Alas, no silver pleather. That's one of the new TSA restrictions, doncha know.
I am now in Tina's lovely apartment, after seeing the first five of the 25+ bands at the touch & go festival. I enjoyed parts of each of the sets, but no one was amazing all the way through. Friday highlight was probably the last band, !!! (pronounced chk chk chk), who had the indie hipsters dancing. Had the show been indoors, and had there been a roof, it would have been raised.
Tina hasn't gotten home yet, but I've been awake since 5am EDT, so I may be asleep when she shows up. zzzzz
"The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events," a musical companion to Lemony Snicket's book series, will be in stores October 10. The CD features a song for each of the 13 books in the series plus 2 bonus tracks. The Gothic Archies will perform songs from the CD on solo ukulele at several of Lemony's bookstore appearances this October and November. Check the House of Tomorrow or Lemony's website for confirmed dates. >[link]
Natick High School, here I come!
bounce
Placebo tickets are mine! (And Pete's, Plei's, and Paul's.) And they're playing at a much better venue than the last tour, thank goodness.
Anybody have an opinion on which performances of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor are worth purchasing?
Edit: iTunes has several different performances. Ton Koopman's sucks. He adds flourishes I don't like. Stick to the written version, buddy. Helmut Walcha's is okay, but I wonder if any of these others are worth listening to. (FYI: Wolfgang Rusbaum, Scott Preston, and Hans Fagius, among others)
I'll ask my sister in the morning if there hasn't been any other response, Sean.
I stumbled across the magazine
Paste
last week. Anyone familiar with it? I'm thinking of subscribing - lots of interesting articles, and the sampler cds seem worth it by themselves.
Anybody have an opinion on which performances of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor are?
Are what?
Sorry. I can ask FAQWife when I get back home Monday afternoon.
BLAH! Went back and edited.
We, surprisingly, had a decent draw tonight, despite the UT-OSU game and no real headliner to speak of. One of our better shows, and I taped half of it on iMovie. I'll put it on the interweb when I figure out how to brighten the screen all the way through the movie.
I've been buying a few songs off of iTunes lately, and one of my most recent purchases -- Dave Brubeck's
Take Five
-- I have listened to about ten times in the last 24 hours. It (like many pieces I've purchased recently) is very soothing.
