Hannah has given a 'note' about my profile. She feels my statement that I feel 'somewhat uncomfortable referring to myself in the 2nd person' should stated 3rd person. Perhaps a stretch for the intended irony Not funny I guess, so I've corrected it. Being defensive of her calling me out on my poor and lacking usage, which was really a joke I forgot about, it gets me to wonder if my 'sense of humor' is getting thru even 1/2 the time. But I know Hannah 'gets' me, so I should be happy with that, but for this blip. Then Gordon tells this one last night:
So a termite walks into a bar
and says
"where is the bartender"
huh huh
It took Tom about 10 seconds to get that. Who is it then with a dull sense of humor..
listen:
Lowell George
The Mic
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
post Labor day post
The end of the 2009 summer draws near, but with very nice weather to enjoy. Along with the weather, I've been enjoying spending time with my dear friend Hannah. She seems to like me, despite my quirks and such. Finding myself in good humor much more, when loneliness stops all kinds of doors swing open. HcT is a great woman, and we are enjoying each other's company with movies, dining options (the near east side is rife) and an actual date last Friday. Houses in Motion played & we sat up in the balcony an bobbed heads, both prolly too tired to shake booty with the youngsters.
Replaced my rear bicycle tire in Aug, which was in a bald way. In other DIY mechanical activities, also put brake shoes on the rear - some cretin actually stole them from where I was parked at work. Bike thieves carry metric allen wrenches!
Worth blathering about was the Zappa plays Zappa set in Milwaukee attended 3 weeks ago. It was mind-bending. That Dweezil spawn o' Frank sho can play that geetar. The whole band was fantastic. Inca Roads! Black Page! and many other favorites. A pal is the guitar/sax tech and enabled Joe A. and I to bear witness to this event of true musical greatness. Dined on some Mexican entrees enroute. They were very reasonably priced too, much like the concert - I had a PBR tall boy and a couple soda-corn-syrupy-treats, just to attempt tp pump a lil' survival juice into the wallets of Milwaukee service industry brothers and sisters you understand.
The trio of dilettantery is gearing up for our 1st performing in front of people. In about 3 weeks we'll be proving we can play a reasonably tight and entertaining set. It's thankfully a party environment, no pressure really.
listen:
Ellery Eskelin trio - 1 Great Night...Live
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Jumbo's Killercrane - The Slow Decay
Dub Trio - Cool Out and Co-exist
lots of Tom Waits
a little John, Paul, George & Ringo
crickets
read:
David Sedaris - Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Replaced my rear bicycle tire in Aug, which was in a bald way. In other DIY mechanical activities, also put brake shoes on the rear - some cretin actually stole them from where I was parked at work. Bike thieves carry metric allen wrenches!
Worth blathering about was the Zappa plays Zappa set in Milwaukee attended 3 weeks ago. It was mind-bending. That Dweezil spawn o' Frank sho can play that geetar. The whole band was fantastic. Inca Roads! Black Page! and many other favorites. A pal is the guitar/sax tech and enabled Joe A. and I to bear witness to this event of true musical greatness. Dined on some Mexican entrees enroute. They were very reasonably priced too, much like the concert - I had a PBR tall boy and a couple soda-corn-syrupy-treats, just to attempt tp pump a lil' survival juice into the wallets of Milwaukee service industry brothers and sisters you understand.
The trio of dilettantery is gearing up for our 1st performing in front of people. In about 3 weeks we'll be proving we can play a reasonably tight and entertaining set. It's thankfully a party environment, no pressure really.
listen:
Ellery Eskelin trio - 1 Great Night...Live
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Jumbo's Killercrane - The Slow Decay
Dub Trio - Cool Out and Co-exist
lots of Tom Waits
a little John, Paul, George & Ringo
crickets
read:
David Sedaris - Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Saturday, July 11, 2009
blue skies
The weather is really great today, for my day off. 80, sunny and no humidity. Just came in from a trip to a neighborhood festival, but the blazing sun did me in. It will certainly be nicer out there once the sun hits the (somewhat distant) treeline and buildings on the Ave facing west.
The Flat Tire taps they were tasty.
Best part of the trip was the exploratory zig-zag along the river front. Last years flooding kinda wiped out the the landscaping along the riverbank, but it's coming back and I see there are a few little trails forming. It's great having greenspace areas near the homestead.
Tonight looks to be a Mother Fools/Mickeys/Marquette triple M trifecta of live performances. Oboy. I'm seriously hoping to not have to plan for another RTQE tomorrow, tentative dinner and social plans await if not.
Patrick and Sam and drummingTom have made a commitment to stop spending as much time playing songs we know and concentrate on jelling our respective contributions into our own music. I have much hope that we will get there, maybe this year.
Also on Tom's playing out agenda is a gig downtown, 1st on a bill of three groupings. The thing is to be a duo with Lachmund and I for about 45" or so. I may completely pull out the stops and become more or less unhinged at this. Just so you know. It's
Saturday, August 8th
Capitol Lakes Grand Hall
333 W. Main, Madison
7PM (note the early time)
●Lachmund and Hamer duo
followed by, not necessarily in this order:
●Hannah Jon Taylor quartet
●JoAnne Pow!ers quartet with guests from Chicago and Philly
I should note that, once again, some of the best music at the place I work has been cover stuff, imagine that. Pete K and the crew were spot on with his group Shakey doing Neil Young's 'Harvest' yesterday. A superfine turnout of friendly patrons and the music of Neil Young played with heart and gusto. Good times! Can't say much for the late show, but I hung in there until bartime.
