Beltmann

For me, at least, the speed of accumulation definitely works against the dynamic of "living with the album" for a while. If something isn't initially gripping, it's tempting--and easy--to set it aside for something fresher. Sometimes that's no great loss, but sometimes that sacrifices an album that, given time, might have mattered to us. My playlist is cluttered with albums that I feel I've wrongfully neglected. But there isn't truly time for them all, is there?

In rough order of preference: The Broken West Wilco Of Montreal Arcade Fire Rickie Lee Jones Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Phonograph Lilly Allen Andrew Bird The Besnard Lakes Dr. Dog Pop Levi Son Volt Voxtrot Patty Griffin David Vandervelde Apples In Stereo Explosions In the Sky Lucinda Williams Sloan Menomena Field Music Deerhoof

I wasn't too keen on Sherman's March when I first saw it, but I've since come around on Ross McElwee. In particular, I really liked Bright Leaves, a scruffy documentary that ambles through the North Carolina of McElwee's youth, searching for loose links between his family's tobacco farming past, current Southern geopolitics, contemporary smoking awareness, an old Gary Cooper melodrama that may or may not have been based on the life of his great-grandfather (a tobacco baron and inventor of the Bull Durham cigarette), and his own relationship to his son. That probably sounds like a rambling aff

Wow. Thanks! Do we know from which show/date this is taken?

I don't have much time for movies right now, but these ten are at the top of my queue: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (De Sica, 1964) The U.S. vs. John Lennon (Leaf, 2006) The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer (parts 1 & 2) Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959) Le Samourai (Melville, 1967) Boudu Saved From Drowning (Renoir, 1932) Machuca (Wood, 2005) Platform (Jia, 2000) Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001) Dolls (Kitano, 2002)

Rickie Lee Jones - Sermon on Exposition Boulevard

No kidding...

I saw it, too. In the theater. I saw Teen Wolf Too, too, also in the theater. Not my best days. Perhaps now is a good time to confess that I own the Teen Wolf double feature DVD--with both the Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman movies!

From IMDb: Huh. Makes me think of:

Excellent! Thanks!

Tonight Sky Blue Sky was playing in the house, and when the first notes of a certain track began, my two-year-old daughter brightened and shouted, "Oooh! Shake It Off!!!" If the ensuing crazy-ass dancing is any measure, she likes it.

We watched that last night... what a piece of crap.

Happy birthday, WMS! Miss seeing you around.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Anodyne!

I've only listened through once, but my initial reaction mirrors the general attitude expressed in this thread: It's good, but lacks the punch of the EPs. Still, I expect that it will grow on me over time. I didn't immediately respond to the EPs, either.

I can't believe I never noticed that before.

At this point I'd describe both "You Are My Face" and "Hate It Here" as essential Wilco, and the rest of the album seems to improve via association. I like most of the subdued tracks--especially "Please Be Patient With Me"--and "Side With the Seeds" is definitely growing on me, but I'm still not sold on a few, particularly "Leave Me (Like You Found Me)," "On and On and On," and "Impossible Germany." I seem to be in the minority about "Germany" but it makes me cringe--and it's mostly a reaction to Nels' work. I'd like it much more if his part sounded less like elevator crooning and more like

Yeah, Looking for Richard. It's less about that specific play than about the process of adapting a classic play, which is what was fun about it. And Scarface is pretty damn near unwatchable. I loathe that movie.

I think I may steal this description, if you don't mind.

Make sure you've got enough lawn to mow and shirts to fold, and you'll be okay.

Not a review, exactly, but in the last issue of Rolling Stone Austin Scaggs called SBS a "mellow masterwork."

I'm with you. I've always felt that Part III, while not at the level of the first two, was unfairly knocked.

Happy birthday, Dreamin' Judy! I think maybe I should mention before you make any faux pas here, that we have a tradition in this family, that we don't kill other people.