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(the fan)

2009/06/30

Are times getting tough?
Are the roads you travel rough?
Have you had enough of the old?
Tired of being exposed to the cold?
Put on your headphones before you explode,
Wilco will love you baby.

(the song) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsNqxTEniNI

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The Onion

2009/06/30

Three days ago I posted:

@matt4n: Cats r becoming a 2nd tier pet, w/ gfish and hamsters. They un4tunately need a Michael Vick-like incident if they want to keep up w dogs. 10:16 PM Jun 27th from mobile web”

And today The onion, who I follow on Twitter, posted:

@TheOnion Sports: Michael Vick: ‘I Also Ate Kittens’ http://bit.ly/pSbL6 about 1 hour ago.

Matt Foran at 00:02 on 30 June

As Mike North says, I’m not sayin, I’m just sayin…

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Sarah (left) was at a party and hadn’t seen me in a couple years and whoever was at this party decided to play a practical joke on her and told this kid (on the right) all about me… and then told Sarah “Matt’s here!” . Sarah eventually figured it out. Big giveaways would also have been the fact that I refuse to pose for pictures and detest ovation guitars.

Matt Foran at 18:40 on 29 June

Sorry I meant “applause” guitars, the ovations cheap cousin.

Mark McCormick at 18:50 on 29 June
oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my

God…all we need is ms andresino in the background yelling at me and you two looking at each other like “damn mark’s a moron” at first glance i thought that was you too. if you meet up with her, tell her i say hi. would love to hear from her.

Justin McBride at 22:20 on 29 June

hahahaha. that’s really funny. he looks nothing like you though. even though all you crackers look the same. and ovation guitars do blow.

Matt Foran at 23:02 on 29 June

They are hideous instruments w that Concave plastic in back. My first guitar teacher had one and whenever I see them I feel nauseous (dorian ionian myxolydian… “cmon man just teach me how to play Dave Matthews songs!”)

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Happy Wilco Week

2009/06/29

LATIMES: Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy gave fans a scare Saturday night at the recently refurbished Fox Theater in Pomona when he declared, 12 songs into the band’s set, that the Chicago-based act was “approaching the end of an era,” and promised more details later.

Those aren’t words to be taken lightly for Wilco followers. Depending on who’s doing the counting, the group has had as many as six different eras since releasing its country-obsessed 1995 debut, “A.M.” Yet its audience has remained loyal through a host of lineup changes, Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt being the only constants in Wilco’s career.

While the comment raised concerns about a future without, say, the participation of local guitar slinger Nels Cline or rhythmic contortionist Glenn Kotche, the truth turned out to be nothing so worrisome. After 45 minutes, Tweedy revealed only that multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone was turning 40.

Welcome to Wilco 2009, where playfulness resides on equal footing with anxiety. The group opened the first of its four sold-out dates in the L.A. area — the band performs Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the Wiltern — with a theme song, the drolly titled “Wilco (The Song)” from the band’s seventh studio album of original material, “Wilco (The Album),” due for release June 30.

“Is someone twisting a knife in your back,” sang Tweedy in the show opener, a mid-tempo feel-good romp that offers the band as consoling device (“Wilco will love you, baby”). It’s a long way from the head-pounding skepticism toward rock ‘n’ roll in “Misunderstood” from Wilco’s 1996 album, “Being There,” but a more comfortable Wilco isn’t a less daring one.

New songs such as “One Wing” and “Deeper Down” allowed Sansone and keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen to turn the band into a mini-orchestra, and “Bull Black Nova” was downright chilling, perhaps the nastiest, most aggressive tune in the Wilco songbook. Cline’s stalking guitar played a devilish cat-and-mouse with Jorgensen’s tension-fraught keys until the two became indiscernible.

For all the song’s nightmare visions of blood-soaked vintage cars, the tune, like many in the Wilco canon, ultimately comes down to the inability to connect. It’s an unanswered phone that sends Tweedy’s rasp into a falsetto, and the band into a surge of panic.

There was no mention of recently deceased former bandmate Jay Bennett, who served an integral role in Wilco until being asked to leave in 2001. Any tribute would have been forced, as relations between Tweedy and Bennett had remained frayed in the years since his departure, but a reworking of “Can’t Stand It,” which Bennett co-wrote, proved an honorable act of respect. The band brought new force to the pop number with a more pronounced gospel coda.

Returning to business as usual, it was clear that Wilco is the rarest of bands — one that’s turned adventurousness into a routine.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/06/live-wilco-at-the-fox-theatre-in-pomona.html

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