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I've got a pretty good 2 week run coming up starting Monday. Sparks, Nick Cave & Guided by Voices. Hopefully I'll be up for them. BTW: Nick Cave is an expensive old guy now.

Diablo Mesa was pretty good. I'm a sucker for the Preston/Child books & have been for a long time.

Had some more communication with my friend. So far, Poland has taken in 800,000 refugees since the war started & it's rising rapidly. When the missile attack on the nuclear reactor started a lot of people started taking iodine tablets in case there's a fire on the order of Chernobyl. Things are bad & getting worse all over Europe, in particular the eastern & northern parts.

I have a friend in Poland & she says that some people there are packing up there stuff in case they have to flee. I told her she should get out & come here but daydream with no money.

RIP Mark. I'm in shock. the last time I saw him (saw Screaming Trees many times & some solo) he was opening for Nick Cave. He came out & did the father part in "Weeping Song" with Nick. I'm weeping now.

The show was great but I'm paying a high price today. After many years & shows from DBT I finally got to see them play "Angels & Fuselage" live. Such an amazing song. It & Southern Rock Opera were what got me into the band in the first place. That song never fails to give me chills. Unfortunately it has become sort of a theme song for me the last year. I'm going to keep going to shows as long as I can but it's getting very difficult & painful. I've got a bunch in the next few months but I'm definitely taking the health stuff into account now as far as buying tickets go. Hoping

Way over 2 years since I bought the tickets finally seeing Drive-by Truckers tonight. It will be a challenge as I had a rugged week with doctors & medicine being practiced on me. If all goes well, The War on Drugs to follow on Tuesday.

Appropriate!

We didn't get many in Seattle either. Maybe once or twice a year.

Episode 7 of the new Ozark season was intense. Now we have to wait for the final 7 episodes, ugh.

+1

TWOD in theory. The tour hasn't started yet & they seem a bit twitchy about it. They've already done away with the opening acts for the tour which is kind of cool. I've got tickets to see them in February. An Evening with is just fine with me. Fingers crossed the tour happens on time.

very dark movie & quite graphic. i saw it a real long time ago.

I saw the go fund me blew by it's goal quickly. I'm sure they can use the extra cash. Good on people who contributed!

For anyone in the US who is interested here is the link to order 4 free home test kits from the US government: https://www.covidtests.gov/

I spread the word on some other music sites I post on.

The SBS situation just keeps getting worse. Prayers for those involved.

The trouble with that is if one were filed it would almost certainly include the band. Those kind of suits tend to include anyone who was involved on any level. The concert business has always been rife with corruption & malfeasance. This is just the latest. It's too bad that Wilco has gotten caught up in something like this.

While the vast majority of the blame should go to the promoter, I don't think the band is entirely blameless. They didn't have to accept the gig. Also, they were advertising it pretty heavily on their mechanisms such as wilcoworld & via email etc. I probably shouldn't say anything as this stuff is way out of the zone I can afford even if I was healthy enough to travel. Would love to go but that's not the reality I have to live in these days. I have rocked & rolled plenty in my life haha.

They are playing Seattle, too. I'm thinking about it. Right now for budgetary reasons I'm reluctant to throw more money down for shows that may or may not happen. I'm glad I got to see Wilco & MMJ in October. I've got 3 shows (The Beths, DBT & TWOD) scheduled in February, not sure they're going to happen. Hopefully the omicron wave crests soon. A lot of shows here that would've easily sold out in the past aren't. I was shocked to see there were still tickets available for Guided by Voices as the tickets have been on sale for months.