The descriptions of the various poetic forms used in Jazz ABZ calls Haiku "a dance on the blade" intended to "make the reader perceive the essence of a moment of experience." It goes on to say that they "usually invoke the physical senses and often mentions time or season." Whatever their other merits, the three haiku I called out in part 1 don't ( Read more... )

As I look back at my history of concert going, when I see a band for the first time, I've gone to see them for one of the following reasons:

1- Bands I'm deeply familiar with but haven't seen yet. Neil Young represents this category.
2- Bands where I've listened to a recent record and decide to check them out. British Sea Power works here ( Read more... )

One upside (downside?) to all this free time in lockdown is that when a weird idea strikes me I can act on it. Sunday night I wondered which artist was most represented in my record collection, so I did some quick counting, and here's what I came up with ( Read more... )

In 2018 I saw 39 movies, which my lowest total since I started posting these summaries in 2003. That record lasted one year, because in 2019 I saw only 37 movies. I had two entire months (May and September) where I didn't see even one movie, and two more (February and September) where I saw only one. Six of the movies were the ones from that year's ( Read more... )

I haven't been to a concert in the last month, but that hasn't stopped me from acquiring new music. Between my birthday, Hanukkah and even a new album release, I have an enormous pile of music waiting for me to pay it all the attention it deserves.

Arguably the most exciting was an unexpected posthumous release from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. ( Read more... )

I'm taking a real risk by posting my 2016 concert year in review before 2016 is even complete. The last time I did that was in 2006. I picked the Cowboy Junkies as my show of the year, even though I still had two shows to attend. One of them was the December 29, 2006 performance by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, which was so good that the poster ( Read more... )

I'm fairly certain 100 posts is more than I've done in most of the 10+ individual years I've been on LJ, but somehow I've now posted 100 straight days. Allow me to repost a video from seven years ago.

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I didn't intend to start 2014 by posting for 100 straight days. It wasn't until I was 2/3 of the way through January with plenty of Supper Club ( Read more... )

My parents are visiting tigerlily_blue this weekend in Atlanta. As part of the festivities, my sister is taking them to see Sharon Jones & the Dap-KingsMy parents actually go to a fair number of concerts, especially considering that they live in North Dakota, which does not number "major concert tour destination" among its virtues. Their preferences run toward ( Read more... )

I've now been doing this long enough that I've done year-in-review concert listings from 2003 through 2013, sans 2005 which got skipped for some reason. Here's my show of the year pick from each of those years:

2003 - Solomon Burke w/ The Black Keys @ Cain Park
2004 - Laibach @ Beachland Ballroom2005 - Steve Earle & the Dukes w/Allison Moorer @ ( Read more... )

Signs point to yes. I'll provide some evidence, but first, here's my favorite vaguely music related joke of 2010, courtesy of my sister, the always entertaining tigerlily_blueQ: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb ( Read more... )