I was thinking about the easy courage
Friday, 28 April, 2006
Spring seems to have arrived in Seattle while we were in Reno last weekend, and it’s made me realize it’s almost a year since we moved into this house. It’s been sunny and warmish and gorgeous, with blooming tulips and lilacs and green growing things, and the light has been coming into the house at a particular angle and of a particular color, like it did when we first moved in about 11 months ago. It’s making me strangely nostalgic, yet motivated.
So I’m especially glad that it was slow at work this week and I got to leave early yesterday and take all of today off, staying home and doing yardwork. Dogs laid around in the sun and watched me crawl around in bushes and get stabbed by holly leaves. I weeded and trimmed and I installed fence and my new compost maker, and then I decided I didn’t like its location and now I have to move it.
It’s also especially good that it’s nice right now because G’s brother and sister-in-law as well as his dad and stepmom are here, so we have lovely weather for walking around beautiful Seattle and looking at colorful vegetables and sparkly water and also cute shoes and fancy clothes. We also have weather and, now, room in the backyard, since I pruned, for the inaugural barbecue of the year: halibut cheek tacos. Turns out halibut cheeks don’t grill so well, but I’ll still post it on Kitchenisms soon.
(Song: “Spring Street,” Dar Williams)
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In the catalog under mood/happy; food; gardens; weather
Got enough fuel to reach the moon
Thursday, 20 April, 2006
A work friend has a WordPress blog with functional comment code, so I got him to send me the code and someday soon I hope I’ll get a chance to try to plug it in here and see if I can make it work. I’m giving up on the comment popup and just aiming for a comment page.
Sorry it’s taking so long to fix.
(Song: Jon Benjamin Band, “What We Need More Of Is Science”)
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In the catalog under meta
There’s glass in my thermos and blood on my jeans
A few weeks ago, several of my favorite bands ever came out with new albums. So, mini reviews!
Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
This album reminds me a lot of Blacklisted, which I absolutely adore. I have listened to almost* nothing but Fox Confessor for the past week. My favorites are “Margaret vs. Pauline” (track 1), “Star Witness” (track 2), “A Widow’s Toast” (track 4), “John Saw That Number” (track 7), and “The Needle Has Landed” (track 12).
Eef Barzelay (of Clem Snide), Bitter Honey
I’ve listened to this one a few times, and I pretty much wish it were a Clem Snide album instead of a solo album. I love Eef, my long-lost brother, but Eef+guitar isn’t quite as snarky as Eef+whole band, and his lyrics are as snarky as normal, so it doesn’t quite match up.
Rhett Miller, The Believer
This album isn’t very good.
Can you believe I just said that about Rhett?
It’s just not very good. He needs the Old 97s. Especially Murry, the bassist. We saw Rhett live a few weeks ago and his bassist apparently had a crappy amp, or something; I don’t know what it was but he sounded terrible. It was really unpleasant. The songs from the album are better live than they are on the album, which isn’t saying much because they are kind of lifeless and flat on the album. And then he does that hip thing at the live show so everything is better.
*I have also listened to Paul Burch’s album Fool For Love. If Paul Burch and Neko had babies, they would make my head explode with the awesome singingness.
(song: “Star Witness,” Neko Case)