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I did not know that! Mind equally blown!

Good to know you're on it, Paul!

He played 2 or 3 songs last night! How heartwarming!

Ron quit working on WilcoBase quite awhile back, but I had heard that there was another fan planning to take it over and update it. That doesn't seem to have happened. I'll see what I can find out...if I learn anything, I'll post it here.

Time for a fresh new thread. So, who has seen Coco? I'm hearing raves from everyone I know who's seen it.

Time to close this thread of 2017, with its 17 pages, and start up a new one for 2018!

It was time for an updated thread. So, did you all get some books as gifts over the holidays? Or maybe saw fit to gift yourself with a book you were worried no one would give you? Books are so necessary to one's overall wellbeing that they ought to qualify as a medical expense.Tax deductable. I got one book I had been wishing for. It's about Mass MoCA. The title is something like "From Mill to Museum" but I don't have it in reach. Fascinating book, fascinating photos! Disorienting, for those who've been to Solid Sound, because (obviously) things have changed since the grounds were a mill,

I'll look forward to that then! A lot of my favorite books take awhile to draw you in, but then are so wonderful and hard to finish. I'm currently reading "A Soldier of the Great War" by Mark Helprin...it is beautiful, captivating writing from the first, but it took me awhile to get all the way inside the story. I'm hooked now, though! And looking at how old this thread is, it's time for an updated one, so I'm closing the old and opening the new.

How are you east coasters doing with the bomb cyclone? Everybody have milk and bread? And electricity and heat? Take care and check in with us. Tell us how it is where you are. I'm in southern CA in the most mellow of winters, and I can't even imagine that east coast cold! Elsewhere too, I know...Chicago like a deep freeze, snow in the south! Be careful out there.

A fresh new thread for our fresh new apocalypse (or whatever comes next) at the suggestion of ih8music! Let's hope that at year's end, this thread will tell a happier story than last year's. Buckle up, everybody, it's bound to be a wild ride!

You're absolutely right!

Sounds fascinating! How is this? I loved "Rules of Civility". This is such a strange book, structurally. It took me a bit to really get into it, but then I loved it. What an original mind Saunders is!

Jeff might but Largo doesn't. We're all hoping for a roadcase because it was a wonderful set!

YES PLEASE

That version of ashes was excellent. Tyler, this is you, right? I never made the connection that you were a VC member! Nice to meet you and Brigit! What a show. Nice review, too. Tell us your banter memories! Jeff was pretty funny last night.

Wow. This was one of those truly magical nights, just warm and funny and brilliant. Jeff at his most Jeff, with a great audience. Perfect. Jeff played my request, Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End". It was gorgeous. That line, "But how can it recognize you, if you don't step out into the light, the light..." was as perfect a bit of song as I've ever heard. Bbop will probably have a good review soon. I just wanted to swoon over the evening a bit.

Jeff at Largo. A sweet, sweet end to a pretty lousy year!

Good answer! Good answer! Now we just need someone to sing it for us. We'll need a recording.

Three more days of Christmas....we need a big finish! On the 10th day of Christmas, my Wilcos gave to me: Ten (or more!) Solid Sound Festivals Nine turntables sizzling Eight Late Greats Seven screams of nothing Six musicians playing Five Bull Black Novas Four dreamers dreaming Three God shaped holes Two intertwined IG guitars And a blinking macrame owl onstage

That would make a helluva nice Christmas gift to wake up to!

And what happened on the 3rd day? Help me out here, VC!

Some of you are going to have really weird Christmases!

...my Wilcos gave to me A blinking macramed owl onstage Then what happened?

I don't believe a word of it.

You last 3 all get bonus points for making me laugh. Passenger Sid, you are going to have to make a hard choice! At least you're not vying for Doug's wife or fif's drugs. Mountainbike, I know that album gets slagged a bit, but there are some real gems on it! Country Disappeared really resonates right now, doesn't it?