Posting here in case anyone in the Bay Area missed my post on the main message board here.

Tickets went on sale to the general public today and can be purchased here.

All I can say is, Sweden live, with outtakes and discarded lyrics? Yesssssss......

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

Going home on the 18th.

Kicking myself for four days.

holy fuck me. it's a good thing I have tickets already!

Oh the temptation to proffer one of my duplicate organs (kidneys, lungs, eyes) for the filthy lucre needed to see/hear this! Goddammit.

as i was reading that update i kept waiting for him to go psyche! since (i think) he's been a detractor of the bands-playing-whole-albums-live deal, but it just never came. (admittedly this sounds pretty different from a bands-playing-whole-albums-live deal).

is this sold out? i just so happen to be in san francisco from the 14th to the 19th because my girlfriend is presenting some research at a conference. we're driving from BC and were expecting to get in late but i'll definitely put the pedal to the medal if there's a chance of attending this thing.

i slept on it thus far because i thought it was gonna be some noodly wordless guitar score.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/07/2010 06:51PM by died_trying.

as of yesterday, it was not sold out. but i would get tix sooner rather than later.

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

well that is pretty exciting indeed, then. thank you wild creature

I am crying literally crying I have no money and this is a few blocks from my apartment. I'm gonna go hang out in front and hope for magic!

I know somewhere John is walking around, maybe he'll come into where I work and hear me playing TMG and put me on the guest list!

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I am crying literally crying I have no money and this is a few blocks from my apartment. I'm gonna go hang out in front and hope for magic!

I might have an extra ticket that I hate to see go to waste.

i have an extra ticket too. you can email at mhession 63 at gmail dot com if youre interested.

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

awesome teasers in this article..

[www.sfbg.com]

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

From that article:

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Whatever the result, Darnielle says this is a one-and-done type deal and has no plans to do anything with the score after this one live performance.

"I like things that exist and then stop," he says. "So yeah, this will be it."

Holy cow! I didn't receive any email updates for these so I just saw them! I just need one! Are these offers still valid!

YES!

Gay Men's Chorus next week!

Incidentally, & this is almost totally irrelevant to the actual function of this thread, Sir Arne's Treasure is currently unavailable for rental on Netflix; there is a 'short wait'; I'd like to believe that you people are responsible for this; or like maybe it's just a really popular film; doubt it.

Dammit guys, now I have to change my netflix queue.

EDIT: Not a joke.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/13/2010 08:18PM by shlack.

rented it last week at lost weekend. netflix is so 2010.

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

...But it is 2010.

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Holy cow! I didn't receive any email updates for these so I just saw them! I just need one! Are these offers still valid!

I have one if you still need it.

Milk Song for the win

so how was it

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It was extremely good and very interesting. Started with JD on piano. Then he switched to acoustic guitar. For the final 1/2 hour or so, he was joined by an electric guitar (John Vanderslice, I'm assuming), stand -up bass and drums. It was all songs, many of which I didn't recognize, and a few which I did. (and I know the Sweden album fairly well). I'm pretty sure some of the songs were new. Very interesting and enjoyable. It was a bit hard for me to pay attention to both the band and the film, but my the end, I was getting the hang of it. It really built up from very quiet songs on the piano to a climax with the band. It made the ending of the film exciting. At the end, JD mentioned that it was the most nervous he'd been in a long time - he said he's no longer nervous doing tMG songs at all, but this was different.

I was sitting up close. At the end of the show, JD gave some of his handwritten lyrics to the guy sitting next to me, who seemed to be a friend of his. I was tempted to ask him for just one page, but I didn't want to be a pest.

oh cool. sounds amazing. anyone have a setlist?

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