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    Bang on a Can All-Stars with Glenn

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    OK, my final bump on this one. Apparently tickets aren't selling like hotcakes; I got a "groupon" in my email a couple weeks ago for $15 tickets (for the good $32 seats), so I lucked out on that. Lots of seats left...

     

    The SCFA website lists the program as :

     

    The program for the evening will include: Brian Eno Music for Airports 1/1 (arr. Michael Gordon), Michael Gordon For Madeline, Louis Andriessen Workers Union, Glenn Kotche/Steve Reich Clapping Music Variations, Steve Reich Music for Pieces of Wood (arr. David Cossin), Glenn Kotche Snap, Glenn Kotche Mobile

     

    I wonder if he's bringing the crickets this time? :brow

     

    ed: yes, there is a NYC show on Apr 30 in Carnegie Hall...

    The Decemberists

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    I haven't heard any of the new album yet, but I did catch them on Leno last night and I must say I was a little underwhelmed. They played "Down by the Water". Just OK, but less than I expected.

     

    For the record, I think that The Hazards of Love is a fabulous album. Doesn't seem to get a lot of love here.

    Lost on the ipod?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    The post by Vacant Horizon that "i listen to the music so much more when it's on cd rather than on my ipod" got me thinking..

     

    Putting stuff on your ipod is often not the same 'investment' as buying or even burning a CD. I suppose that we wind up with a lot of stuff on our 60 or 120 gigafratz devices that we put there and have never listened to at all. Ever. I've had songs come up on 'random' that I had no idea what they were. I had put them on the ipod in some big 10 CD rip from the library or whatever, and never got around to listening to some.

     

    Well?

    It pays to be a fan of lost...

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Be careful what you wish for!

     

    That's the message that Jorge Garcia, who played unlucky lotto winner Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on Lost, has for the more than 9,000 Mega Millions winners who cashed in by using the mysterious numbers from ABC's hit show.

     

    "The numbers are bad," he writes in a post on his blog headlined, "When Will People Learn?"

     

    The post continues with the words "Enjoy your" and an image of a $100 bill and a $50 bill with the word "cursed" stamped over them.

     

    Mega Millions players who picked the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 – the same numbers that haunted Hurley and the other islanders on Lost – before Tuesday's drawing won about $150 for matching four of six of the jackpot-winning numbers, 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and 42, with 42 being the Mega Ball number.

     

    article here

    Jokes

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Little Johnny goes trick or treating dressed as a pirate. He goes up to a house by himself, rings the doorbell, and says "trick or teat!". Old man comes to the door with some candy, looks over little Johnny's costume, looks around, and seeing no other children says "you're quite the little pirate, there. Where are your buccaneers?"

     

    Little Johnny replies "Right here on the side of my buckin' head, same as yours."

    What Christmas gift are you currently enjoying?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    What a nifty little device! My little orange tree is producing a beautiful crop this year, so I think I need one of these. Do you know where I might find one? Here's a view of my tree's amusing "four-in-a-row" oranges:

    Well, great oranges certainly need a great tool. ;)

     

    Pampered Chef makes it, but you can find it elsewhere on the interweb. I guess that's kinda obvious.

    Tis the season for money laundering

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    Well? Slightly more thought out than pure cash, check, or money order... but there's no concealing how much you love someone (monetarily speaking) on these.

     

    I didn't, but the kids all got some from cousins and grandparents... i-tunes and gamestop topped the list. I wouldn't have minded getting an i-tunes one myself, truth be told.

    What current Christmas TV Commercials Drive You Crazy?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    "Yeah I am asshole and I know exactly where the fuck its at. Not to mention I remember the day you got hired last month cause I was in here dropping another two hundred fucking dollars. If you don't quit following me around with that apron and those creepy measuring tape suspenders I'm going to ask you a moderately difficult question about your so called expertise at which time you will have to call your 26 year old manager to come over here and show us his level of ignorance. Now please go shut down six aisles with your cones and flashing yellow lights so Dick the retired electrician can grab a box of furnace filters off the top shelf because he's the only guy competent enough to operate the ladder on wheels."

    You should definitely have your second cup of coffee before you go shopping.

    What current Christmas TV Commercials Drive You Crazy?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I'd like to meet the hunyock who came up with this idea and challenge him to a Rochambeau match.

     

    one of the educational benefits of VC is all the hip new words I learn here. Most of them make sense, and I can get the meaning from context.

     

    But I admit I'm stumped on hunyock. Little help on that one?

     

    Oh, for the record, I dislike the car commercials as well. Anything that tells me I have to spend 40 grand plus to show someone I love them is simply evil.

     

    In particular, the Kia commercial which is a ripoff / clone commercial to the others is just lame and unnecessary. I know the Koreans are generally into me-too kinds of products, but that commercial is particularly blatant in its lack of originality.

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