Hodie

from one minor holiday girl to another: Happy Birthday!!! I don't have any Guinness, so I'll just toast you with some canadian maple syrup (!).

Will there be dancing!? It sounds like it'll be wonderful, wish I could be there.

I have an irish last name, but I do pretty much nothing for st. patrick's day except wear green eyes -- thank you for taking up the slack for me! And we will definitely require video documentation of you all in the band. Please!?

This will work better: http://www.farewelltotheworld.com/ 6pm Eastern US time, then! Plus, they're letting us send e-paper airplanes:

The line in question is "We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man" and I checked -- it's repeated every verse. I honestly never bothered to know! (I would be neglecting my Obsessed Fan duties if I didn't mention that his name is spelled "Jon")

Have I ever mentioned that I love marquees?

You know your name was whispered in a sigh-y manner by each of us the minute we realized he was gonna take the Leonard Cohen request and run with it, right? BTW, Friday's show was spectacular. I had invited people who'd never seen Jon before, including a couple who flew from DC to be there because I told them they should (how's that for pressure?). It was the best introduction to Jon I could've wished for. People who didn't go to the Hideout shouldn't be regretting a thing. Nevertheless, I have every intention of using Aricandover's description as frequently as I possibly can, cuz it

I wouldn't have thought it'd be possible to surpass Friday's show by that much (because Friday's show was brilliant), but it was indeed surpassed. By a mile or so. Lots of covers, lots of virtuosity, lots of really beautiful music, and great big shouty sing-alongs by the bucketful. Pretty much my dream come true. I heard Albatross at a recent Largo show and was reminded of how great Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac is. Need Your Love So Bad is going to send me back to go listen to some. It's been too long. Want the setlist? Well, ok: --Thax Douglas poem --Thax & Jon [Colin (some

Wow, was that show fun or WHAT?!! I think the highlights for me were Don't Think Twice sung to the tune of Lithium; Back in Black played on the piano in the manner of Fats Waller; Elliot Smith's Happiness (unbelievably beautiful), You Don't Know What Love is done in the manner of the White Album (really), and a Prince medly with Pop Life, Controversy (yes!), Red Corvette, and Kiss. But what was really fun was having so many friends there -- I think we just pretty much bought our the center front section. Sunday can't come soon enough.

HahaHA! Yes, he's going to be there, row E, I think. His beautiful wife Marian will be there, too. I think during a wine-besotted holiday party I really talked Jon up to her (yes, more than my usual talking up of him, even), so they're coming to Chicago as a mini-vacation. Thanks for posting the link to the archive, gogo -- it really is a great story!

And the Shine guy will be at the Jon Brion show on Friday, so those of you who'll be there can even tell him that yourself.

This is going to be so fun! On top of two days of Jon, I get to see a bunch of my beloved Basement Show cohorts again!

Boy, I sure do remember that sensation! I've been away all day, and looking forward to reading this thread. Great setlist, beautiful poster, and another amazing show. Jeff outdid himself this year!

Brianne asks all the best questions.

Ha! I was about to say it looks like a flock of starlings! Knowing that it's a falcon chasing them all makes it a little scary, though.

Justine's australian accent in Look Both Ways sounded remarkably life-like to my american ears, which is why I asked. If you ever happen to see it showing on tv, listen and tell me if I'm crazy. I should also mention that she is utterly un-Mallory like in this film, both in appearance and demeanor. I had a hard time believing it was her. I'm so sorry you don't like The Office, because it has brought an enormous amount of mirth to my own life. HILARIOUS EDIT, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF MY SECOND PARAGRAPH: The reason she doesn't look like Justine Bateman and has a great australian accen

It's an australian drama which is strangely uplifting given its story of fate and death and disaster. I liked it a lot. Justine Bateman's not Australian, is she?

Looks fabulous! I'm glad to see the weather didn't do you in!

We're hoping anxiously with you, believe me! Stories of the weekend helped regale Kande and I as we were slogging through a blizzard on I-95 today, so I had great occasion to miss you guys, too. And with so many of our group being non-chicago people, I'm VERY grateful we didn't have these storms on our weekend's shows! I don't see any report from yesterday's performance -- I hope the weather didn't slam them!

The first online community I got all tangled up in was an amateur musicians forum. I made a slew of close friends, and traveled around the u.s. and europe meeting up with them. This was early enough in the internet revolution that my in-person friends and family were sure I was going to get e-axe murdered at any second. My first band "forum" wad actually a list-serve -- Tongue in the Mail for Crowded House fans. It was a great community for a while, and I think there are still folks very much communing there. Oh, and I think the VC member numbers got muddled up that time we all had to

The entire setlist was all requests. He didn't rule out anything except songs he thought he couldn't play (like for example Corduroy Cut-Off Girl, which we just went ahead and sang ourselves once he was finished. Nyah).

How very Vancouver of you! I'm so glad you got to go. I love these guys solo. And not.

It's amazing how very wrong a person can be. Some of them were really pretty shouty. Very very fun, though. On the other hand, the singing on Not for the Season that year was, if I remember correctly, quite beautiful.

Luckiness galore, it's true. And yes, the sig is meant to dawn on you slowly.

Seriously wonderful.