogue, part comedy. Honestly I don't remember the plot, it's been years since I watched it, all I know and I can assure is that it's very funny. In fact, I recently bought the DVD so that I could re-watch it. I just haven't set aside time to see it, when that happens I may post here with more comments.

Chris Shaw, who worked with Wilco as an audio engineer in 2004's A Ghost is Born is the producer of Nada Surf's upcoming album. According to Tape Op magazine, Chris Shaw has a 20 year experience in the music business as producer, mixer and engineer. "He has worked on five of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." The magazine ran an interview with Mr. Shaw in its #83 edition of May / June 2011. (See: http://www.tapeop.co.../83/chris-shaw/)

In the days he was doing these movies, the nineties, I tended to see him as an old man doing very boring adult comedy, that's why I didn't see any of his movies. Groundhog Day is probably the only Bill Murray movie I've seen and I like (I remember very little of Ghostbusters, I have blocked most of my teenhood memories apparently). Actors whose career I've followed are for example Moritz Bleibtreu, who is roughly my age and in the nineties did some very good comedies like Run Lola Run and In July. Right now I am catching up with Bill Murray's age (Bill Murray of the nineties) so maybe I'