dont have too much time to chit chat cause i gots to get ready for work. only, and hopefully, one more week of this over night bullshit. its really starting to take its toll on my body and my ability to accomplish anything during my waking hours.
firstly, wilco world is accepting pre-orders for sky blue sky and of course there are a whole bunch of cool incentives if you do so. i am personally going to be ordering the cd/tshirt deal which i believe is like 33 bucks. they are also pressing it to 180 gram vinyl, which is pretty fantastic, but the cool thing is is that if you order the vinyl you get the cd too.
secondly, my offering of the evening is a beautiful recording of mark kozelek as sun kil moon performing at the great american music hall in san fran on 4.31.04. the second part of the show will be posted tomorrow.
so i wake up at my usual 5.30 a.m. to get to work at my designated 7 a.m. when i walk through the door my boss stops and is like “hey man, can you do me a favor and come in at 11 pm tonight? i tried to call you but didnt have your number.” ok, so you tried to call a number you didnt have? makes sense. i, oddly enough, wasnt that annoyed until i got home and realized that there was no way i was going to get much sleep. i took a 2 hour nap and i am guessing thats all i am getting. this is not going to be fun. the reason for the overnight hours is that we are building an entirely new network at ft. mcpherson, here in georgia, we have to then migrate all 3000+ users to said network and then scrub all their data. its a pretty big undertaking and they have definitely underestimated the amount of hurdles and road blocks we were going to face with such a huge network.
i’ll be honest with you people, wilco’s sky blue sky is pretty damn great. as i had stated earlier, i wasnt to keen on it my first couple of listens. mostly due to the fact that i was not prepared for such a record from my beloved wilco. its an early/mid 70’s am radio driving thru the middle of nowhere kinda record.? so being on the wilco kick that i am on, here they are performing on 11.15.04 live from the filmore.? this is part one of a two part collection.
btw, i know that the chosen wilco photo doesnt correspond to this particular era’s wilco, i just like the photo.
in other news, i cant stress enough the coolness of last.fm’s personal radio station feature - which i think you only get if you donate.? one thing i love about it is that it brings up a lot of older stuff that i have not listened to in a while.? for only 3 bucks a month it brings me hours and hours of pleasure.
thank goodness for wgn! i was about to subject myself to watching some bad fear.net movie on comcast when i noticed that my sox were playin the cubs. perfect television for a particularly chilly/lazy sunday afternoon here in atlanta. i will say this, the cubs have bought themself a pretty fine team this year, and if they dont make it to the playoffs, i dont think they ever will again. as for my boys, they have an outstanding team too, i just hope they can win 95+ games this year. hopefully that will be good enough to get them back to the playoffs. frankly, i think the twins and the tigers were flukes last year.
in other news, the new wilco, sky blue sky, is an interesting listen. i dont know what i was expecting but it definitely wasn’t the songs that make up said record. so, my first listen was not one of pure enjoyment, in fact i think i wasnt very psyched at all. the second listen definitely unfurled a few gems, most notably the latter half of the record including “hate it here,” “walken” and “what light.” there is this weird grateful dead and steely dan vibe that is kinda hard to get past, but also makes the recording kinda endearing.
todays offering is a killer bleach era performance recorded live @ the bling pig in ann arbor, michigan. its not the greatest sound quality, but the energy is pretty spectacular.
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