Set One

* AC/DC Bag
* Foam
* Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
* Bouncing Around The Room
* Sample In A Jar
* Kill Devil Falls
* It’s Ice
* Horn
* Mountains in the Mist
* Poor Heart
* 46 Days
* David Bowie

Set Two

* Runaway Jim
* Down With Disease >
* Free
* Waste
* Taste
* Bug
* Wading In The Velvet Sea
* Mike’s Song >
* I Am Hydrogen >
* Weekapaug Groove
* Cavern

Encore

* Character Zero

Festival 8, Indio, CA
October 30
Set One

* Party Time
* Chalk Dust Torture
* The Moma Dance
* NICU
* Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
* Stash
* I Didn’t Know
* Poor Heart
* Cavern
* Beauty Of A Broken Heart
* Ocelot
* Time Turns Elastic

Set Two

* Punch You in the Eye >
* Down With Disease >
* Prince Caspian >
* Wolfman’s Brother >
* Piper >
* Joy
* David Bowie
* Harry Hood
* Golgi Apparatus

Encore

* Chracter Zero

October 31
Set One

* Sample In A Jar
* The Divided Sky
* Lawn Boy
* Kill Devil Falls
* Bathtub Gin
* The Squirming Coil
* Runaway Jim >
* Possum
* Run Like An Antelope

Set Two

* Rocks Off
* Rip This Joint
* Shake Your Hips
* Casino Boogie
* Tumbling Dice
* Sweet Virginia
* Torn and Frayed
* Sweet Black Angel
* Loving Cup
* Happy
* Turd On The Run
* Ventilator Blues >
* I Just Want To See His Face
* Let It Loose
* All Down The Line
* Stop Breaking Down
* Shine A Light
* Soul Survivor

Set Three

* Backwards Down the Number Line >
* Fluffhead
* Ghost
* When the Circus Comes
* You Enjoy Myself

Encore

* Suzy Greenberg

November 1

Set One

* Water In The Sky
* Back On The Train
* Brian And Robert
* Invisible
* Strange Design
* Mountains in the Mist
* The Curtain With
* Army Of One
* Sleep Again
* My Sweet One
* Let Me Lie
* Bouncing Around The Room
* Train Song
* Wilson
* McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters
* Driver
* Talk
* Secret Smile

Set Two

* AC\DC Bag
* Rift
* Gotta Jibboo
* Heavy Things
* Reba
* The Wedge
* Guelah Papyrus
* Undermind
* Sparkle
* Split Open and Melt

Set Three

* Tweezer >
* Maze
* Free
* Sugar Shack
* Limb By Limb
* Theme From The Bottom
* Mike’s Song >
* 2001 >
* Light >
* Slave To The Traffic Light

Encore

* Grind
* Esther
* Tweezer Reprise

Joy is over there in her incredible clothes
She has silver silk shimmering down to her toes
I was doing the best that I can I suppose
But that little girl dancer
Eventually grows
Well she grows

You can’t imagine all the times that I tried
To uncover the source of the tears that you cried
“Lets throw it away and just go for a ride”
And you’d say “ok” but you’d keep it inside
And I tried
I tried
I tried
I tried

We want you to be happy
Don’t live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
Cause this is your song too

I never thought I could have it so good
You were the song that my soul understood
That time is a river that flows through the woods
And it lead us to places we both understood
Would be gone
Before to long
Would be gone
Before to long

When we were young we thought life was a game
But then somebody leaves you and your never the same
All of the places and people belong to the puzzle
But one of the pieces is gone
And it’s you
It’s you
It’s you
Joy, its you

We want you to be happy
Don’t live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
Cause this is your song too

Anytime we’ll weather this storm
Inside together you’ll see the change
When the sun shines through

We want you to be happy
Don’t live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
Cause this is your song too

Set One Prowler > Intentions Clear, Bad Poker, Professor Wormbog > “Jimmy Stewart” > 2nd Self, White Man’s Moccasins, The Stranger
Set Two JaJunk > Turn & Run, Pay the Snucka*, Uncommon > In the Flesh > Another Brick In the Wall > Raymond^, Slacker, Much Obliged
Encore Dear Prudence, JaJunk

Excellent 2nd set. The Snucka>Uncommon>In The Flesh>Another Brick In The Wall was great. Can’t wait to get the CD’s and hear it again.

