Because what else do I have to do tonight? Sleep ( Read more... )

I guess this has become the Wilco-setlists-from-skooshje blog.  Seven months and this is what finally gets me to post.  A big shout-out to the aether!

1. Wilco (The Song)
2. Every Little Thing
3. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
4. A Shot In The Arm
5. At Least That's What You Said

This was an amazing show.  Even better than the first time I saw them at Albright-Knox.  Sadly, I had forgetten my pen, but another concertgoer was good enough to jot down the setlist for the rest of us...

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 or, Name That Feist Tune:

1. ... my body is breaking..."
2. "I'm Sorry" "So Sorry"
3. "My Moon My Man"
4. ... isn't it made to love?...
5. ... I don't know what I knew then...

Thao Nguyen is my new girlfriend. [via, via]

Today has been the The Day here at Chez Skoosh.  All the albums, just received yesterday from Amazon and its third-party retailing minions, all day long.  Some of it is merely great, some wonderful, some immediately awe-inspiring.  The rawest, most cuttingly passionate songs I've heard in a while ( Read more... )

So I wake up this morning, having fallen asleep in front of the TV, to watch Ted Rall on C-SPAN talk about Afghanistan and what a crock of shit it all is.  One interesting fact: Rall doesn't think that al-Qa'ida had more than an indirect funding role in the 9/11 attacks; he ascribes the operation's planning and execution to Egyptian Islamic Jihad ( Read more... )

Okay, this song reminds me of a tune that was played incessantly on Canadian (or at least, St. Lawrence Valley-area) commercial radio.  As I recall, it was an acoustic piece, with these gorgeous three-part harmonies (two male, one female) , and the last line of the chorus went something like, "Port Anjumain, fifteen below".  But I'm not sure of the ( Read more... )