Weekend of awesome

[jazzfish]

Things that deserve their own post but probably won't get one:

• Girlyman at Jammin' Java
  
• Reconnecting with zaph after twelve years
  
• Dar Williams at the Birchmere (she played the fish song! And also two new songs, and uttered the words "working on my seventh studio album")
  
• Gingerbread pancakes (sogood but very very thick)
  
• Salmon melts (like tuna melts but with tasty salmons instead)
  
• Still having close to $100 worth of credit at Richard McKay, after spending several hours there with uilos
  
• The first few episodes of Due South, with Paul "Geoffrey Tenant" Gross ("That's the last time he fishes over the limit!")
  
• Richard Shindell at Jammin' Java, followed by dessert at Amphora, with elf
  
• Getting stretches from ancientsong to correct the tightness and hurting I've had in my shoulder for, oh, months now

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Supposing I were to throw another reading, and it were to be on either the first or the eighth of December. Interested? Coming? One date better than the other for you?

Comments

Where is there a Richard MCKay around here?

[stormking.livejournal.com]

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Re: Where is there a Richard MCKay around here?

[jazzfish]

Nowhere, really. It's in Manassas. Go out 66 to 234 Business, take that to the south past Manassas Mall, and McKay's on your left.

There used to be one at 29 and 28 in Virginia but it closed shortly before I moved here. Dammit.

[ancientsong.livejournal.com]

First, you're welcome. Glad I could help. Keep up the stretches and the rest of the stuff and I have a feeling you'll be fine.

Second, wahhhh, I can't make either of those dates for a reading. Someday I will, I promise but December is a really big gig month so I'm busy pretty much every day/evening of every weekend.

As for Dar, did she sing the christians and the pagans? I LOVE that song and am sorry that I missed her.

[jazzfish]

Between the Advil and the stretching it's feeling better already. Thanks.

Phooey. One of these days.

No Xians/Pagans, but she /did/ play "When I Was a Boy." zaph mentioned that she played an almost totally different set on Satyrday night, so it probably got played then.

[zaph.livejournal.com]

Yup, she played it Saturday. She only repeated The One Who Knows, Mercy of the Fallen, February, and When I Was a Boy (in that order).

[heptadecagram.livejournal.com]

Hm, might be interested. red_lynx and I have office dinners both days. The first's is during the middle of the day, the eighth's is at night.

[qtrnca.livejournal.com]

8th, please!

[muzikmaker21.livejournal.com]

So, what you're saying is that I missed GIRLYMAN?!?!! At one of my favorite venues EVAR?!?!?!?!?!


::Cries::

[jazzfish]

Um.

Er.

Yes?

*passes handkerchief*

[muzikmaker21.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Just for that, I'll not hold you responsible for this one.

[desfido.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in doing the reading, assuming I have time then (which I hope to). December 8th would be better for me, since I already promised people that I'd do stuff on Dec 1 if I have time, and I'd definitely not have time for both that and the reading (even assuming they don't conflict).

On a note more related to the first bit, I have some random free iTunes stuff, and I was thinking about maybe getting some Dar Williams stuff w/ it. My favorite things I've heard by her so far are probably "That Was Pompeii", "Wilder Than Her", "As Cool As I Am", "February", in roughly that order. Any recommendations, either in terms of other songs, or albums (eg, "Mortal City" vs that live album vs "What Do You Hear In These Sounds" vs something else)?

[jazzfish]

Every Dar album except for "My Better Self" and "Out There Live" has been My Favorite Dar Album at some point, so I may not be the best recommender.

Based on your list, though, I'd go for _Mortal City_ or _The Honesty Room_. (Whole albums over individual songs.) _Honesty Room_ is uneven but has some works of utter brilliance ("Mark Rothko Song," "I Love, I Love"); "Mortal City" is almost entirely Really Good.

All her albums are quite good. Except for "My Better Self" which is only pretty good. (But it does have a cover of "Comfortably Numb.") My current absolute favorite Dar song is "Mercy of the Fallen," followed by "Mark Rothko Song" and "Spring Street" and oh, about 90% of them.

Time to go home and put All Dar on shuffle.

[baranoouji.livejournal.com]

8th!

I had wanted to go to Girlyman, but my schedule has been murder. :(

[nixve.livejournal.com]

aww, the fish song! I <3 the fish song :)

[jazzfish]

It's one of my favorites. Like most of them. :)

[selki.livejournal.com]

Interested in either. 8th possibly more likely for actual attendance. Partly depends on travel.

[selki.livejournal.com]

Belay that, 1st now better for me. I've been asked to host a Soup and Sing the 8th, though I won't if that would conflict with your reading.

[jazzfish]

Eep, sorry. Too big a horde saying the eighth was better. Um. Whatever works for you, I guess.

[plumbob78.livejournal.com]

I like reading. could probably make either