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They recently installed freeway on-ramp traffic lights near my house. One car per green light. The light turns red before most people can hit the gas pedal and get their car in motion. It was frustrating, but still kind of humorous, to watch people react to the one second green light the first few days.

Let me guess...the 8 second green light stays red for 3+ minutes. I get to experience a few of those myself.

Totally. Not to mention how annoying a hyper lynx can be.

Really? I remember Sinead was originally on the bill, but I didn't know Pavement was the substitute act. That's a great trade. Sinead would have been terrible in that setting. I've seen her before, and she was good, but Lollapalooza isn't the place for her. We also got Mike Watt w/ Nels Cline on the side stage that year.

I'm with you. I wonder how difficult it'd be to customize a regular Tele into a 12 string.

They did a segment on this on NPR this morning, but other than that I hadn't heard much about it. Sounds horrific. I hope the waters are beginning to recede, or will be very soon.

Never. I've never written a song by myself, but I've co-written several. That'd be a pretty big honor.

Did you see the Atlanta Lollapalooza? I was there, and unless my memory is playing tricks, Pavement played a second unannounced set on the side stage that day.

Here's the trailer for "Stones in Exile", a documentary about the making of the album.

I've never done the no tv thing, but I try to stick to only the shows I know I like and avoid vegging out or channel surfing in front of the tv. There's a guilty pleasure type of show I usually watch with my wife on Tuesday nights, but in recent weeks I've been getting together with some old bandmates on Tuesdays to make up some new songs. It's a much better feeling to have spent a couple hours trying to create something, rather than speding that time watching a tv program. Once you miss a few episodes of a show and get a verbal recap, you realize how repetitive and unnecessarily long mo

Any of the first 10 or 12 NRBQ albums.

I just got into him, too. I first heard him on the Little Willies cd. There are several really good Jim Campilongo videos on Youtube where he demonstrates some of his playing techniques/equipment. Here's one:

Crocs are suposedly a good choice of footwear for sufferers of Plantar Fasciitis.

Perhaps the BO from all the obese people (which is almost everyone around here) was masking the BO from all the skinny people.

I don't know. I've never been stuck behind a skinny person on an escalator.

I'm usually in a hurry to get off the escalator because that gives me more time to stop and smell actual roses rather than the B.O. of the obese person in front of me on the escalator.

The place he played in Athens was similar in size to the Five Spot. I think he sold out two nights in Athens. I think Eyedrum would be a good venue for the type of music Bill Frisell does. Nels might be a little too loud to play there, though. Nels has always played rock venues when he comes to town.

True. Poor choice of words on my part. I'm not a natural born southerner (I was born near Boston), so the southern hospitality thing has always felt counter-productive and a little creepy to me.

I won't be seeing them until September, but from the videos I've seen it looks like they're a MUCH better rehearsed, tighter group than they were when I saw them in the '90s. An interview I read a while back said that Malkmus insisted that, unlike previous tours, everyone had to practice before this one.

I take this to mean it was sold out? I'm glad it sold out, but I'm kind of surprised since it was not advertised very well. Sorry you couldn't get in.

Yes. It might be an Atlanta thing. "Southern Hospitality," in practical reality, has become nothing more than a free pass to be selfish and walk all over people, because nobody would DARE say anything. I rarely see escalator infractions when I travel to other cities, and I NEVER see them in DC or anywhere outside the USA.