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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check what's at my local theaters. 

Like I commented over on fb, I am so sick of my life being fouled by evangelicals and skinheads. Like SCOTUS.

 

Well, not all of SCOTUS I guess. But too much of it.

I'm just in sick disbelief at today's leak. Women are more than incubators for men's use.

I'm not sure what we do about this, but inaction and watching from the sidelines aren't options. I won't allow my granddaughter (or my grandson for that matter) to grow up in a world where this crap is the law of the land. We adults have GOT to put an end to this and protect her generation, as well as protecting every woman now alive. Men, please speak up. Women, keep resisting with all you've got.

And meanwhile, I've written a haiku.

 

So treasonably

Repugs back the lies

Unreasonably.

 

 

OK, I'll keep my day job.

Somebody recommend a currently-in-theaters movie?

Pretty much anything but porn will be considered. I'm bored & need out. What should I spend (too much) money on? 

I hate how this war has dragged on and on, and all that has been accomplished is a lot of ruined cities and villages and lives. The latest expectations are apparently that Russia will now intensify the terrorism in the Donbas region in hopes of having some "victory" to boast about on Victory Day, May 9th, when they traditionally hold military marches in Red Square.

Great. More dead bodies coming right up, both Ukrainian and Russian.   

The title song is hauntingly gorgeous. Some of Jeff's prettiest vocals ever and I love John & Pat's backing vocals. Maybe Mikael's too? That swell of voices in the chorus had me going back to listen over and over, mentally teasing the voices and instruments apart. 

Judging by the signatures, that must date to 2002. I have those same 4 on mine. I loved that incarnation of the band!

Get that framed and hung up!

47 minutes ago, lizish said:

Oh no!

 

Let's do a small memorial at Soild Sound. Moment of silence and toast. 

Yes! Absolutely!

This is such a hard post because I'm still in disbelief, but this wouldn't be Via Chicago if we weren't all heartbroken over the death today of our beloved longtime member, Dave Mirabella. So Dave, this is for you. Via Chicago salutes the stellar human you were. Nobody ever met you who didn't love you.

 

Rest in peace, never forgotten by any of us. Deepest sympathies to your son and all who loved you.

I really love this one! I'm so proud of Kevin's growth, and of Wilco's support of him through his Solid Sound appearance back in 2017! I've grown to love many of the bands and individuals I've seen at Solid Sound, and Kevin is right up there with those I love best. He continues to prove that Wilco had excellent taste in supporting him!

I can't wait to hear this full album!

Dave was dear to me. I'll leave it at that because I still can't even wrap my head around the loss of one of the best people I've ever known. Rest in peace, Dave. I'll be playing your songs up loud in celebration of your life.

9 minutes ago, Blackberry Rust said:

Marvellous artwork! Excited!

 

I love that cover too! 

4 hours ago, Blackberry Rust said:

 

I could listen to it here in Australia.

 

That's some good stuff and a genuine stylistic surprise! So much twang going on..I immediately had Merle Haggard's "Workingman's Blues" come to mind. 

 

Based on the little tidbits via Starship Casual and Glenn's Instagram, I suspect we're in for something fairly eclectic, which is really, really exciting.

This jaunty beauty may be Jeff's funniest song ever! I can already imagine it live.

And it tells a story I think every pandemic couple can understand!

14 hours ago, theashtraysays said:

It was recorded. 
 

on the first night, I admit I was slightly disappointed in it being a recording. Especially since it was “live” (looped) when they did it at solid sound. 

But on the second and third night, I definitely think that the band all standing there solemnly with that gorgeous lighting and the “pristine” recorded version was indeed the perfect ending for the show. It was quite breathtaking really. 

It really, really was. I was almost teary-eyed, it was that sublime.

I was going to watch "casually" as I had a bunch of paperwork to get done. Not a chance. I sat glued to my computer chair, mentally inside the Auditorium Theatre with that rapturous audience, for the entire show, paperwork untouched. Enthralling. Swept me right back to seeing them for the very first time in March, 2002. the songs sounded fresh and as magical as when they were new. 

