thursday/friday random eleven: “burning the use or lose” edition
Okay, sure, it’s Thursday. I’m doing the random tunes thing a day early. It’s my life and my blog. Sue me.
In any case, the reason I’m doing it early is that I’m taking a day off tomorrow and don’t really plan to be on the computer all that much. As I have enough service time to earn a ridiculous amount of annual leave, I once again am stuck with “use of lose” leave in the bank, so I’m spending it on a couple of long weekends before the customary end-of-the-year holiday break. Also, when I’m not out catching spooky pokemon during the Halloween event, I have weekend stuff in meatspace I gotta do.
Even if it means going into Zubat country:
Pokemon puns are fun. While I didn’t actually come up with Rick Gastly first, I think this one might be a chuck original.
Tomorrow, I’m playing a show in Raleigh with the Humdingers at HonorCon. It’s not necessarily “our” crowd (other than the fact that it’s geeks in the Triangle, so there’s probably a bit of crossover), but I think our stuff is pretty universal. If you’re a geek, “Natural 20” is gonna resonate at least a little bit. We’re on at 8:30, so if you’re of the mind and in the area, come on by.
I’ll be back in Richmond Saturday morning sometime, and I’m planning on swinging by the VA Comicon’ big two-day show for a while to take in the scene and catch up with some friends I haven’t seen in a while.
I’m also on the hook to crack the highway barrier with my kid behind the wheel of a car at some point. I’m not worried. She’s way better at this than she thinks she is.
Semi-related to the weekend’s activities, the Harry Potter Alliance, the social action “ministry” of Harry Potter fandom has seen fit to make some of it’s limited edition fundraising wizard rock compilations available for purchase on bandcamp, including last year’s 10th anniversary A Tribute to Harry and the Potters, which features a bunch of wrock friends covering classic HatP tunes, and perhaps also some of my best recorded guitar playing ever on track 15:
Anyway, that’s my weekend and other various and sundry crap. Here’s some tunes outta pandora that aren’t awful, but don’t actually feature my guitar or bass playing:
- “Nothing to Prove” – The Doubleclicks
- “Code Monkey” – Jonathan Coulton
- “All Cats are Grey” – The Cure
- “Heavy Cross” – The Gossip
- “Do You Wanna Hit It” – The Donnas
- “Little Talks” – Of Monsters and Men
- “Eternal Flame” – The Bangles
- “The Hunt” – Grand Magus
- “You Make My Dreams Come True” – Hall & Oates
- “Another Genius Idea from Our Government” – Erase Errata
- “Deceptacon” – Le Tigre
As for today’s random eleven, check out this cool Stranger Things eye makeup that I expect my kid will probably be into:
