Brief updates
- 11:13 Experiencing a blast from the past: I have Eve Tokimatsuri songs running through my head now. #
- 11:45 @snidegrrl “The spiders launched to the space station a supply of tasty fruit flies for food” – spiders with orbital capability? Uh-oh. #
- 12:07 Noting that the “post Twitter entries to LJ” script is doing so at wildly varying times of day for some reason. #
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Sun, sea, and soreness
Someday I will learn to keep a stash of ibuprofen at my desk.
Saturday I wanted to do anything but sit on the couch and stare at the DVR. Handily, there was plenty going on in the area, and we ended up catching a free blues festival at the 17th Street oceanfront. Less handily, we ended up parking at the 23rd Street oceanfront and I got my exercise for the weekend in 95-degree weather. I can’t believe I’m not sunburned. But, the music was excellent.
Add in that walking to yesterday’s five-hour cleaning spree in the apartment (2.5 rooms done, yay!) and I am an achy Borg today. Still, I’m pleased with the reasons I got that way, so I’m calling it a win.
Saturday night we ended up as guests of Starr’s parents at a mildly pricey Italian restaurant. The kitchen messed up my order once, and delayed the second attempt; the manager finally comped me the dinner and I think overdid my dessert as apology. With two large cannoli on a plate before me that evening, I’m pretty thankful for all the unplanned exercise.
Today is my mom’s birthday, At first, I was fretting over whether she’d even want to talk to me, but that’s not the right attitude. I want to talk to her, and I’m still commmitted to getting this whole situation worked out in a way that gets her as much of what she wants as is sane.
Good news for today? I just found a bottle of ibuprofen in my glove compartment; and these 90-minute OS X Leopard installs give me lots of time to tap away at the Newton.
Brief updates
- 17:59 Played Guitar Hero 80s on Med. (4 chords) instead of Easy (3). Having a hell of a time keeping track of which finger presses which button. #
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Brief updates
- 17:28 @snidegrrl If only I had a turntable I could hook to the Mac, I would be happy to rip a copy of my Chess album for you. #
- 17:54 @snidegrrl It’s the original, 2-disc, “concept” vinyl album in a black sleeve. Sounded pretty good when I listened to it last (~20 yrs ago). #
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Surrender the Werewolves
I wasn’t a fan of Kid Rock before, but he’s dead to me now. How can a digital mashup of “Werewolves of London” with “Sweet Home Alabama” be a ‘new song’ even with new lyrics? It’s not even a re-recording of the music, he just loaded them both into GarageBand and went with it. Total junk.
On a brighter note, when I switched radio stations, they were playing “Surrender” by Cheap Trick. To my amusement, I found myself muttering the “Guitar Hero 2” chords under my breath during the song: “Red, (beat, beat), orange, (beat, beat), green…” I do it for Dance Dance Revolution cuts too. Anyone else do this?
Event Liszting
Glad I caught the first 40% of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra show two years ago, and the last 80% one year ago, as they’ve decided not to come through Hampton Roads this year. Closest venue will be in Richmond 🙁
Let’s Not Do the Time Warp Again
MTV is planning to remake the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
What a complete and utter waste of time and money. Something as bizarre as RHPS happens once. You can’t make it better; after all we don’t keep going to see it because it’s good. We go to see it specifically because it scrambles one’s brain, rinses it, and hangs it up to dry; all the while supported by Richard O’Brien’s catchy songs, Tim Curry’s matchless hamming, and a theater full of fellow weirdos who, for 100 minutes, are in the same headspace with us.
I wish them good fortune – they’ll need quite a lot of it.
Music of the Spheres
The British Broadcasting Corporation puts on yearly classical music concerts known as The Proms. This year, they’ve added a Doctor Who Prom to the lineup, and you can hear it online at the BBC iPlayer site until August 3rd.
The concerts are audio broadcasts presented by Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones), and include performances of soundtrack music from the new series as well as classical music that “you might find on the Doctor’s MP3 player”. There will also be a special short TV episode on the BBC website called “Music of the Spheres” which, if it’s like the other online trailers and specials, can technically only be watched from computers in Great Britain. (I’m quite sure that my fellow Whovian geeks are working on that as I type this.)
There’s a program online listing the included compositions. If you’re interested in orchestral music, enjoy!
EDIT: Aaaaand the online player just locked up on me. I am having a day of Internet servers crashing repeatedly. With luck, they’ll get it fixed.
EDIT 2: ‘Tis back. Clearly, the server couldn’t handle the Doctor spamming Moonfire.
A-one, and a-two…
So who was I listening to in the car on the way to work today?
The Dresden Dolls and OreSkaBand. I would have liked to see OreSkaBand when they were here this week, but I couldn’t exaclty take Tuesday off 🙁
I blame my musical taste on my mother, who tricked me into liking classical and folk in addition to the rock I got off the radio; and Tom Monaghan, who ate little more than ramen through his college years in order to acquire a huge and supremely eclectic CD collection.
When someone asks me what they’re likely to find on my iPod, I answer “almost anything from a Bach symphony to Japanese bubblegum punk.”
Walked a mile-and-a-half today. I really need to do this earlier in the morning before the mercury tops 80.
