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• Music, Walks with the dogs

  Confounding Expectations

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tuesday was a chilly day, with the temperature in the forties, and an obligingly cold rain soaked the Resident Dogs on our evening walk.  By the time I took the Short-term Dog for a walk it had stopped raining but it still felt like winter to me.  Yesterday was warmer and dry so I went for [...]

• Music

  Oh Yes

  04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Weezer’s new album is out 6/24.  And, oh my, what’s up with that cowboy hat?
  In other music news, for some reason I’ve been in a mood to listen to Terence Trent D’Arby today.  TTD is the poor man’s Prince.  I’ve never much cared for Prince.

• Music

  Commercial Opportunity

  04.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In the Black Sabbath song “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, there is a moment towards the middle of the song, after the second jazzy acoustic interlude and leading up to the solo, where Ozzy shouts “You bastards!”.  Just that snippet would make a great cell phone ringtone.  I’m not going to go looking for one; I don’t [...]

• Music

  Twice is Coincidence. The Third Time it’s Enemy Action

  02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday morning shuffle chose to cue Django Reinhardt’s “Mystery Pacific”.  I was startled because the previous night the last thing I read before I went to bed was a short story by Alastair Reynolds called “Pacific Mystery”.  Whoa.  I know that there is something about coincidence that is attractive to our brains.  We assume they are [...]

• Books, Music

  Thus a mind is wasted

  02.08.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The greeting banner on my cell phone announces its name as “Vavatch Hub”.  This is a reference to Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas, which is only one of the greatest SF works of our time.  I also have a download of this image of Galaxy M104.  Looks like an Orbital to me, if I squint right.  One day I [...]

• Music

  Stick This in Your Fusebox

  01.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shuffle just cued up AC/DC’s cover of “Baby Please Don’t Go”, which naturally brings to mind the recent release of their Plug Me In DVD box set.  Just about everything on that is a gem (I have footage of some of the earlier shows from other sources and enjoyed them, but the re-mastering for the box set is so [...]

• Music

  I Ain’t Got No Gigs

  01.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m entranced by Lucinda Williams again today; this morning it’s Happy Woman Blues.  There are other plates on the musical menu, however.  I downloaded a two-song e.p. just released by The Accused on their website.  As reluctant as I am to imagine the band without Blaine Cook, the new singer sounds sufficiently like him that it’s not a jarring [...]

• Art, Music

  Seeing and hearing

  01.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The 2008 calendar above my desk here at work shows a different Wayne Thiebaud painting each month.  January displays this.  I like Thiebaud’s work for a sense of fun and detail, but not so much for creepy.  More than two-thirds of the month to go before I can stop looking at the devil’s toy closet.
  This week I have [...]

• Music, Portland

  Stormy Weather

  12.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just walked over to the windows here at the office and it looks like we’re under water.  On the eleventh floor.  It’s been pouring rain lately.  Yesterday evening I drove in the downpour and wished I had not.  We’re used to rain but in these amounts even the locals develop apocalyptic twitches.
  Earlier today I [...]

• Dogs, Music

  Silver bells hangin’ on a string

  11.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We had a house guest this Thanksgiving weekend just past — Camas, a husky-mix with one blue eye and one brown eye.  Camas is a nice dog with a dumb name.  Camas does not like other dogs much, so when his owners want to board him, he stays with us instead of at the dog [...]

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