And then there's The Gomers and that Gomeroke. They make it a show. I have said, 'hey, if the singer sucks, just listen to the band!' and of course 'they can play anything'
Oh the drama at work, will it never subside? 'nuff said
Am I enjoying my day off? Most certainly.
listen:
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
Thelonius Monk w/John Coltrane
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Bill Monroe
The Flat Tire taps they were tasty.
Best part of the trip was the exploratory zig-zag along the river front. Last years flooding kinda wiped out the the landscaping along the riverbank, but it's coming back and I see there are a few little trails forming. It's great having greenspace areas near the homestead.
Tonight looks to be a Mother Fools/Mickeys/Marquette triple M trifecta of live performances. Oboy. I'm seriously hoping to not have to plan for another RTQE tomorrow, tentative dinner and social plans await if not.
Patrick and Sam and drummingTom have made a commitment to stop spending as much time playing songs we know and concentrate on jelling our respective contributions into our own music. I have much hope that we will get there, maybe this year.
Also on Tom's playing out agenda is a gig downtown, 1st on a bill of three groupings. The thing is to be a duo with Lachmund and I for about 45" or so. I may completely pull out the stops and become more or less unhinged at this. Just so you know. It's
Saturday, August 8th
Capitol Lakes Grand Hall
333 W. Main, Madison
7PM (note the early time)
●Lachmund and Hamer duo
followed by, not necessarily in this order:
●Hannah Jon Taylor quartet
●JoAnne Pow!ers quartet with guests from Chicago and Philly
I should note that, once again, some of the best music at the place I work has been cover stuff, imagine that. Pete K and the crew were spot on with his group Shakey doing Neil Young's 'Harvest' yesterday. A superfine turnout of friendly patrons and the music of Neil Young played with heart and gusto. Good times! Can't say much for the late show, but I hung in there until bartime.
And then there's The Gomers and that Gomeroke. They make it a show. I have said, 'hey, if the singer sucks, just listen to the band!' and of course 'they can play anything'
Oh the drama at work, will it never subside? 'nuff said
Am I enjoying my day off? Most certainly.
listen:
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
Thelonius Monk w/John Coltrane
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Bill Monroe
Saturday, July 4, 2009
wham wham wham
Tonight's late night club-sitting oeuvre was festooned with steel barrels as percussion. Old school industrial. I should know, about 1991 I was doing this too - blame it on Skinny Puppy...and Jamie Muir in King Crimson 1972. From him came the loops of heavy chain in each hand. Thrash, thrash. Ah, the good old days.
10.5 hours of door and 3+ of clean/setup this morning, that's all I've got.
listen:
(in between sets)
Dub Trio
Heartless Bastards
the bartenders played these, bless 'em
(this morning)
Richard Thompson - Amnesia
Dub Trio haha
(this afternoon)
múm
birds
10.5 hours of door and 3+ of clean/setup this morning, that's all I've got.
listen:
(in between sets)
Dub Trio
Heartless Bastards
the bartenders played these, bless 'em
(this morning)
Richard Thompson - Amnesia
Dub Trio haha
(this afternoon)
múm
birds
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
I like it, I play it?
I've been thinking (overthinking?) about the criteria for my RTQE playlists, with another one coming up this Sun the 5th. Gregory states at the top of each program the description:
A program of electronic, experimental, ethnic, classical and improvised conduct for the discerning survivor of the 20th century
Greg has a mission which I admire, but have trouble fulfilling: to play music that is new and to some degree noteworthy, sometimes regardless of whether it might be something listened to 'recreationally'. Let's just say his degree of having an open mind is something I admire. I mainly play things I listen to purely for their enjoyment. I do try to include some artists I'm not familiar with, who have new releases which dropped in the last 6-9 months. It's all about the 'new' for some listeners, and certainly for the artists/labels who submit their work hoping for airplay.
So when I start to overthink this, which only muddies things up, remember: it's only recordings of music, after all. And everything's new to somebody.
listen:
múm - live 2007
Adrian Belew - Desire Caught by the Tail
Amon Tobin - The Foley Room
Oregon - live 1972
A program of electronic, experimental, ethnic, classical and improvised conduct for the discerning survivor of the 20th century
Greg has a mission which I admire, but have trouble fulfilling: to play music that is new and to some degree noteworthy, sometimes regardless of whether it might be something listened to 'recreationally'. Let's just say his degree of having an open mind is something I admire. I mainly play things I listen to purely for their enjoyment. I do try to include some artists I'm not familiar with, who have new releases which dropped in the last 6-9 months. It's all about the 'new' for some listeners, and certainly for the artists/labels who submit their work hoping for airplay.
So when I start to overthink this, which only muddies things up, remember: it's only recordings of music, after all. And everything's new to somebody.
listen:
múm - live 2007
Adrian Belew - Desire Caught by the Tail
Amon Tobin - The Foley Room
Oregon - live 1972
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sunday and gorgeousness
The front came thru WI last night, and now we have beautiful weatha. Yay!
Dispatched the clean and set-up of the club super early, so now I can get a nap in b4 Sam whisks us out to Stoughton and jammage, drumming, cavorting, dogs and nature.
listen:
björk - Voltaic
Richard and Linda Thompson
Dub Trio - New Heavy
Crim - The Power to Believe
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
read:
Nat'l Geo July
NY Times
Dispatched the clean and set-up of the club super early, so now I can get a nap in b4 Sam whisks us out to Stoughton and jammage, drumming, cavorting, dogs and nature.
listen:
björk - Voltaic
Richard and Linda Thompson
Dub Trio - New Heavy
Crim - The Power to Believe
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
read:
Nat'l Geo July
NY Times
Monday, June 22, 2009
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