Hodie

I just started watching this last night. The narration makes a somewhat overwrought case for what an influential and ground-breaking show this was. That didn't feel right to me, because I clearly remember the show being on the air (I was 11 in 1969), and I mostly thought of it as a show for old folks that I watched because it had great non-old-folks musicians on from time to time.

In retrospect, though, it really DOES seem amazingly important that he brought together folks from so many different genres.

I muchly enjoyed the gorgous duet with a very young Bob Dylan -- they both had this strong humility about them, like they were just conduits for, and in service to, the song.

Hmmm, talk aboutcher basic overwroughtness...anyway, if you're a fan of singer-songwriter type songs, you'll probably like this documentary. A lot.

what capacity is it in wellington?.

I looked it up, not because I can go, but because I really really want to: 750

And it looks to be a club set up rather than a seated theater. I'm salivating with envy.

I'm pretty sure that in the Official Guide to Funny Lines, it says that "eyeglasses" is a much funnier word than "glasses," so I wholly approve of its use.

Ocularia is so hilarious as to get an entire chapter in the OGFL, though. Real word or nae.

Regarding the topic at hand, though: You're very calm about this! I'm afraid that if anyone, human or beast, ate my spexxx, I would become hysterical. And going to Lenscrafters would involve a lot of walking into walls.

My sister had never ever been a dog person until she got a golden retriever from a rescue group, and she's been deeply in love with that dog ever since.

I sure wish I had an electronic version of the dog as flower-creature at my sister's commitment ceremony. He was beyond gorgeous.

I watched The Proposition late last night, and it was moody and menacing and wonderful. It was extremely very violent and gory, too, but I'm not holding that against it. Best "western" I ever saw.

It seems unlikely that entire songs would be written that way, but I'd heard of it being used as an exercise to get individual lines to jump off from. I recall "beware the quiet front yard" being mentioned in an early article as one that was generated that way.

IATTBYH seems pretty much the least likely to be written in a random way, given the structure of creating so many phrases made of words starting with the same letter (american aquariam assasin avenue and big-city blinking and bible black and disposable dixie-cup drinker). I read something, I think in Wilco Book, that pointed that out.

Yow, this must be heartbreakingly disappointing for you all. I'll keep my fingers crossed on your behalf that another show gets sorted out.

And I hope everything's fine with the Wilcos...

poster

 

I'm a little bit in love with that poster.

 

Finally managed to get hold of a (low quality) .avi-file. One of the best movies I've seen this year though.

I watched this recently on the little portable dvd thingie they give you on Alaska Air. I was startled at how emotional I became with most every song, even with those tinny earphones -- I was blinking back tears the whole flight. It's a wonderful movie.

Happy birthday to the sweetest Wilca. I hope the Great Pumpkin brings you something wonderful this year!

oooh, those are fantastic

That's the most dramatic depiction of Glenn's rockstar pose yet.

Ooh, I love the back-drops! They're sheer with forest-y prints on them, because even though the stages are in the park, sometimes there are trailers or tents set up behind them.

Oh, they had those at intonation and I loved them. When I see pictures from that show I completely forget that it was drizzling and overcast -- it looks like a brilliant sunshiney day.

Kris, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you're awesome.

There was also the part earlier on when T-Bone Burnett brought out friends including Neko Case and John Mellancamp, and they ended the set with a big "Pink Houses" jam.

 

 

Here's the one picture I took during Jeff's set:

 

 

He sang "Someone Else's Song" in a higher register than he's done recently (that I've heard, anyway) - I enjoyed it very much.

I love the way the stage background makes the people look like they're in a painting.

Admit it, you guys just went to a festival of arty cutouts, didntcha?

Hodie!

Hiya!

Having just got back to my hotel room after a charming and wonderful Jon Brion show, I don't even feel bad about having missed the David Rawlings extravaganza this thread is devoted to. Or not TOO bad.

I don't have a setlist or anything, but I'll just say that I'd never before heard the song Abacab with Daytripper, the Batman Theme, Tequila, Sunshine of Your Love, and more, much more, all thrown in there. I really like the way that guy's brain works.

Wow, I've only seen David Rawlings once, and that was as a surprise guest with Jon Brion. I fell deeply in love, but it would've been even worse with songs like that. How lucky are you?

As are others here, I've heard. :-)

I biked 650+ miles in New Zealand, and that was without a doubt the best place I ever visited. I've also been to Italy, England, Scotland, France, Canada, and in the futherance of Wilco, many U.S. tertiary markets.

I've never been to Ireland (you heard me, gogo) and I've never been to Hawaii. I'm planning on both happening one of these years!

She gets more beautiful every minute.

Happy birthday, Hannah, may it be a year filled with cupcakes and rock stars!

If you start walking now, I bet you could get there in time for the show, and I'd buy you birthday beverages all night long!

Happy happy birthday, hope I manage to see you sometime soon.

Fall is SO not here yet -- it's sunny and in the mid-eighties. The main good thing about that is that the farmer's market still has gallons of summer tomatoes, and I'm sure going to miss them when they're gone. They've been especially magnificent this year.

But other than that, I'm ready for autumn, it's gorgeous around here.

Wow, I'm in love. This is more fun than those Colbert Report "On Notice" lists!

I think the best was the Warsaw in Brooklyn (though the Mod Club in Toronto was pretty fine, too), and the worst was DAR Constitution Hall. Blech.

but it was reported that Catherine Keener and James Spader were at the Greek in LA (they were also at the Greek two years ago). Also, Sandra Oh. And I think somebody else, but I forget who...

We saw Catherine Keener and James Spader at Jeff's solo Music Box show some time ago, and also saw Elijah Wood that night, looking kinda tall.

Happy Birthday, Paolo! Sure wish I was where you are...have yourself a perfect day.

has anyone else seen the texas odyssey now i see where they got the character for mel

Thanks for that link, that was hilarious. "Neil Young, Canada's answer to Neil Finn..."