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1. Peter Mulvey, Jeff Foucault, and Kris Delmhorst = my musical OT3 forever. ♥

2. Watching truepenny's riding lessons is really interesting, even for someone as not-into-horses as I am. It's even more fun when June The Barn Cat naps in my lap the whole time. (Kitty!)

3. I miss truepenny and mirrorthaw. We lived practically in each other's pockets for so long that we got ( Read more... )

One of these days I am going to wake up and realize that I am really too old to go out to concerts, spend three hours dancing like a lunatic and singing myself hoarse, and come home at 1:30 am sweaty, exhausted, and stinking of beer because some moron doesn't grasp the concept of finishing his beverage before he starts to mosh ( Read more... )

I'm still wired from the Peter Mulvey show I saw tonight: a good show (which is a given) with a terrific opening act (which is decidedly not). No new songs, but a surprising number of older songs - songs from Rapture and Trouble With Poets that have been off the concert playlist for years now. He did a heartbreakingly lovely version of "Knuckleball ( Read more... )

I like live music. Really, really like it. But I go to fewer and fewer shows as I get older, because I find audiences more and more annoying, and because a lot of bands whose CDs I love are not really all that spectacular live, or I've already seen them once or twice or more ( Read more... )

For much of the past week I have been in a sort of blind angry panic about my approaching deadline: May 10, the date on which I must turn in a draft of my entire dissertation to my committe in preparation for my defense ( Read more... )

Since we're on the subject of music, I'll start by observing that Jeffrey Foucault's recorded version of "4&20 Blues," available on Stripping Cane, is a damn fine song. Live, it's even better. Live with Peter Mulvey and Kris Delmhorst, it is smoking hot. Mm mm mm. (This observation brought to you by last night's Redbird show.)

And now, meme #1. sisabet ( Read more... )

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This evening before the Jeffrey Foucault show, renenet and I decided that two makes a pattern as far as h.l and crazy straight girls goes. The upshot of this conversation was: no more getting hung up on crazy straight girls. We're going to try to ease me out of both the crazy and the straight at once, but at this point I'd settle for one out of two ( Read more... )

Remember how I was saying I need to see more live shows? This may be the season. There are at least nine shows that I really want to see coming to or near town in the next six weeks: Susan Werner, Garrison Starr, death cab for cutie, Rainer Maria, The Frames (o/f Damien Rice, which is a plus, although I'd go see them anyway), The Jealous Sound, ( Read more... )