Chit-Chat Check-In #148 • Transcript
Hello from Paris on Valentine’s Day, which is a little bit too on the nose, if you ask me.
I picked this song, “Love Takes Miles” by Cameron Winter, for Susie. It seems very true to me about how love kind of actually works. I think you can feel the immediate feeling of love over and over and over again. But the real love takes a lot of miles, a lot of time. That’s the kind of love that makes ground harder under your feet and colors stronger. It’s just not the same thing as puppy love.
It’s a poignant song for such a young person to put out into the world. I hope you check out the rest of Cameron’s songs, and Geese. A lot of people have opinions about them. I’ll just say what Susie said when she saw Geese on Saturday Night Live, that she would have loved to have booked them at Lounge Ax. They totally would have fit in at Lounge Ax.
Happy Valentine’s Day. I know it’s a made-up holiday, but love ain’t so bad, especially right now. It could be worse, and it often is. Carry on. OxO—Jeffy
This Week in Wilco, Etc.
2010 / February 9: Wilco is at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, OR. The 23-song set includes a cover of the Buffalo Springfield’s “Broken Arrow” and Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck are guests on “California Stars.” Califone opens the evening.
1994 / Febraury 10: Uncle Tupelo appears at the Cow Haus in Tallahassee, FL with Creamsickle opening.
2021 / February 11: On The Tweedy Show #149, Jeff debuts the new song, “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” which is officially issued four years later on Twilight Override.
Jury’s still out for me on Mr Winter but this song is special (his video for it is cool too). BUT: have you heard SSF performer and Chicago’s own Elizabeth Moen’s version of this song? Holy sh*t, it’ll stop you in your tracks. Enjoy V-day in Paree with your beloveds and you’ll soon be reunited with your darling S. Thanks for thinking of us on V Day.
Dig it. Enjoy Paris & please let our European allies that most of us are deeply ashamed of our government’s arrogant dismissals of the most important alliance in modern history.