You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


joe boucher - Nov 07, 2005 2:40:07 pm PST #1087 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

Someone from Arcade Fire was on Soundcheck today. I had it on at work & wasn't paying much attention. Whoever is also in Bell Orchestre.

And a few blocks south of Union Square we find...

COME CELEBRATE THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF HORSES WITH PATTI SMITH AND HER BAND!

Tuesday, November 8th @ 7:00 PM Tower Records Village 692 Broadway (at 4th Street) New York City

Arrive early space is limited. This exclusive event with Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty and Tony Shanahan will include a Q&A, spoken word and some acoustic songs. Following the performance, Patti and the band will be signing copies of Horses/Horses, the 2-CD 30th anniversary edition of the classic Horses album. Each purchase will also include a free, limited edition Horses/Horses poster.

I'm not a big fan of Horses so it would make a lot more sense to go to the free show than to the gig at BAM later in the month, but since I hate crowds and since Tom Verlaine (& Flea) will be playing the latter show I think I'll skip the free one & maybe go to the one at the anti-CBGB venue.

Speaking of BAM (or at least its cool-albeit-rundown satellite Harvey Theater), I just saw The Winter's Tale this weekend. It was excellent & will be in Berkeley this week and in DC next week. We had $60 seats because we waited until the last minute & that's what was left. I thought it was worth it, but I'm a big fan of the company. If any Bayistas go I think you'll be glad, but I'm not gonna try to talk you into spending $65/seat. (One price & it's $65 -- WTF?) On the other hand DC theater fans should not miss it for $25.

These aren't your mother's hot curlers. The less work-friendly version. I think I have to root for Poland. Or maybe Austria. There's curling in Spain?


dw - Nov 07, 2005 2:43:01 pm PST #1088 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval

It’s Arcade Fire.

After they played their Seattle show, they walked out of the Paramount (and by walked out I mean they went out the front door) with their instruments and started playing on the street corner.

On another subject entirely, why doesn't Seattle have a Virgin Mega Store? When I lived that year in the UK, I practically lived at the Reading location.

One thing that bothers me about Seattle is that the town is really lacking for a destination record store. And by destination I mean either a Megastore or the type of independent/used place where the serendipity keeps you coming back (even if the Championship Vinyl level customer service tries to drive you away).

I used to go down to the Tower Records on Mercer once a month with the intent of walking out with something and different. Now that it's moved and had its soul sucked out of it, though, NSM.


IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 07, 2005 5:38:51 pm PST #1089 of 10003
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel

Mine, too, although I spell "favorite" differently.

Not differently, WROUNG!

I just saw The Winter's Tale this weekend. It was excellent & will be in Berkeley this week and in DC next week. We had $60 seats because we waited until the last minute & that's what was left. I thought it was worth it, but I'm a big fan of the company.

I came within a hairsbreadth of seeing that production at the Dublin Theatre Festival. A friend went and said it was the best thing she saw there.


Michele T. - Nov 07, 2005 5:40:29 pm PST #1090 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Speaking of BAM (or at least its cool-albeit-rundown satellite Harvey Theater)

Pedant alert: The Harvey is not a satellite of BAM, it is a part of BAM, which considers the Gilman Opera House and the Harvey to be equal theaters, if for different-sized audiences. And there's no albeit about it -- the Harvey was intentionally renovated to look like that, for the run of Peter Brooks's adaptation of the Mahabharata.

I will say that every time I attend a performance and sit in the Harvey's legendarily uncomfortable seats, I am filled with a new awe and respect for those hardy Brooks fans who signed up for a nine hour avant-garde production there. They didn't know what they were in for, and they had to come back a second night. That's a commitment to the arts!


Michele T. - Nov 07, 2005 5:42:32 pm PST #1091 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Hec, I saw that piece, and then I was really sad with myself that my first reaction was "he covered Dr Wu?"

David Kamp, who co-wrote the book, was a Spy intern when we were in college (he was a few years ahead of me), and famous for his ability to drop that fact into any conversation within fifteen minutes. Although, really, looking back, it's hard to blame him.


joe boucher - Nov 07, 2005 7:38:05 pm PST #1092 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

Per dictionary.com: sat·el·lite n.

1. A minor structure accompanying a more important or larger one

The Harvey may be on equal footing with BAM's main building organizationally and artistically but it's separate and smaller so I stand by my description of it as a satellite. No value judgment was intended. Ditto with the rundown description. For those of you who haven't been there it was like describing Don Johnson's Miame Vice look (and all the unfortunate stubbles it inspired) as scruffy. It leaves out the intentional aspect but is accurate as far as it goes. And Propeller's Midsummer Night's Dream was so funny that I didn't notice how uncomfortable the cheap seats were until after it was over. I loved Homebody/Kabul, but four plus hours of those seats wasn't easy.

If anyone has any of the Dr. Wu covers I'd love to hear them. I have the original & can send it to Buffistarock if nobody else wants to admit to being a fan of the Dan.

Good night, all.


DavidS - Nov 07, 2005 7:47:33 pm PST #1093 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

On another subject entirely, why doesn't Seattle have a Virgin Mega Store? When I lived that year in the UK, I practically lived at the Reading location.

If it's any consolation, they've really cut the book section down to less than half of what it once was. DVDs are eating up the whole store like a cancer.


erikaj - Nov 08, 2005 4:08:41 am PST #1094 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

Hecubus introduced me to "Horses", iirc. I'm really fond of it. Championship Vinyl customer service, bwah. (of course, I'm kind of the person they dread, apart from never being like "It has that guy? And a blue cover?")


sumi - Nov 08, 2005 5:41:58 am PST #1095 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

So, if you were going to get a small child a small musical instrument - what would you get?

She's going to be five: I'm thinking recorder. . . maybe a harmonica.


joe boucher - Nov 08, 2005 6:03:01 am PST #1096 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

So, if you were going to get a small child a small musical instrument - what would you get?

Contrabass sax. But I have a strange sense of humor. And a lot of disposable income. What with being producer of The Simpsons and King of the Hill and all.