Down Will Go Back Up Forevermore

Guided By Voices were typically Guided By Voices last night – they played for over two hours, they did 50+ songs, the audience was crazy, and most everyone in the room was drunk. I’m not sure what happened, but after about an hour and a half, my energy level dropped off significantly, so I had to move to the back a bit to avoid all the people jumping around. The crowd was moshing more than usual, but I didn’t mind – it wasn’t particularly violent, and I’m happy to see so much positive reaction to the band. It was really cool to see a lot of the songs from Universal Truth & Cycles recieved with the same excitement and energy as many of the older hits – “Back To The Lake”, “Everywhere With Helicopter”, and “Cheyenne” in particular are huge crowd pleasers.

The band played all nineteen songs from Universal Truths, plus: Skills Like This, The Brides Have Hit The Glass, The Enemy, Glad Girls, Chasing Heather Crazy, Twilight Campfighter, I Drove A Tank, Instrument Beetle, Alone Stinking And Unafraid, Teenage FBI, Tight Globes, Do Something Real, Pop Zeus, Things That I Will Keep, Steeple of Knives, Get Under It, Submarine Teams, Cut-Out Witch (with Acorns & Orioles sung over the bridge, like in the Peel Session version!), The Official Ironmen Rally Song, Shocker In Gloomtown, Motor Away, My Valuable Hunting Knife, Game of Pricks, Watch Me Jumpstart, Hardcore UFOs, Buzzards and Dreadful Crows, Tractor Rape Chain, Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory, I Am A Scientist, Peephole, Baba O’Riley, A Hard Day’s Night

Note: I’d only heard a few songs online that didn’t really grab me, but I absolutely must get more songs by the French Kicks. They were fabulous last night, one of the best opening acts I’ve seen in a long time.

Why Rushmore Is So Expensive On DVD

Russell explains:

Criterion discs are expensive, as you’ve seen. The result of being a boutique specialty label that has to license film content from studios and produce bonus content on their own dime. Buena Vista or Touchstone or whoever holds the rights to Rushmore already had a disc out when Criterion did theirs. So they paid for everything, and it’s expensive. BV/Touchstone decided not to put out their own Tenenbaums disc, instead cedeing all the duties to Criterion, and sharing the distribution cost with them. So rather than being priced at Criterion’s typical boutique point, the Tenenbaums disc, backed by a huge studio (Disney) is as cheap as most major studio 2-disc sets.

Thank you! Now I’m wondering if the Criterion special edition is really worth the extra money – even looking on used websites, the disc is still in the $25-30 range. My ideal price would be as close to $20 as could be considered reasonable.