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More on the genesis of the Dawned on Me video, and the spinach tie-in. Weird but fun.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/when-popeye-met-wilco/2012/01/26/gIQAcaQGVQ_blog.html#pagebreak?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

Uh... that link doesn't work for me. Anybody else hit a dead end or do I just need to take my laptop out of the bathtub?

Hmm.... maybe this URL will work?

http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2008_07_22.02.phtml (the URL shouldn't have a period at the end)

If not, just google Wilco and July 3, 2000 and that should yield the jambands.com review.

Oh, and I heard from the author that he is working on a review of Wilco(The Album) which should appear on jambands.com right around the album release date...

I just read a post that referenced a Wilco show in Camden, Maine back in 2000 which surprised me as it is a teeny town and a tiny venue, (and near my hometown) so I Googled it (of course) and found a concert review posted last year that really captures the chemistry of the band with the Bennett/Croomer/Bach line-up and also the on- and off-stage persona of pre-rehab Jeff Tweedy.

The writing is excellent; Brian Robbins, if you're on here, well done.

You can find it here http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2008_07_22.02.phtml. Enjoy.

1.Cars Can't Escape (have never heard live!)

2.Side with the Seeds

3.Handshake Drugs

Regarding this quote below about the AOAF DVD, if any of you Wilco fans in the greater Chicagoland area want to learn more about what you can do on a local level to support your Main Street business districts and neighborhood retailers, check out the National Main Streets Conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago on Sunday, March. 1. There is a series of four free trainings starting at 8:30 and lasting until 6 pm. This conference is run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation which has a very effective approach for saving downtowns from sprawl and suburbs. I've gone to this conference the last few years and they're a lot of fun! (disclaimer: I'm an employee of the Trust--and a huge Wilco fan).

"As much a concert film as it is a film about the demise of the America we used to know, one of community stores, small town markets and walking in neighborhoods. Sprawl and box stores have invaded small town America, and this country will never be the same."

So hard to choose:

"I would like to salute

The ashes of American flags

And all the fallen leaves

Filling up shopping bags"

"And the gray fountain spray of the great Milky Way

Would never let him

Die alone"

"Tires type black

Where the blacktop cracks

Weeds spark through

Dark green enough to be blue"

....and these are just the ones I can think of immediately.

Thanks to all who've posted. I've smiled at each one and that has made my morning.