la petite mort

deeds done dirt cheap today

the deadline for submission for next year's SPARK festival is Friday, I was prodded this AM.
edited and polished a bit of Gregory and I's last recording from Mother Fools in dilligent behavior. and just did the dishes.

deadlines are not a feature of my professional life, in an administrative sense.
there isn't much you would call "administrative" in my life these days. and hooray for that!

Greg is happy with the results of my efforts, so it's a keeper then. for my tastes, the marimba samples sounded too bright. this might be listened to on headphones if listened to at all.

T-Bone Burnette in a recent interview talked about how musicians and producers might be good fellows and gals to not punish the listener. something along the lines of musicians ruining peoples hearing being akin to cobblers cutting off peoples feet!

lucked out squeaking in the fixer upper tracks! whether it increases our chances of a better performance slot remains to be seen. that may be a less than petite death. my preference would be to do our thing in a modest size hall with a seated attentive audience. fingers crossed. our past gig in the nightclub is the less-kind but likely scenario, but that would be fine too.

listen:
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
Richard Thompson
Heartless Bastards
Dub Trio
RTQE


read:
going to the library tomorrow, whooee

notime

to write
deeds not words

nodust

seems like it's busy-busy-busy as we get into the fall season.
a mad rush of social activities and lotsa fun things.

last night there was a wedding and reception at the bar for one of our bartenders. quite the party - I missed the ceremony with coming from playing in Stoughton with the guys on the afternoon. did manage to get all dressed up and roll in around 7:30 but only made it until 10ish thanks to that dastardly Lake Louis Scotch Ale! and then some PBR - hoo hoo A most pleasant celebratory time tho. early to bed it was. today is another fullish one. the usual spit-shine of the bar (done) and picking tracks to play on WORT tonight. that EVP coffee is gonna keep me buzzing tho.
-zoom-

listen:
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Björk - Homogenic
müm - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy

fallingness

Hiya,

Welcome to fall, my right favorite season. (2nd being Spring)
The leaves are gathering beneath our hooves and the sound of geese flyovers are frequent in the ambience.
It's super sleeping weather, but as of late it's getting to be 'fall asleep on the couch and wake up with that book on the floor' and other behaviors of lassitude.
Thankful to be getting around cycling everywhere still. Winter biking may be happening this year. I'm tough now, yeah.

Another thing is I just can't get enough to eat. It's a struggle with the current vegitarian discipline. With this hunger, how long until I cave in and eat fleshy parts of creatures that walk and have faces?

Music is being played every week or so with the guys in Stoughton. This Saturday is going to be another Primordial Soup jam, lucky me.

Things have been up and down at work. Some busy nites, many slow. The slow nights are difficult. Feels like the future is uncertain for me now. I thought people would always want to come out to drink and listen to music. I'm pretty sure the sun will rise tomorrow.

Leading a boring life, with my lack of consumer confidence and all. As far as the exchange of money defines one's identity. Seldom eat out and currently no TV/DVD option. Cooking and reading.

It's time for lunch, offline.

listen:
bjork - vespertine
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Heartless Bastards - All This Time
(yes Michelle, I like 'chick singers')
Tom Waits - live '08 (NPR All Songs Considered), Bone Machine
Tortoise - Standards, A Lazarus Taxon

read:
National Geo
Tape Op
J. G. Bennett - The Dramatic Universe series 1 (Hazard)
lotsa news online
..I need a fun book!