this post has been 1 week in the making
~ Doesn't the obvious lipsyncing on Glee bother anyone else? I mostly dig the show, but I find the lipsyncing bad to the point of distraction.
~ Scored two tickets to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Gala Celebration last night, with guest pianist Lang Lang. Took my mother, who totally fell asleep after the first 20 minutes. It is a good thing I didn't actually pay money for my seats, or I would have drop kicked her. I can't take her anywhere unless it involves food, apparently! True story.
(Also a true story? I am in love with Marin Alsop, our conductor. LOVE. Even though she looks like Eddie Izzard when he's in drag. I still adore her.)
~ A couple of days ago, I got a fall concert update from a small coffee shop venue on the Eastern Shore called The Nightcat. For a coffee shop in the middle of nowhere Maryland, the Nightcat manages to book some fairly well known acts (In the last year, Dan Navarro, Damien Jurado, Catie Curtis, Tony Lucca, and Kate Voegele have all played there). Jill Sobule is playing there later this year - so random. And even more random, Angie Aparo is on the calendar for October 17. I didn't even know he was still making music. His 2000 debut album The American is one of my very favorite start-to-finish albums. Honestly - it's up there with August & Everything After, and So Much For The Afterglow - I just listened to it to death in college, and I still take it with me on long road trips, usually. Like, that level of greatness ;) Songs of his you might know: Cry (Faith Hill covered this and had a crossover hit with it in the early '00s), Hush (appeared on a few soundtracks in the early '00s), and Spaceship.
I bought two tickets to the show and will drag rickenbacker or johnnybvo down there with me, depending on who's around. I really did love the whole American album; if he does at least three songs off there, I will be a happy camper. Preferably Hush, Third Time Around and Swell, but I am open.
~ I had a cannoli the other day! Well, a mini cannoli. This was my first time trying one, specifically because it was practically the first time I'd ever been somewhere and seen a cannoli that cost less than $3 or $4. And tangentially related to that, can I just tell you? the price of dessert items pretty much everywhere? total scam. At what point did it become acceptable for desserts to cost as much as your entree itself? That's not okay! That is, actually, ridiculous.
~ From the Ask and Ye Shall Sorta Receive files: No sooner did I bitch about Bay Area people hoarding their Street player tees, then did one appeared on ebay. Well, it was a week later, but close enough. And it's an adult M, and not a youth XL like I really wanted, but I will live. And technically I bought it from someone in Texas and not the Bay Area, but...details. I hope my buying a Huston Street player t-shirt after years of saying that I would rather dance naked for George W. Bush didn't send the universe all out of whack, somehow resulting in Huston's inability to pitch for the past 13 days.
But in promising news, Franklin Morales (who had been perfect in save opps since taking over for Huston) took the loss yesterday, so maybe that'll put a liiiiiiiiittle bit of fire under TPTB to get my boy the ball again. I'm sure the time off is doing his arm good, but I've probably watched less baseball in the past two weeks than I have at any other point this season, and that just won't do. Although, in retrospect, I suppose I could have filled that time with the trainwreck that is Brad Lidge, again. Oh, and look, the Giants have fallen to 5.5 back of the Rockies in the Wild Card while I've been away. I totally missed that.
~ Some of failbot!Harden's recent postgame comments: (avi, 8mb)
~ Lastly, I am househunting, in anticipation of rickenbacker's triumphant return to MD. It has not been fun times. More petlovers need to get into the landlording business. I do finally have some possible leads, though, which is nice. Will probably do drive-bys later today, while I wait until tomorrow to hear about pet policies and setting up a walk through....
~ Scored two tickets to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Gala Celebration last night, with guest pianist Lang Lang. Took my mother, who totally fell asleep after the first 20 minutes. It is a good thing I didn't actually pay money for my seats, or I would have drop kicked her. I can't take her anywhere unless it involves food, apparently! True story.
(Also a true story? I am in love with Marin Alsop, our conductor. LOVE. Even though she looks like Eddie Izzard when he's in drag. I still adore her.)
~ A couple of days ago, I got a fall concert update from a small coffee shop venue on the Eastern Shore called The Nightcat. For a coffee shop in the middle of nowhere Maryland, the Nightcat manages to book some fairly well known acts (In the last year, Dan Navarro, Damien Jurado, Catie Curtis, Tony Lucca, and Kate Voegele have all played there). Jill Sobule is playing there later this year - so random. And even more random, Angie Aparo is on the calendar for October 17. I didn't even know he was still making music. His 2000 debut album The American is one of my very favorite start-to-finish albums. Honestly - it's up there with August & Everything After, and So Much For The Afterglow - I just listened to it to death in college, and I still take it with me on long road trips, usually. Like, that level of greatness ;) Songs of his you might know: Cry (Faith Hill covered this and had a crossover hit with it in the early '00s), Hush (appeared on a few soundtracks in the early '00s), and Spaceship.
I bought two tickets to the show and will drag rickenbacker or johnnybvo down there with me, depending on who's around. I really did love the whole American album; if he does at least three songs off there, I will be a happy camper. Preferably Hush, Third Time Around and Swell, but I am open.
~ I had a cannoli the other day! Well, a mini cannoli. This was my first time trying one, specifically because it was practically the first time I'd ever been somewhere and seen a cannoli that cost less than $3 or $4. And tangentially related to that, can I just tell you? the price of dessert items pretty much everywhere? total scam. At what point did it become acceptable for desserts to cost as much as your entree itself? That's not okay! That is, actually, ridiculous.
~ From the Ask and Ye Shall Sorta Receive files: No sooner did I bitch about Bay Area people hoarding their Street player tees, then did one appeared on ebay. Well, it was a week later, but close enough. And it's an adult M, and not a youth XL like I really wanted, but I will live. And technically I bought it from someone in Texas and not the Bay Area, but...details. I hope my buying a Huston Street player t-shirt after years of saying that I would rather dance naked for George W. Bush didn't send the universe all out of whack, somehow resulting in Huston's inability to pitch for the past 13 days.
But in promising news, Franklin Morales (who had been perfect in save opps since taking over for Huston) took the loss yesterday, so maybe that'll put a liiiiiiiiittle bit of fire under TPTB to get my boy the ball again. I'm sure the time off is doing his arm good, but I've probably watched less baseball in the past two weeks than I have at any other point this season, and that just won't do. Although, in retrospect, I suppose I could have filled that time with the trainwreck that is Brad Lidge, again. Oh, and look, the Giants have fallen to 5.5 back of the Rockies in the Wild Card while I've been away. I totally missed that.
~ Some of failbot!Harden's recent postgame comments: (avi, 8mb)
~ Lastly, I am househunting, in anticipation of rickenbacker's triumphant return to MD. It has not been fun times. More petlovers need to get into the landlording business. I do finally have some possible leads, though, which is nice. Will probably do drive-bys later today, while I wait until tomorrow to hear about pet policies and setting up a walk through....