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I get an erection just thinking about him.

I missed an Olivia Tremor Control show the last time they toured (outside of the recent Holiday Surprise thing where they played a few songs each night) in 2004 or whatever year that was. It still bothers me. I know I've missed many more, but I can't remember any outside of that one.

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Studio by hundreds of miles. EDIT: Ha - I forgot this question was, by virtue of where it was asked, about Wilco. I was answering in general. As far as Wilco, I would vote for a tie. Depends on my mood and the album. AGIB and SBS songs, in particular, are spectacular live even though I'm not entirely sold on the studio albums. But for the previous few records, I definitely prefer the studio versions.

I have read a lot of Hemingway and, strangely, the only book of his I can't get even halfway through is Farewell to Arms. So I would recommend trying others. Sun Also Rises is great, Old Man and the Sea is either boring or amazing, and a lot of his short stories can't be beat. A Clean Well-Lighted Place blew my mind when I was 16 or 17.

The more time passes and the more Larry David keeps making amazing stuff while the rest of the cast flounders around, I've come to the conclusion that Larry David was nearly everything that made Seinfeld great.

Weirdo.

I haven't listened to Wilco in months save a song or two, but the record I always come back to as a record is Summerteeth.

Four different versions, spaced two songs apart.

Me too. Granted, I haven't heard a finished version. But it seems like the trend of throwing a song that doesn't fit the tone of the album at all right in the middle will continue. Previous examples: HMD, I'm A Wheel, Hate it Here. But hey, they can do whatever they want.

While I agree with you for the most part, I think it depends on what Pynchon you are reading. The Crying of Lot 49, for example, seemed to have most of what I need in a book. But yeah, Vonnegut is millions of times more universal.

Is this real?

Are those Saturday/Sunday bands the headliners? If so, that is kind of weak to me. Because I do not much care about any of them. The only one I would want to see would be the National.

Really? Yikes.

I agree with this. Also, I had not seen this article to my knowledge. Interesting stuff.

That is a great idea I hadn't even thought of. I just read my first book on a Kindle and I was very impressed. My brother lives out of the country but wanted a Kindle so he shipped it to me to ship to him, but he told me to play with it for a bit. So I have been. I'm not going to buy one any time soon, but that screen blew me away. Kind of a slow refresh rate when pages are flipped, though.

I would eat a slice of that.

Exciting. It would have been more exciting if that douche from Magnet had mentioned that we all like Feist in his article, but still exciting.

Just got Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao at the library, along with Martha Stewart's Cooking School.

Between the Buttons is my favorite by a wide margin, but I guess I have to vote for either Let it Bleed or Beggar's Banquet.

I have a mac and have never even given using Safari a thought. I used it once, to download Firefox the day I got my computer.

I post from the shower.

In an entirely different way, I'm deathly afraid of both Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow. I'm not very afraid of not being able to get through anything, but as a person that likes to write, I find it very hard and almost bittersweet to be writing something I think is decent by day and reading something like Joyce by night. It's a good ego check, but it more often than not crushes my creative zeal. The last book to really knock me down a peg or two was Everything is Illuminated just because that bastard was like 24 when he was writing it. I'm planning on giving Infinite Jest a go sometime t