kidsmoke

I'm home and happy to be, but my heart is wistful for the company of so many wonderful friends, both newly-met and old. See you all next year, same bat time, same bat festival grounds. You won't keep me away if I have to hitchhike cross country barefoot. I can't imagine a festival being more beautifully organized and beautifully realized. Everyone involved should be tremendously pleased with themselves. The love and joy and happiness were so thick you could open your mouth and chew on it. I almost choked on it a couple of times! Wilco, you have once again outdone yourselves! Encore, please

Dibs on borrowing Barb's bug spray first after her!

Aw Wendy, I was hoping you would be able to be at this! We shall do our best at reportage!

Thanks for the pictures, kcortez!

So glad I'm going to have a chance to meet so many marvelous people! Maggie! and Hazel, glad you are coming!!!

Anthony, does Broom relate to IJ in any way? I'm another who recently read IJ. What a crazy, convoluted, madcap book.

We will include you in our "Toast to the Missing", Lou! Sorry you can't be with us.

He looks pretty amazing! In other news, I just saw on Steve Wynn's newsletter that Peter Buck will be unavailable for the Baseball Project, but will be (very capably, I'm sure) filled in for by Mike Mills, who has played with the BP on other dates. Don't miss the Baseball Project. They are fantastic.

Can I just say....WOO HOO, Disneyland for Wilco fans!!!! Who is this band Yoga I'm hearing about?

I'm nowhere near the area, but WOW, that would be a terrific show! Good luck with it!

Well said, timewasajoke! I feel the same. I think this will not be the average "festival" at all...if it were, I wouldn't be coming. This will be a Wilco festival, and will be wonderful in the same sense a Wilco concert is distinct from the average concert. There's a certain spirit and sensibility that lifts it above the rest. I can't wait to be a part of this. I can't wait to meet everyone who is coming!

Thanks for sharing that, Jen!

We'll raise a toast to you, Sunshine!

I'll be there & looking forward to meeting & re-meeting all of you! Thanks for organizing this, Diane! kidsmoke (Donna) from Riverside, CA Party of 2...me & son Brennan

Hi all! I have decided to come to this shindig. See you there!

Reading these threads is the next best thing to being there...the happiness just pops right off the forum page! Congrats to the newly-engaged couple, who have such a fun, romantic story to share with their families and friends! Matt-the-Z, having heard your beautiful take on Everlasting Everything, I'm sure you were wonderful and added to the evening's enjoyment! More photos would be terrific!

Hahaha, that sounds lovely. Send away if you're so inclined. I'm also crazy about the Jay Clark song, "Anastasia" with its disparaging remark about Riverside, CA. Cracks me up every time.

I take it you meant mild-mannered? Yum, nice eye candy. I've been listening the past couple of days to your terrific mix from a year ago, the one that begins W/ Jon Rae Fletcher's "Big Talker". Great summertime listening!

Wait a minute, Canadian football players write songs? Those lyrics are wonderful! And I think I'd rather be drunk and bankrupt, if this is one-a them polls.

Well, there are all kinds of different ways to "know' someone, Crow. Anyway, we care and hope things get easier for ya. Haha, gotta love the Brucester.

I'm with jff. Hang in there, Crow, and I hope you can find the solution for this. It must be awful.

Great! I only have about 500 pages of Infinite Jest left to get through, give or take a 20-pg. footnote or two, and then I'll get a copy of Nobody's Fool!* * I don't mean to make Infinite Jest sound like a struggle, because it's magnificent, but it is very very long!

I haven't gotten to Nobody's Fool yet. It's on my reading list.

The thing with John Irving is, even with his lesser works, you know you're in for a good story with memorable characters. I like Richard Russo for the same reason.

Easily one of my favorite books. It just has such heart, and gets better & better as it goes, and as the characters develop.