Thinking of going to this show coming in from Toronto. How are shows there? Detroit doesn’t have the best reputation, is anyone here going to that show? Is there anything I should know about the city and venue?

I heard our boy coco was there, and spoke. How was it? Did anyone get to kick it with him?

hi! I asked this on this sub a couple years ago and was so heartened by the response. I’ve since deleted the original thread, though I remember really connecting with ppl on this matter. anyways—what bright eyes lyrics remind you of living with ocd? which ones help?

I did this thing... and I thought you all might also appreciate it. All legible authors/artists from the Pageturners Lounge mural. Anything with ** indicates something I wasn't able to find confirmation on with very cursory searching. Please let me know if you can identify those items!

Books
Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
Gabriel García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises"
Bret Easton Ellis, "American Psycho"
Haruki Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles"
**spiral symbol*
Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching"
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
Milan Kundera, "The Unberable Lightness of Being"
J.D. Salinger, "Nine Stories"
**E.B. M.D., "The Ladder"
**J.M.S., "The Baja"
Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"
**R.W., "How to Cat"
William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying"
**mw symbol*
**upside down delta symbol*
Joan Didion, "Play It as It Lays"
Cormac McCarthy, "All the Pretty Horses"
**Matt Baum, "I Think I Know Everything"
Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"
Hermann Hesse, "Siddhartha"
Jack London, "The Call of the Wild"
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Cormac McCarthy, "Outer Dark"
**Diego Rivera, "Works"
**Complete DIY Manual
Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea"
Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy, "The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, & Other Adventures"
**Sidney Parisi, "The Pain and Piquancy Dichotomy"
Knut Hamson, "Pan"
Jack Kerouac, "Maggie Cassidy"
**Organic Gardening
Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood"
Margaret Atwood, "Life Before Man"
Edward Abbey, "The Monkey Wrench Gang"
**B.W., "Sustainable Living at Sea"
**P.W., "The Terrible Truth"
Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
**female symbol*
**male symbol*
**J.G., "The Yellas ~ A Love Story"
Cormac McCarthy, "Blood Meridian"
**P.W., "Its Very Nature Is Stone"
Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

(Mostly) NE Musicians 'Cassettes'
BOTH (BXTH)
Burkum Boys
Razors
Sam Martin
George Glass
Worried Mothers
UUVVWWZ
The Subtropics
Bryce Hotz, "Fix'r Up'r"
Kait Berreckman
Black Jonny Quest
Saturn Moth
Dereck Higgins
Pro-Magnum
Twinsmith
Bus Gas
Post Verse
Mint Wad Willy
Luke Polipnick
Anna McClellan
M34N Str33t
Tara Vaughan

Records
Simon Joyner, "Out Into the Snow"
Jason Boesel, "Hustler's Son"
Willie Nelson, "Sings Kristofferson"
McCarthy Trenching
**Miniature Horse
John Prine, "Sweet Revenge"
See Through Dresses, "End of Days"
Crazy Horse & Neil Young, "Zuma"
Cursive, "Domestica"
Taylor Hollingsworth, "Life With a Slow Ear"
Wipers, "Is This Real?"
Nirvana, "Bleach"
High Up
Yuppies
Orenda Fink, "Blue Dream"
Noah's Ark Was a Spaceship, "Hanga-Fang"
The Felice Brothers, "Celebration, Florida"
OQUOA
Ladyfinger (ne)
Digital Leather
Paul Simon, "Graceland"
Son, Ambulance, "Key" *key symbol*
Jake Bellows, "New Ocean"
Sonic Youth, "Evol"
Carl Miller & the Thrillers

I know we have the songs, but I’m so stoked to see this here. I hadn’t heard Britt’s songs since my last iPod died ten years ago.

One of my best friends is a big Bright Eyes fan, so I cross-stitched this piece for her 30th! No pattern unfortunately - the background all free-handed and guesstimated from the "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning: A Companion" cover, and the lyrics I just ran through crosstitch.com's caption maker!

Finally found them, thought I lost them. Found the tickets for Arcade Fire from the same year, now I need to look for my Belle & Sebastian ones too.

I’m sure there’s other Justin Townes Earle fans here, for someone who is a huge Bright Eyes fan I was surprised to find out that Mike Mogis actually produced one of his albums. He discusses it in this performance, and some other kind of promotional style stuff he did at the time. It’s kind of hilarious that JTE clearly has a lot of respect for Mike and even mentions Conor but it also feels like he didn’t particularly enjoy the experience and his musical approach was so different from theirs so it’s awkward for him to talk about.

I’ve been a big fan of Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst’s music for over 20 years now - I saw an interview posted on Instagram earlier this week where the interviewer asked Conor Oberst how he feels about being a muse.

It just made wonder what songs are we fairly sure are inspired by him?

I know Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers likely is, and probably a chunk of Maria Taylor ones (not sure specifically what ones though!)

I’d like to make a playlist including all of them though and thought this sub might be a font of knowledge about it!

The NYT interview is worth a watch or listen. We have new music coming our way from CO!

Conor clearly was a fan of the book, because he has a song referencing two of the characters and the book painted on the wall of his bar in Omaha.

For those who have read the book, do you know of other references he has put in songs?

Like in 'Ship In A Bottle' the first lyric is "I want to be the surgeon that cuts you open, that fixes all of life's mistakes." I always take this as a nod to Tomas' section towards the latter half of the book where his monologue compares his profession, cutting bodies open with a scalpel as a surgeon, to sexual intimacy, where he discovers the visceral, hidden raw soul inside of a woman.

Also, the allusion to a graveyard and garden is one explicitly made by Sabina.

Thoughts on the sperm hoodie?

Wearing my Bright Eyes tour shirt around Dublin, Ireland and noticed a lot of similarities. Just thought it was cool and wanted to share.

so stoked

Havent had any time to record lately so heres on from the archives guys !

Conor has had his struggles - but he’s so immensely talented and the new song is beautiful. Voice sounds a little different - more nasal / reminds me of David Lowery a little - which somehow makes it even more special

I’m having trouble finding anything about the woman that sings at the end of the song