Two nights ago, I went to see They Might Be Giants in San Francisco. Fourteen years ago today, I went to my first TMBG concert, which I wrote about in my list of most memorable concert experiences. I probably have more memories connected to TMBG songs than to the music of any other band, except possibly The Beatles ( Read more... )

It has been brought to my attention that the last two years on my birthday, I posted saying, "It's good to be the birthday girl." So I couldn't let this year go by without that being said ( Read more... )

( Written earlier at Boston Logan Airport )

Evening number 1: Dinner at the home of xinie, Ben, timothy_tim, and cole_b. It was fabulous to hang out with them. I wish I could take all the wonderful people I know and move them to live near me. But since I can't, I'll have to send some of them letters on the lovely cow Cardamom Cards that Xinie made ( Read more... )

Fun thing: ( Barenaked Ladies concert )

On Thursday night, I went to see Toad the Wet Sprocket at the Saratoga Mountain Winery. Seeing this band in concert is particularly notable because I wasn't familiar with their music until years after they broke up. Toad was big (well, as big as they would get) in the early 90s, during which time I was aware of two of their songs from the radio ( Read more... )

( The trip continues. )

Thanks to everyone who told me I should take some time to relax. That made it a lot easier to spend most of today lazing around. I didn't do any writing, but I spent a bunch of time thinking about The Overworld. I figured out several important things about the plot and the order of events to come in the story.

Last night I went to a concert by ( Read more... )