Monthly Archives: February 2007

Fifty-two Timer

Today, everybody in the office received an identical heart-shaped box of chocolates with the words "Just For You" printed, just beneath a picture of a rose, on the top.

Start Your iPods

Since I was out sick yesterday (and should be today!), the work week starts on Tuesday:

  1. Steely Dan - My Old School
  2. The Pernice Brothers - Sometimes I Remember. The Curiest guitar solo that Robert Smith never played
  3. Cutouts - pink
  4. The Cure - Untitled
  5. Led Zeppelin - Sick Again
  6. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Mary Had a Little Lamb. gack
  7. Van Morrison - Come Running
  8. Radiohead - Yes I Am
  9. Alison Krauss - That Makes One of Us
  10. Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust

Well that sucked.

David Rawlings Machine

Last night at the Cat's Cradle.

Sony P7

It's just like seeing Gillian Welch - so it was great - except that when they're billed as the David Rawlings Machine, David chooses the songs and sings lead on most of them.

It looked like they weren't used to playing a lot of them and there wasn't a set list, so Gillian was often left scrambling to get her capo in the right place, after figuring out what song David had just started.

They did a few proper Gillian Welch songs, including the 'original' version of "Elvis Presley Blues", which David sings. But mostly they did covers, new and old - but all in that same old-school country/folk style: they opened with Dylan's "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" (sadly, not sung in the voice of Mr T), and closed with his "Queen Jane Approixmately"; they also did a Robyn Hitchcock song "Luminous Rose" (though Robyn's high notes proved to be out of reach for either of them), and they did a song Rawlings co-wrote with Ryan Adams, "To Be Young".

The place was packed.

Good stuff.

OMG. Just End Already!

Today's the endless Friday afternoon. I'm at a natural stopping point on the project I'm assigned to. There's nothing interesting on the web (especially not this post!). I just want to go home and crack open a beer.

Can somebody please push time forward 45 minutes?

Update: OK, Bent Objects is kind of interesting.