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Jeff's dad is ailing. Susan has posted on facebook asking for all the love, good wishes, and prayers you can spare. So please turn on those awesome Via Chicago vibe machines and let's get some healing waves flooding toward the midwest! Love to Bob and the entire Tweedy clan from all of us here!

Have a listen! http://www.npr.org/2017/07/23/538524582/one-giant-leap-for-music-nasas-sonic-history-inspires-this-duo

I'm more optimistic than some. I just believe this evil will eventually collapse under its own weight. I also predict that tomorrow (Friday July 21st) is going to be a humdinger. I expect some exciting political moves tomorrow.

I'll bet you'll be very happy, Calvino.

Life sure is good at teaching us humility. I hope McCain will beat his cancer, and maybe come out the other side with a renewed appreciation for our need to support each other through health crises. Basic health care needs to be seen as a human right...we owe that much to each other as a united species. Are we as advanced as we claim? We need to care for every one of us. I sound like an aging hippie but really, humans need to get their shit together.

I also find myself in agreement with Bannon! But saying Paul is a limp-dicked motherfucker is a bit like saying water is wet or gravity exists. Bannon can't co-opt reality just because he acknowledges a bit of it.

There was a delicious meme that I wish I could find...made from that photo of evangelicals touching and praying over Trump recently. The meme made it appear that they were pushing him into a jail cell. Can't happen soon enough for me! Whatever Putin has on Trump, it is so calamitous that Trump can't even discuss it in the presence of his most trusted cronies. The best thing about secrets is, they almost always come out sooner or later.

Sometimes I really wish we had a "like" button. Clearly I am spending too much time on the facebook. And Isbell?

Tell me about this. I loved this book! I wish I were free to go hear him speak about this in L.A. tonight...one of the last dates of his now-cancelled book tour. Much love and support to the man as he works through his grief and depression following his mother's passing. I'm told the book is powerful!

Oddly enough, I WAS expecting a low-key, comfortable-but-not-earthshaking revisit of several old friends (songs) and thus was completely blown away when I finally put it on late one night and got to have the experience of a living room show for only me, in my own living room. From Via Chicago on, I was captivated by the intimacy and sheer beauty of these melodies and these words. It felt all new to me. It's a powerful album that will bring you back to when you first fell inside these songs. Listen without distractions. This is Jeff distilled to his essence.

You have the soul of a writer, Vince. Captured it perfectly.

Bringing back sweet memories!

Beautiful shots, Rob!

I like it!

What I've done is go to an online site (I used imgur.com) to upload my photo, then use their resizing feature to size it down to about 1/3rd or 1/4th original size. Then you'll be able to post it. If you have any further trouble getting it to post, shoot me a pm and I'll walk you through whatever is hanging it up.

I'll start us off with two Tweedys.

Don't you just wish sometimes you could clone yourself, split off to all you don't want to miss, and meet up later and merge together? Someday science will work this out for us.

Tell me about Kevin's pop-up! I was at the one with Jeff, Chris Corsano, and Darin Gray that was earlier. By the time I got through Courtyard D (which was packed so traffic was at a crawl) and across the canal and up to the pink cactus area, I could see him standing outside. I came up and said, "I just missed your pop-up, didn't I?" Yup. Also, a question about Bennington...I've only driven through, two years ago after Solid Sound, and we didn't have time to stop. But I remember the huge dramatic spire there...is that the battle monument? I think it must be. How cool that you got to see Frost

I'm always curious to hear the impressions of people attending their first Solid Sound, because I think it is SO very different from the usual festival, and I suppose because I want to relive/revisit that brilliant sense of discovery. So, what did you think of "our" little festival??? Favorite bits?

I have almost had enough sleep now to begin unpacking. Hi ladyC!

That's a tough one to answer, both because there were several contenders, but also because it is impossible for one person to see everything. If they were to replay the whole thing, I might have seen an entirely different (and probably equally satisfying) Solid Sound 5. For my money, Kevin Morby was one of the real stand-outs. He turned in a magnificent set, ending with a blistering one-two punch of "Dorothy" and "The Ballad of Arlo Jones". My face is still a little melted.

So good to be back home, but suffering the withdrawal blues as usual. What a weekend. What a blast. Best one yet!!!! See you all in 2 years!

Hey Solid Sounders, if you got one of the "We're all in this together, except Trump, he's a dick" t-shirts, this is your reminder that tomorrow (Saturday) is the day to wear it. Please come for the group photo at 10:30 am. We will be posing with the big orange WILCO letters which face Joe's field. Let's try to meet (a bit early please) on the bridge over the canal, the one that takes you to Joe's field from courtyard D. Be there or be square.

I hadn't planned a VC meeting table this year, but maybe we can meet and grab a table on the deck above Courtyard C.