friday random elevenish twenty-one: “my marriage is old enough to drink” edition
Yes, this post will go up Friday, but I am writing it, as usual, on Thursday, which, as I indicate in the title, is my twenty-first wedding anniversary. Not much is going to happen on Thursday, because dance class, but the plan is go go out for dinner on Friday; I’m thinking Ammo Brewing, because I’ve been wanting to go there for a while and they’ve got what looks like a great menu, but it could change; one never knows.
Anyway, I did, Wednesday night at Open Mic (when my wife was absent, again, because dance class), play a tune celebrating things, which went over well enough. I remain very happy, even after these two decades and change (depending on how far you’re looking back…).
Otherwise…
Open Mic this month was, as usual, pretty great. It’s such a privilege, even when I play a pretty good set myself, to be upstaged so consistently by so many talented performers. If I was the kind of guy who went aroudn talking about such things, this is a case where I could say I’m truly blessed to be part of something special.
Continuing the music theme; as I’d mentioned previously, I’m sitting in with the ‘Riffs at Retro Daddio for a couple of sets pn Saturday, which I expect will be fun; it’s been a while since I’ve played with these kids, even with the occasional frustrations.
That is, by my count, two paying music gigs inside one week. One of these decades I’ll manage to make a living at this.
Workwise, I’ve been very busy, sitting in for the boss on a bunch of things this week, and working to massage a tricky acquisition package into somewhat acceptable shape by a deadline, which I beat by a good twenty-four hours, and I’m relatively confident it’ll get through with minimal issues, though we’ll see. The good news is that the rest of the week, apart from a couple of phone calls, I’ll be working much less hard, especially after I actually drove back to the office after-hours and put in another couple of hours’ work on tightening up the package with some spreadsheet magic that wouldn’t leave my brain, and I knew that if I didn’t solve the problem right then, it would occupy way too many brain cycles. Still, it could be worse.
Finally, Phoenix the cat is settling in wonderfully, and to the chagrin of some, has pretty much adopted me as her favorite. I’ll take it.
As far as the playlist goes, I wrestled this extra-long one (to celebrate the previously mentioned anniversary) out of Spotify, which came out decent enough, and includes a new tune from my buddy Mikey, who put out a new record, M, this week, which is pretty great, and includes a bunch of tunes he came up with this year during fawm this year. Anyway, here are the tunes:
- “Psycho Killer (2005 Remaster)” – Talking Heads
- “Amazing Grace” – Ani DiFranco
- “Summertime” – The Sundays
- “Tom’s Diner” – Suzanne Vega (w DNA)
- “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”- Mission of Burma
- “Only Shallow” – My Bloody Valentine
- “Not Too Soon” – Throwing Muses
- “The Freshmen” – The Verbe Pipe
- “I Don’t Want to Wait” – Paula Cole
- “Divorce” – Alex Cameron
- “Pride and the Badge” – Marty Robbins
- “Going Under” – Evanescence
- “Surrender” – Trixter
- “Hungry Eyes” – Eric Carmen
- “All That I’ve Got” – The Used
- “Smooth Criminal” – Alien Ant Farm
- “Love And…” – Mikey Mason
- “Didn’t Know What I Was Looking For” – Better Oblivion Community Center
- “Stay” – Sharon Van Etten
- “Faith” – Bon Iver
- “On The PC” – Tom Smith
