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minervacat at 10:05am on 10/11/2008 under fannish:bandish, life or something like it, media:music spam, numbered and lettered lists, personal:photos
minervacat at 10:05am on 10/11/2008 under fannish:bandish, life or something like it, media:music spam, numbered and lettered lists, personal:photosToday, letters instead of numbers:
- I am an avid reader of Ask Metafilter, via Google Reader, because it is sometimes lolariffic and sometimes gross and sometimes completely baffling (but mostly lolariffic), but the point is, yesterday a question about moving to Raleigh/the Triangle led me to several other questions about random cool free-and/or-cheap shit in do in the Triangle, and then on the spur of the moment, shep. and I got in the car and drove 85 miles east to a tiny township south of Wilson, where an elderly farmer has built these huge -- and not-so-huge -- windmills and whirl-i-gigs out of scrap metal.
It was kind of completely unbelievable.
The rest of the set is here. - The internets report to me that Brent Best may be breaking up the Drams ... to get Slobberbone back together. This is only meaningful to me and, liek, six other people on the internets, and it is also of course ridiculous because breaking up the Drams to get Slobberbone back together means kicking two dudes out and then calling their old bassist and asking if he wants to go back on the road. But Brent Best is a supreme example of holy shit most musicians are serious crazycakes, so it doesn't surprise me, exactly. And it's not really a big deal, either, since 2/3rds of the time the Drams sound like Slobberbone recording under a different name anyway, the other third of the time being when there's horns.
- Speaking of Brent Best, the song that's spinning in my head this morning: [The Drams -- "Fireflies"] 5MB, .mp3. see the beauty where you are/appreciate the fireflies, baby, just in case you never see the stars
- I am growing my hair out -- from the short baby bird cut some of you have seen, into ... something else, who knows what, but probably something short-in-back-longer-in-front -- but it's reached that awkward stage that super-curly hair grown out from a short cut reaches, and it looks desperately like I have a poodle on my head. I need a hair cut in the worst way.
- Does anyone on my flist have first-hand knowledge of playing and/or touring with a pedal steel? I have questions about it. Like, does it fold up? Does it just go in a big road case all in one piece? It seems like a super inconvenient instrument to tour with, but plenty of people do it, and we know people who tour with a pedal steel in a van, so it's got to be doable.
- I had an exhausting but utterly lovely weekend, one of those weekends with moments that are so phenomenal that you want to keep them close to your chest. But it was a good weekend.
- Graham Harrell. That's all. He is the quarterback for Texas Tech and he is my favorite.
- I have a sinus infection and it sucks.
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