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Jan. 29th, 2006 04:49 pmThe 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.
( photographic evidence of our visit )
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.
( photographic evidence of our visit )
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.
