friday random elevenish: “little bit o’ whiplash” edition
One could say it’s been an eventful week and change. Apart from the return of she who was long missing, I spent last weekend rocking DragonCon, where we played some pretty good shows, including Saturday’s, which I’d rank amongst the best we’ve played in years. If you were there, I hope you enjoyed it too.
Apart from the excellent shows, we moved a lot of merchandise, made some new fans, saw some cool stuff, drank some excellent mead, and saw lots of friends, old and new: In particular, after being acquainted online for years, I finally got to hang out with Eric and Jen, The Faithful Sidekicks, an excellent acoustic rock duo, in person, and it was just as awesome as I’d hoped it would be. These are a couple of great people who I just clicked with immediately, and am happy to call friends.
Finding good new friends at this point in one’s life is rough, as many of you know, and it feels good when it happens. If only they didn’t live in freakin’ Oregon! (oh well – I guess I have an excuse to make a trip to the PNW one of these days).
Once I got back, of course, sliding back into the normal mundane world is always somewhat of a challenge. That said, I’ve continued to test negative (thanks, Amber and the filk track for the ubiquitous mask enforcement) since returning, have, as of this morning, finally emptied my work inbox of stuff from my absence, written a couple of pretty okay business cases, solved some minor problems in electronic data interchange, and, upon logging off for the day, kept up my physical fitness regimen; mostly hiking this week, to break in some new shoes and avoid getting stuck eight miles away from my car in a rainstorm on my bike; though I’m likely to ride some this afternoon if the weather holds.
I also have absolutely nothing on the agenda for the coming weekend, which is honestly fine with me; the last little while’s been a lot.
As for tunes out of the little black box, some neat, eclectic stuff, going from late 90s progressive metal to 70s folk to Cheech and Chong to Zappa. I’m diggin’ it:
- “Black Flag” – King’s X
- “Lightning Strikes” – Klau Nomi
- “Kool Thing” – Sonic Youth
- “Miles from Nowhere” – Cat Stevens
- “Cheap Sunglasses” – The Sword
- “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Going to Be a Diamond Someday)” – Billy Joe Shaver
- “Stray Cat Strut” – Stray Cats
- “Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls” – White Zombie
- “Splendid Isolation” – Warren Zevon
- “Earache My Eye” – Alice Bowie
- “Could This Be Magic?” – Van Halen
- “Ruby” – Silver Apples
- “Bright Future in Sales” – Fountains of Wayne
- “Andy” – Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
