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Beltmann

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  1. This is dead on. "Cry All Day" is major Wilco.
  2. Brian Fallon alludes to the Beatles in "Forget Me Not": And bring a football top and a play that you wrote / And an English song by a band that you love / Here comes the sun, little darling The joyous music video, it could be argued, also alludes to the Beatles playing at the Cavern Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jf4qiIs2AU
  3. Over the last few days I've moderated more than 60 spam threads/posts. Those users are then blocked. We're trying to stay on top of the epidemic!
  4. Not Wilco, but it still feels right to mention hearing: "Graveyard Shift" tonight in a local, independent restaurant. It was part of a playlist created by the owner.
  5. Another teacher here. For 22 years I have taught English, primarily honors American literature and film studies, at a large suburban high school north of Milwaukee. I've also sporadically written about cinema for nearly 30 years, including a five-year stretch when I produced a weekly print newspaper column.
  6. You already know how I'd feel about a Brewers championship!
  7. One of my favorites artists, too. My wife and I saw her in June and agreed that it was one of the best shows we've seen in recent memory. The last two records have been masterful.
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEYXnDNcrg “Never Look Away,” an Oscar nominee for foreign language film and cinematography, is an epic 188-minute drama about a German painter haunted by his childhood under first the Nazis and then the East German regime. It’s a sweeping, romantic movie about history, love, and sex, but mostly it’s about art and the creative impulse. It’s the kind of classic cinema that they say they don’t make anymore. I loved every minute and am thankful to have seen it on the big screen.
  9. Atticus is right: It's time to move to 2019!
  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iL1K_l8Jyo I was eager to see “High Flying Bird,” Steven Soderbergh’s sports drama released Friday on Netflix. Bursting with strong ideas about the legacy of slavery and late-stage capitalism--it concerns the chess moves made by an agent during an NBA lockout--and a magnetic lead performance by Andre Holland, the movie is always compelling. Still, there’s something artificial and forced about the project, a trait that also plagued “Unsane,” Soderbergh’s previous movie shot entirely on iPhones. What are you watching?
  11. Glad to see some love for "Stan & Ollie" here. In the ‘90s, AMC would show L&H shorts every Saturday morning, and I became obsessed to the point where I actually read a book about them front-to-back, which doesn’t sound too weird except that it wasn’t a biography but a cross-referenced encyclopedia. Whether silent or sound, I’ve seen every extant L&H movie, and most of ‘em I’ve seen multiple times. “Stan & Ollie" shares my deep affection for the duo and their comedic precision--it’s a big smile of a movie--but to my eyes it doesn't quite match their craft, wit, and invention. M
  12. My daughter was watching an old episode of "Friends" and in the background I noticed a Wilco sticker in the record shop window. (Season 4, Episode 15. That was about a year before "Summerteeth.")
  13. Heard "Via Chicago" in a Potbelly Sandwich Shop yesterday.
  14. Thanks, jw harding. I came here to post the same jambase link. Nice to see our very own bbop get some credit!
  15. I'm trying to be civil, but frankly I'm flabbergasted that anyone would put anything before A.M. The mind boggles.
  16. You are clearly a person with impeccable taste and could no doubt correctly rank the Wilco albums, too. I tip my cap in your general direction.
  17. I only vaguely know who you are, but based on that list, I'd say you were a highy messed up freak. Your feelings on this are objectively wrong at this point. Now that I've had ample time to really let Schmilco settle into its proper place on the timeline, I feel more confident in my current rankings: AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS WTA TWL SW WS
  18. I'm working on Chrome and everything seems fine. I suspect the issue is related to the server migration. Please keep trying and let us know if the problem persists.
  19. Sorry to hear this. Wow. Please continue to express your pain here, if it helps. I'm thinking about you and your wife.
  20. Thanks for the tip! Even though I own a digital copy on my computer (that was how it was originally sold), just last week I considered buying it again via Vudu so I'd also have a streaming version. That was $10, so I'm glad I waited for the Amazon deal.
  21. You're going to love "The Handmaid's Tale." I binged the entire series in late June and am ready for more. I also deeply enjoyed "Fallout"--that's a rare series that seems only to improve with each new installment--but even more breathtaking was "Sorry to Bother You." That's my favorite movie of the year so far!
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