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maybe the version on the bonus disk was written/recorded earlier

 

It was you can hear a version almost identical to the More Like The Moon EP one on one of the wilco film bonus clips. I think Jorgensen probably helped them mix it, but the recording for the one was probably late 2000 early 2001.

 

--Mike

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I am pretty sure I know this one. I teach Pre-K and we use a reading program called "Open Court" published by the company SRA. There are sound cards for each letter and letter K has a picture of a camera and when you do letter K with your students you say "K, camera, "K," "K," "K," just like C." Because the C also has a camera. We don't teach kids that C also makes an S sound. So obviously Tweedy's kids used Open Court and like the rest of us who have seen it he realized it sucked and immortalized it in song. That's gotta be it.

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It was you can hear a version almost identical to the More Like The Moon EP one on one of the wilco film bonus clips. I think Jorgensen probably helped them mix it, but the recording for the one was probably late 2000 early 2001.

 

--Mike

 

the EP version sounds very similar to the way they used to play it in late 2000, so it must have been recorded then

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I am pretty sure I know this one. I teach Pre-K and we use a reading program called "Open Court" published by the company SRA. There are sound cards for each letter and letter K has a picture of a camera and when you do letter K with your students you say "K, camera, "K," "K," "K," just like C." Because the C also has a camera. We don't teach kids that C also makes an S sound. So obviously Tweedy's kids used Open Court and like the rest of us who have seen it he realized it sucked and immortalized it in song. That's gotta be it.

 

Its a long shot. But, am I lame because I know exactly what you're talking about? (I am also in the field). Kids seem to not like Open Court too, but the older grades have some decent stories in them.

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when i was in south africa i took a picture of a sign that said "this area is speed enforced by camera" in english and in afrikaans and the afrikaans spelling was kamera.

 

i'll look for it and post it if i find it. might have something to do with it, afrikaans is based on german i think... idk

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I think it's called Kamera because it's not a real camera he's talking about. When he says he needs a kamera to remind him what lies he's been hiding, what echoes belong, he's not talking about a Nikon, he's talking about memory and self-reflection.

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