strictly roots.
One okay thing to do on a Saturday night when you don’t feel like seeing people but you’re a little lost for things to do at home is to download video files from Ubuweb and watch sweet things like Beckett’s “Not I.” Which is precisely what I did last night. Also, read a bunch from [...]
This weekend the things are:
The Great Pumpkin Friday night.
Maybe PIMBA marching band championships Saturday night? We’ll see.
Friend/amazing singer/songwriter Des Ark Sunday night at ModernFormations. Green Milk From the Planet Orange is playing with Centipede at GA the same night; I might try to hit all three.
Me? I’ve been chillin’, listening to Astral Weeks and [...]
Where DOES the time go?
Apparently I’ve done and seen nothing in the past week worth talking about. Maybe I should start re-telling old stories or something. No really: I watched Masculin/Feminin this weekend. And I watched the Steelers get outplayed and still almost-but-not-quite pull off a win. I played Boggle and successfully convinced the room [...]
Today I will purchase my ticket to see Negativland. That is, in case you hadn’t heard, Halloween night at the Kelly-Strayhorn on Penn Ave. in East Liberty. Count me super stoked.
Otherwise, further homework, which has made me a dull boy (well, that and gross time mismanagement). And I might try to check out some of [...]
Take the Post-Gazette Comics Survey. Make sure they don’t do away with Mary or “Mutts.” Also, vote for “F-Minus” as the best test comic. Bad late ’90s punk band, good comic.
A certain air temperature, when combined with the smell of diesel fumes, to this day brings to mind nothing other than marching band. Similarly, when I have anxiety dreams, they’re just as likely to be about showing up two weeks into band camp without knowing any of my music or drill as they are to [...]
Seriously, this ratcheting-up of the double entendre in Peanuts of late is making me really uncomfortable.
Also, this week is horribly hectic — barely finished my paper for today for one class, got behind in my reading for the other, got punched by a 14 year old while walking to the grocery store the other day, [...]
I’ve never denied that there are some things I’d be better off not knowing about.
Methinks it’s about time for some brief reviews of things that are new to me lately.
Rhys Chatham: Die Donnergötter. Double LP, released this year by Table of the Elements, whose website has not been working right for the past week or two. This includes some classic Chatham guitar pieces — pre-Branca drones with consistent pounding [...]
The Evens played CMU on Friday, providing one of the most uncomfortable concert experiences I’ve lived through. Ian was seemingly unhappy with the lack of energy being expounded by the audience and made no effort to mask this fact (”What’s WRONG, guys?” he asks. “Did you have a bad day or something?”) (No, we’re all [...]