I: Viola Lee Blues > Maggie’s Farm, Baby Blue, It’s All Over Now > She Says > Liberty > Viola Lee Blues
II: Stealin@, Mexicali Blues@, Friend of the Devil@, Two Djinn > Stuff > Stella Blue* > Viola Lee Blues* > Throwing Stones*
E: Gloria

An odd first set. Two Dylan songs followed by a Stones? Hmm… Never seen that done before. I did enjoy the Viola Lee Blues and hope that makes it into regular rotation. The highlights for me were the obvious nod to Jerry, FOTD and Stella Blue. Didn’t think Bobby could pull off Jerry songs so well.

Looks like the jolly ol’ English are sick of the lies of the right wingers too. Hope our neighbors in the Great White North are sick of this as well.

LONDON – Britons reacted with outrage Friday at American criticism of the country’s health care system and defended their cradle-to-grave medical coverage on Twitter, television and in the tabloids.

Right-wing attacks on President Barack Obama’s health reform plans have struck a nerve in Britain, where residents broadly take for granted their universal coverage under the state-funded National Health Service — and look askance at the millions of Americans without insurance.

“Land of the Fee,” declared the Daily Mirror in reference to the United States’ high-charging health model. The London newspaper called the “lies and distortions” being circulated in the United States about the National Health Service “truly sickening.”

“Jaw droppingly untruthful,” said the British Medical Association’s chairman, Hamish Meldrum.

“NHS often makes the difference between pain and comfort, despair and hope, life and death,” Prime Minister Gordon Brown tweeted. “Thanks for always being there.”

Even British health campaigner Kate Spall — who criticizes NHS failings in U.S. television ads produced by Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, a lobby group that opposes Obama’s plans — declared that the group had misled her and was distorting her true views. Spall’s mother died of kidney cancer while waiting for treatment.

“There are failings in the system but I’m not anti-NHS at all,” Spall told the British Broadcasting Corp.

“I help the vulnerable patients in our country that come to me for help, those that have been denied treatment,” she said. “So the irony is, the people that are falling through the net in the U.S. are patients that I would support anyway.”

Britain’s opposition Conservative Party is distancing itself from its maverick member of European Parliament, Daniel Hannan, who has criticized the NHS on U.S. news programs.

Conservative leader David Cameron dismissed Hannan as having “eccentric views.”

In an e-mail to Conservative Party workers published on his blog, Cameron said millions, including his own family, were grateful for NHS-provided care.

“Just look at all the support which the NHS has received on Twitter over the last couple of days,” he wrote. “It is a reminder — if one were needed — of how proud we in Britain are of the NHS.”

The NHS, founded in 1948, is the cornerstone of the United Kingdom’s welfare state.

About 12 percent of the UK’s 61 million residents have private insurance, but the vast majority rely on state-funded emergency care, surgery and access to family doctors. Even those who complain about the system say they want it improved, not dismantled.

British officials acknowledge that their system has been struggling to cope and faces a 15 billion pound ($24 billion) deficit. Hospitals are often overcrowded, dirty and understaffed, which means some patients do not get the care they are promised.

Nicholson Baker on the Kindle:

“It was like going from a Mini Cooper to a white 1982 Impala with blown shocks.”

I read the following blog entry entitled “In Appreciation of Library Catalogers and Cataloging Standards” and it made me feel good that my 15 years of cataloging does not go unnoticed. In particular, I liked the following:

we need to realize that although much of their work is behind the scenes and invisible to most of us, catalogers continue to play an important, critical role in enabling us to find the information essential to our going about our daily lives both at work and at home…. Cataloging standards can also form the basis for other forms of web searching. A prominent information consultant told me some years ago that he liked to hire catalogers for applications development in database and web searching because he found their training and expertise to be so helpful and effective.

Here’s my recipe for granola:

3 cups whole oats

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup maple syrup

1/4 cup olive or canola oil

couple handfuls of cashews

Mix in a bowl and spread out on a cookie sheet and bake at 250 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Throw in some dried fruit and peanut M&M’s and you’re good to go!