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jazzfishWeekend already, sheesh. Some weeks.
Last weekend was ... I was going to say 'quiet' but that's not true at all, it just wasn't in any way stressful. Satyrday there were games in New West followed by some Rock Banding. I stumbled through vocals on a handful of tracks (including Werewolves of London, which according to semilocal J-- sounds like Sweet Home Alabama, argh) and acquitted myself somewhat better on guitar, and we convinceduilos to sing "Eye of the Tiger" and "Carry On My Wayward Son," which she did quite well. Good times all around.
Sunday we drove down to Seattle to see Tylan (sounds like Thailand and not Dylan, which is not what I'd expected), and also to spend some time with Karawynn and Jak. Karawynn cooked the only broccoli I have ever been able to eat (lightly pan-fried with a ton of garlic and some red pepper flakes), and Jak made the best creme brulee I have ever had the good fortune to get my mouth around; between that and just getting to hang out for a couple of hours it was an excellent trip even without the concert. The show itself was good but not great. I get the sense that Ty's still finding her feet in doing solo shows. She played mostly stuff from her solo album, with a handful of her Girlyman songs ("The House Song," "The Person You Want," one or two others). Still well worth the seeing.
Last night we saw a cheery Britpop band called Veronica Falls and their opener, a SF grrlpunk band called Brilliant Colors. I still have "Teenage" stuck in my head. Good times, and since both bands had two CDs and they were $10 each, we have a bunch of new music for the drive down to Seattle today.
Sometime during last week I utterly devoured book 1 of Walter Jon Williams's space opera epic Dread Empire's Fall. Very good stuff if you're looking for space opera. It's... how did Jo put it? "The empire is ruled by the truth of the Praxis, which forbids things likely to lead to boring singularities (no AI, no nanotech, no uploading, no immortality, etc.) while promoting things likely to lead to space-opera (spaceships, space navies, space stations, conquest of aliens, aristocracy, exploration of wormholes etc.)." Pretty much. It's 400 pp in paperback; roughly the first 250 pp are buildup and worldbuilding (very good buildup and entertaining worldbuilding!). Then there's an extremely tense 30pp where the rebellion gets underway, and the book is off and rolling. The only reason I haven't plowed straight through the other two is that they're in transit from Chapters. Recommended.
Last weekend was ... I was going to say 'quiet' but that's not true at all, it just wasn't in any way stressful. Satyrday there were games in New West followed by some Rock Banding. I stumbled through vocals on a handful of tracks (including Werewolves of London, which according to semilocal J-- sounds like Sweet Home Alabama, argh) and acquitted myself somewhat better on guitar, and we convinced
uilos to sing "Eye of the Tiger" and "Carry On My Wayward Son," which she did quite well. Good times all around.Sunday we drove down to Seattle to see Tylan (sounds like Thailand and not Dylan, which is not what I'd expected), and also to spend some time with Karawynn and Jak. Karawynn cooked the only broccoli I have ever been able to eat (lightly pan-fried with a ton of garlic and some red pepper flakes), and Jak made the best creme brulee I have ever had the good fortune to get my mouth around; between that and just getting to hang out for a couple of hours it was an excellent trip even without the concert. The show itself was good but not great. I get the sense that Ty's still finding her feet in doing solo shows. She played mostly stuff from her solo album, with a handful of her Girlyman songs ("The House Song," "The Person You Want," one or two others). Still well worth the seeing.
Last night we saw a cheery Britpop band called Veronica Falls and their opener, a SF grrlpunk band called Brilliant Colors. I still have "Teenage" stuck in my head. Good times, and since both bands had two CDs and they were $10 each, we have a bunch of new music for the drive down to Seattle today.
Sometime during last week I utterly devoured book 1 of Walter Jon Williams's space opera epic Dread Empire's Fall. Very good stuff if you're looking for space opera. It's... how did Jo put it? "The empire is ruled by the truth of the Praxis, which forbids things likely to lead to boring singularities (no AI, no nanotech, no uploading, no immortality, etc.) while promoting things likely to lead to space-opera (spaceships, space navies, space stations, conquest of aliens, aristocracy, exploration of wormholes etc.)." Pretty much. It's 400 pp in paperback; roughly the first 250 pp are buildup and worldbuilding (very good buildup and entertaining worldbuilding!). Then there's an extremely tense 30pp where the rebellion gets underway, and the book is off and rolling. The only reason I haven't plowed straight through the other two is that they're in transit from Chapters. Recommended.
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Date: 2013-03-24 08:47 am (UTC)And I'm kind of surprised he hasn't done more books in the series, since it sounds like they sold pretty well for MMPBs. Mysterious are the ways of publishers.