I live in Louisville, so we go to this fest quite a bit. When they announced the lineup, my wife excitedly texted me that WOD was on it. I was confused why she'd think that after seeing it. Turns out, one of the local news outlets was using a slideshow of past images from Forecastle as the header to the article and the fist pic was of Adam G.
One of the highlights of every Forecastle announcement is looking at the local media's social media pages and seeing all of the old men commenting about how the lineup is shit and they've never heard of any of these bands.
I'm glad they performed on this. My son likes to watch War on Drugs performances on YouTube and this is his favorite song. If Lucius isn't on there, he gets mad.
If you're into country-rock, those First National Band albums are great.
I used to sing "Some of Shelley's Blues" with my daughter when she was little. She loved that song. I still do.
RIP
Two things...
1. I used to work at a tv station in Louisville that was a Fox affiliate. When Empire blew up, we flew a crew out to do the local media press thing and they interviewed some cast members. While setting up for Terrence Howard's interview, he asked our crew where they were from. They told him Louisville and he replied, "Ah, Louisville. I need to get down there sometime and impregnate some bitches."
2. If you're remotely interested in 90's music, you should be listening to The Ringer's "60 Songs That Explain the 90's" podcast. Rob Harvilla is amazing on it. It doesn't matter if you like or have even heard the song an episode focuses on, it's all good. He recently did one on Bone Thugz, and it was enlightening. No joke, I got a little choked up listening to it. Harvilla is great at approaching each artists as a person and having respect for them. Really, just listen to it. It's equal parts fun-as-hell and touching.
That is all.
Does that dude highrise (I think that was the name) still post here? If not, can I steal his gimmick?
Fuck you. This song rules.
For real, 13-year-old log ate this shit up when it came out. Same with "Silent Lucidity".
We just did our first viewing of the Yo Gabba Gabba Christmas special last night. Cults do a song on it. Well, "Cults" don't, but "Madeline, Brian and the band" do. It's a song about hot chocolate and it's amazing.
Sometimes I get down about things (as we all do, rightfully so), but then you see someone pull off the two things she did in a span of like a day, and it's pretty wonderful to be alive.
When I started getting heavily into Wilco in '02 or so, I would grab anything Tweedy was involved with (I still do, really). This was the one thing that really really stuck with me. Such an amazing album.
A couple years ago, I was at work and looking at Instagram. A local record store posted that they had used copies of this, Eureka and Bad Timing. I immediately stopped working and drove there. Luckily, they still had all three. I probably paid too much, but fuck it. I was buying those records.
I like the album quite a lot, but it does feel a bit "minor". In a weird way, I like that she backed off a bit and did a small album. Her last one really grew on me and I think this one will, too.
You're 100% right about the threat of war. That is something that I luckily never had to fathom (I'm not THAT old).
I guess what I meant by "things we never dreamed of" is not necessarily worse things, just different things. Climate change was a threat when I was young, but it wasn't discussed really. Same with school shootings.
You made a good point about access to social media, etc. I think that plays a major role. I got to be oblivious to crap as a kid. That's harder to do nowadays.
I found out that I was actually at the IWA-Mid South show that Eddie talked about in the promos leading up to this match. It's the one that he said Punk yelled at him in front of the whole locker room.
Lololololol.
I'm one of the few people here who'll get the Lambert reference, I'm guessing.
I just think people forget that being a kid is tough. Not that it's not tough being an adult, but (hopefully) you've learned a few things that help by that point.
As an aside, how fucking great was that AEW show this weekend?!??!
I don't think you can say "objectively" that this generation has it better. Just like every other generation, they have it different. There are many things that are better and many that were worse.
I also don't think nuclear attack drills are comparable to school shooter drills. How many nuclear attacks were there when we were young?
As an old, I too sometimes feel like kids today are a bit "soft". But, I figure every generation feels that way about the ones that come after them.
I have kids of my own. On the one hand, I feel that they do need to be "tough". No matter what generation, life is hard. You need a certain toughness just to make it through in one piece.
On the other hand, this is a generation that is dealing with things that we never imagined. There's a very real possibility that the planet won't be livable in their lifetime, and they're constantly put down as weak by the generations that caused that.
Also, it breaks my heart that my kids have to participate in active shooter drills at school. It breaks my heart even more that there's a very big chance that they may be involved in an actual mass shooting at some point in their lives.
I don't know what to think about the situation with Dogleg. I have a feeling that, like others have pointed out, there may be more to this. I just don't like to see blanket statement that today's kids are "weak" or "soft" when they're required to face things that we never dreamed of.
Dang. No wonder there hasn't been any new Radiohead in forever. Jonny is BUSY.
Also, "The soundtrack, out November 26, will feature an original Greenwood song called “Licorice Pizza” alongside David Bowie, Nina Simone, and more." made me think that Greenwood had made a song with Bowie and Simone even though that'd be physically impossible. Well, I guess they could do some Natalie Cole shit with it?
Man, I'm super stoked for Licorice Pizza and Power of the Dog. I've heard great things about the latter.
I've only seen them once, and I had high expectations. Somehow, they were even better than I'd hoped. It was an outdoor festival in the middle of the day and it was still so amazing.
I will definitely be seeing them at that Louisville stop in July!
EVERYTHING IS LINKS!!!! AAAAAHHH!!!
For real, I'm pretty stoked for this. I missed Miss Universe when it first came out, but came to LOVE it. I'm excited to see what she does next.
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