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Jan. 29th, 2006 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonThe weekend has left me weak--too weak to go to yoga class today :-( I am drowning in snot and being shaken apart by coughing fits. It was a good weekend though. Friday I brought M to the Museum of Science to see the Star Wars exhibit. It was pretty cool--even though I always did thrill more to the world of books than the world of movies, it was pretty powerful, in a way, to see the original props and models and costumes. Plus it was genuinely educational.
Then we went out to dinner at Ole Mexican Grill in Inman and ate delicious food. They also serve a fine mojito there, which I justified drinking while ill because it is an herbal beverage chock full of vitamins. Then home for a night of science fiction on tv and crashing.
Yesterday I met with Nepenthe and we made enormous progress on choreographing a piece for Oddville Vaudeville. I'm totally impressed by how much we accomplished--now we just have to be able to remember it all on stage in a couple of weeks! After that, I went out to the Middle East to see Seven Sunless Days along with Plumerai, Cabiria and Fluttr Effect. I really should have gone home after SSD, I think I'd be ok now if I did, but standing on my feet all night and staying out till all odd hours has set me back in this whole illness thing. But I wanted to spend time with M, who was quite justifiably happy with the show, and I was curious about Cabiria and Fluttr Effect. My thoughts on all the bands: I caught about half of Plumerai's set and liked what I heard, though I wasn't really focused on it. I'd see them again. Cabiria played beautiful music, but as everybody observed, it was a little too slow and sleepy for that point in the night. I would want to see them again perhaps in a seated venue, with a glass of port to savor slowly. Fluttr Effect... I had mixed feelings. There's no doubt at all that they are tremendously talented. I liked many elements of their songs, esp. the vibraphone or xylophone or whatever it was, but I think nearly every song had something in it that didn't sit right with me, the more proggy elements, the guitar solos, an overall somewhat too produced sound. I like my nouveau cabaret music a little rawer, I think--I like to hear a song teeter on the edge of chaos and not be sure if it really will become chaos or not. Cabaret-influenced sounds at their best should feel a bit transgressive or perhaps unbalanced. But then again, my affinity for cabaret sounds springs from my love of Nick Cave. So, I guess I would give them another chance, esp. given how tired I was at that point, but overall I say eh.
I haven't yet figured out the proper balance of volumes and settings when playing my mp3 player through the stereo amp--it tends to have a spacy, bassy sound to it. Man does Lydia Lunch sound fucking scary, even more than usual.
Then we went out to dinner at Ole Mexican Grill in Inman and ate delicious food. They also serve a fine mojito there, which I justified drinking while ill because it is an herbal beverage chock full of vitamins. Then home for a night of science fiction on tv and crashing.
Yesterday I met with Nepenthe and we made enormous progress on choreographing a piece for Oddville Vaudeville. I'm totally impressed by how much we accomplished--now we just have to be able to remember it all on stage in a couple of weeks! After that, I went out to the Middle East to see Seven Sunless Days along with Plumerai, Cabiria and Fluttr Effect. I really should have gone home after SSD, I think I'd be ok now if I did, but standing on my feet all night and staying out till all odd hours has set me back in this whole illness thing. But I wanted to spend time with M, who was quite justifiably happy with the show, and I was curious about Cabiria and Fluttr Effect. My thoughts on all the bands: I caught about half of Plumerai's set and liked what I heard, though I wasn't really focused on it. I'd see them again. Cabiria played beautiful music, but as everybody observed, it was a little too slow and sleepy for that point in the night. I would want to see them again perhaps in a seated venue, with a glass of port to savor slowly. Fluttr Effect... I had mixed feelings. There's no doubt at all that they are tremendously talented. I liked many elements of their songs, esp. the vibraphone or xylophone or whatever it was, but I think nearly every song had something in it that didn't sit right with me, the more proggy elements, the guitar solos, an overall somewhat too produced sound. I like my nouveau cabaret music a little rawer, I think--I like to hear a song teeter on the edge of chaos and not be sure if it really will become chaos or not. Cabaret-influenced sounds at their best should feel a bit transgressive or perhaps unbalanced. But then again, my affinity for cabaret sounds springs from my love of Nick Cave. So, I guess I would give them another chance, esp. given how tired I was at that point, but overall I say eh.
I haven't yet figured out the proper balance of volumes and settings when playing my mp3 player through the stereo amp--it tends to have a spacy, bassy sound to it. Man does Lydia Lunch sound fucking scary, even more than usual.
