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This is probably the only in-depth, man-on-the-street reporting I've seen from Georgia. Quite an interesting read, but maybe not so much if you're the type who wants your news boiled down into a few easy-to-digest paragraphs that either celebrate or castigate the U.S. and/or its administration. The world is a complicated place. http://michaeltotten.com/

Because JFK did.

Amazon has the entire Aja album available for download for 99 cents: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000V63CYO

Putin and Russia are the ones who are flexing their muscles. Last year they restarted their "we're going to fly our heavy bombers right up to your borders" flights, they've poisoned people in other countries and last week they were talking about basing their bombers in Cuba. The confrontations are not coming from the U.S., but rather a newly revived Russian bear coming out of hibernation after more than 15 years.

http://www.archive.org/download/watt1998-1...ore-t11_vbr.mp3

The U.S. still has several hundred Minuteman missiles in silos. One warheadless missile is periodically removed and launched from Vandenberg AFB to verify that they'll work if/when needed.

Unless the BTC pipeline comes into play.

http://wilcoworld.net/roadcase/passengerside.php

All of the songs are listed if you view the page's HTML source. Here they are: Airline to Heaven Another Man's Done Gone Ashes Of American Flags At Least That's What You Said At My Window Sad And Lonely Blank Blood of the Lamb Blue Eyed Soul Bob Dylan's Beard Box Full Of Letters California Stars Candy Floss Can't Stand It Cars Can't Escape Casino Queen Christ For President Company In My Back Dash 7 Dreamer in my dreams Either Way ELT Far, Far Away Forget the flowers Handshake Drugs Hate It Here Heavy Metal Drummer Hell Is Chrome Hesitating Beauty Hoodoo Voodoo Hotel Arizona How To Fight Lone

My co-worker was in Fairbanks last week to visit our ground stations in nearby North Pole and Poker Flat and sent me these photos of The Blue Loon where Wilco will be playing next week. I was trying to convince the powers-that-be to send me up there on a "business trip" but then my girlfriend reminded me that we're going to be in New Orleans that weekend.

From Watt's lengthy tour diary friday, may 30, 2008 - madrid, spain ok... to the present: my sister brings me to the lax airport wednesday at six bells. actually, this is my third time overseas this year even if it's the first w/the stooges cuz in february I did the brother's sisters daughter "japan tiny tour" and then starting on the ninth of this month I spent a week in tokyo to do sixty pieces of music for the spielgusher proj w/mister shimmy and ms yuko plus also a couple of gigs there. man, are they some beautiful people - I'm gonna bring nels to tokyo in december to make an album w

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/sha...nels_cline.html Interview: The late-blooming Nels Cline By Matthew Odam | Friday, July 11, 2008, 10:42 PM Although he has come to his greatest notoriety in recent years as the guitar player for Wilco, Nels Cline has been recording music for almost three decades and has been lauded by multiple magazines as

The show last night in Austin was pretty damned spectacular. Well attended, energetic and enthusiastic. I'm happy to see this band getting out on the road. Some videos have appeared on YouTube;

I found another old (Jan/Feb of 2005) video on one of the drives. It's The Nels Cline Singers (mostly Nels and Scott, I had a tough time fitting Devin into the frame) performing "Square King" at Club Tropical in Culver City, CA.

I'm in the process of sorting through 12(!) old hard drives in an effort to consolidate all my files on one or two terabyte drives. This afternoon I came across this video of Scarnella performing "Times Square" in 2000. It was craptastically encoded in an 8-year-old Windows Media format and the re-encode for YouTube didn't help, but it's still a great performance. One of these days I'll sort through my hundreds of unlabeled DV tapes and maybe I'll get lucky and find the original and be able to upload a nicer file.

The greatest generation, indeed.

Hornblower = Willie Waldman. And don't forget the best part of the whole thing: Norton Wisdom's painted interpretations of Banyan's music. http://www.nortonwisdom.com/Flash/galleryNew.html

Watt has posted 2 videos from the recently completed recording sessions for The Black Gang's new album:

Gilmour played on 2 songs at the big Prince's Trust performance of Quadrophenia in 1996. It was broadcast on TV, if I remember correctly. Roger's eye patch is courtesy of Gary Glitter's swinging microphone stand. Sat, 29 June 1996: London, Hyde Park Setlist I Am The Sea, The Real Me, Quadrophenia, Cut My Hair, The Punk And The Godfather, I'm One, The Dirty Jobs, Helpless Dancer, Is It In My Head, I've Had Enough, 5.15, Sea And Sand, Drowned, Bell Boy, Doctor Jimmy, The Rock, Love Reign O'er Me, 5.15 Lineup Roger Daltrey Vocals John Entwistle Vocals, Bass John Bundrick Piano, Keybo

The Stones couldn't come close to matching The Who as a live act during this period. And it's even more lopsided when considering the individual members. Both bands had Keiths who were very entertaining, but I'll take Entwistle over Wyman any day. Townshend is/was more interesting than any of the Stones. Daltrey and Jagger both bore me a little, but Roger wins for the best hair.

Today I tried capturing HD video from my DVR via firewire for the first time. It seems to have worked ok. Someone asked about the still photos of the band that aired between scenes, so I snapped the frames using VLC and uploaded them to Sendspace because they're too large (1920x1088 PNG files) to attach here. http://www.sendspace.com/file/a7xmqm

Here's a copy of VLC for Windows. It's hosted on my site, so I know the link works. http://hixsons.us/vlc.zip