photo by tim deller
ben harper live from paleo festival, nyon, france 7.21.99. tracks 10 and 11 are from festival des vieilles, charrues, france on 7.18.99.
3. breakin down
4. please bleed
8. faded
10. like a king
11. i’ll rise
ground on down
photo by tim deller
ben harper live from paleo festival, nyon, france 7.21.99. tracks 10 and 11 are from festival des vieilles, charrues, france on 7.18.99.
3. breakin down
4. please bleed
8. faded
10. like a king
11. i’ll rise
ground on down

top of the labor day to you all! ah, its nice to have days off, or at least any consecutive amount days greater than 2. we just got back from camping for the evening, which was cool but really you need more than a day to get in the swing of camping. still nice to do some fishing and commiserate with the locals.
for those that have heard it, what do you all think of the band of horses song? its really not all what i expected but i love its simplicity.
i dont think there had ever been a more anticipated release, at the time, than the release of pearl jam’s vs. i was going to western illinois university back in 93 and the whole campus, or everyone i talked to, was abuzz about its release. the local record shop, rockin robins, did a midnight sale and it seemed like half the campus was there. it was damn cold night in macomb, illinoise but that didnt harsh the mood that was quickly turning into complete pandemonium the closer midnight came. i was probably 20th in line and when i stepped foot into rockin robins i could barely hold in my excitement. i might have had wood, but thats between you and me. once the monies and product was exchanged i think i actually ran back to my dorm. which is quite rare for me cause i only run when chased, which is really never. i think i eventually got home around 1 am and i was up to at least 5 am taking it all in. to this day, i dont think any album has hit me has hard on initial listen as vs did.
here are the men of pearl jam playing in madrid, spain on 6.9.07 @ festimand sur. its an fm broadcast so you will hear the station djs from time to time.
1. porch
2. animal
3. world wide suicide
4. hail hail
5. corduroy
6. small town
7. severed hand
8. given to fly
9. green disease
10. even flow
11. daughter - wma - another brick in the wall II
12. alive
first encore
13. last exit
14. not for you
15. modern girl
16. comatose
17. go
Second Encore:
18. black
19. i believe in miracles
21. baba o’riley
21. yellow ledbetter

thats right people the mcrib is back in glorious fashion! ?everything you loved about the old mcrib is present in its current incarnation. ?hey why mess with perfection? ?kudos to? mcdonalds for achieving something that i didnt think was possible. ?they have carefully crafted the mcrib to taste absolutely no meat product that i am aware of. ?even with the mcrib tasting nothing like meat, its still a meal that should be worshipped in all its no identifiable food group glory.
in honor of the return of the mcrib here is pavement at the reading festival on august 26, 1994.
1. grounded
2. silence kit
3. summer babe
4. black out
6. cut yr hair
since moving to the atlanta area i have become quite a big falcons fan. now, they wont ever over take the bears but they are damn fun to watch, even though they are quite frustrating. todays game, at least offensively, should have solidified a new look falcons. the falcons will never go all they way, see super bowl, running the ball - no matter how great the ground game is. vick can throw the ball, i think thats apparent, but he has to start early to get himself and his receivers into a groove. once he gets going it will open up the ground game and should cause the opposing defense to question their selection of defensive sets. what the fuck am i talking about? i dont even know, and i know quite a bit about football.heres the remainder of the tweedy show. wanted to say thanks to the original taper.
this can now be found here
14. passenger side
15. shot in the arm
16. encore intro
17. walken
18. fragment of elizabeth cotten song
19. losing end
20. california stars
21. in christ, there is no east or west
22. new madrid
24. acuff rose
i had, up until about a week or so ago, been wilco’d out. for a good 8 -9 years i had hung on their every move or sound as it were, but something changed with the release of a ghost is born. actually the record had nothing to do with my change in feeling toward wilco, it was my own actions that caused the momentary breakup. i just filled my life with too much wilco. i downloaded and listened to too many shows, read too much, and cared maybe a little too much. so over the past year i have sparingly listened to anything wilco/tweedy related and i stopped reading every little blurb or 5 page spread i could get my hands on. the seperation defintely was a long time coming, cause now i think i appreciate them quite a bit more than when i was just kind of going through the wilco motions.
here is mr jeff tweedy performing @ the rocky mountain folk festival in lyons, co on 8.18.06.
this can now be found here
1. intro
2. what light
3. i am trying to break your heart
6. so much wine
9. spiders
13. theologians
the remainder will be posted after the falcons game.
in other news, as you may or may not know matador is giving pavement’s oft kilter classic, wowee zowee the make over treatment.? sure thats cool and all, but as a bonus to?those of you who pre-order from your local participating?indie shop, matador is throwing in a download to a classic pavement recording, a mad magazine type poster and a rare pavement?7″.? now, if you dont have a local participating indie shop you can order through insound or i highly recommend ordering through criminal records here in atlanta.