So in moments overwhelmed by my emotions, I have a tendency to write bad poetry without metre or rhyme ( show of hands?)

So I give you this doggerel that sprung from me after tonight's passionate livestream. 

I love that 20 years on, I'm still as besotted as ever. Love you, Wilco. Long may you run. 💗

 

"I came in

A little late.

Technology, first world problems

Frustrated

But then the dark and the violins 

And the calm

And I started to soften. Relax.

 

Jeff snapping on the radio

Is glued to my brain,

A perfect moment in time

 

And then theband emerged 

Like a daffodil in spring

And played songs.

 

I don't remember

A lot of the rest

But it was luminous

I thought I'd get

Some paperwork done,

While I listened.

That didn't happen.

 

This is a thank you to

My favorite band,

For lifting me right out of myself. 

Into a space with 

A thousand others,

In love with being alive,

And together for now."

One of my most treasured possessions for the past two decades. 

 

Thanks always, my Wilcos! Snoozy as hell even 20 years later...I get sleepy just glancing at it! *yawn* 

1 hour ago, calvino said:

Me too - (via nugs, though)

Same! Can't wait. 

So here we are, twenty years on from this gorgeous, enthralling, transcendent album. I remember it burning in my brain for weeks, months, like candle that couldn't be put out...it was always still a live ember back there, whatever I was doing. The songs felt like breathing. They mattered, they had to be sung. They had to be sung along to. They had to be surrounding us, live. Like breathing; it felt essential. It was.

 

Tell me about how YHF affected you. Whether you heard it new, or years later. Tell me a story or a memory. 

 

I remember the discussion on this board over the songs. How some members didn't think HMD fit, because it was light compared to the deeper songs. Frivolous almost, on such a powerful album. I didn't care. I loved HMD for exactly itself. Still do.

 

I remember my daughter, now grown, in kindergarten then, and I was driving her home from kindergarten one afternoon, YHF on the car stereo. I realized as I drove that she had learned the lyrics enough that she was happily singing along to Jesus Etc. so I tuned in. I still hear the lyrics like this, with imagery to match, every time I hear the song. And you know what, it just adds a whole 'nother depth to it. From a child's mind:

 

"Tall buildings shake

Horses escape

Singing sad sad songs..."

 

I'll always have at least a moment in my head of seeing wild-eyed horses bolting out of a smoking, flaming medieval-looking tower.

Now, maybe, you will too.

 

Now tell me how YHF affected you, how it intersected with the life you had at the time. 

 

PS in my version, the horses were fine.

On 4/19/2022 at 5:03 PM, bcdoc said:

Anyone else get their cereal and beer? 

 

Do you have to be in Chicago to buy these? Damn.  Chicago friends, if the spirit moves you, I'd love some beer and cereal & will happily reimburse all costs. But don't 47 of you send.

7 minutes ago, Plumplechook said:

Damon is super smart. Just been listening to an episode of the Odd Lots podcast where he really clarifies why and how  musicians get screwed over by the streaming services.

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-real-reason-so-many-musicians-are-frustrated-by-spotify/id1056200096?i=1000555923014

 

That was painful to read, on the day a nutcase FL judge decided mask mandates on planes aren't necessary.  We are SO not out of the woods yet.

Well if that performance didn't stir your bones, don't even claim to be a Wilco fan. Who's with me?

 

Sooooo beautiful, so moving. Damn.

What a generous offer! I can't make it but I hope somebody else gets to enjoy those! 

... and happy Easter or whatever Spring celebration you honor, as we glory in the Earth renewing itself.

Windows open again, we all reconnect a little...music sounds energizing & happy...

I hope Spring is giving all of you a hopeful spirit. We are about to officially celebrate the 20th anniversary of YHF. That album moved us all, powerfully. Let's look at where we are now. Who we are, now. And let's be hopeful and determined right now in the world & in our everyday lives.

 

Happy Pink Moon!

This beauty arrived today. I love the astronaut image. Pretty cool; thanks Jeff!  Very shiny!

 

 

*PSA don't put these metallic finish cups in a microwave! It won't end well.