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Behold, third row right, my sexy face! To be fair, I think I was actually trying to make a face, instead of just being caught in a horrible one as usual.
Also, hey, maybe you are a sexy smart person of the present/future who should be reading this Distance thing to further your career/impress members of your desired gender(s)?
Hello
yes, this is Distance launch event
Patti Smith - “Horses”/”Hey Joe”, Old Grey Whistle Test, 1976
I finally picked up Horses on CD after scrapping all my cassettes back in 2003. I listened to Horses on the way to a wedding last weekend, and Songs in the Key of Life on the way back. I actually found a video of Patti Smith covering “Pasttime Paradise”; unfortunately, it doesn’t really sound… good. To me. The sound of it. Ah well. This cover is better.
Since we are all talking about yé-yé due to Mad Men, here’s my favorite of the bunch, “Laisse Tomber les Filles”by France Gall. Not an original choice, I know, but it’s a fun little “fuck you” song.
The message of the song is “don’t mess around with so many women, it’ll be bad for you”; I don’t think this was followed by the song’s author, Serge Gainsbourg.
JacobTV, “The Body of Your Dreams” (sax + boombox)
I saw a version of this piece for solo piano today, but this sax video is the best audio for the boombox portion.
It’s pretty great.
Seeing eighth blackbird perform a set of minimalist works (including this one) tomorrow. I do actually prefer some of Glass’s later, bigger works (love the 9th symphony), but it should still be fun. Sort of bummed I’m going to miss 8th bb performing Lygeti & In C on Saturday, but it’s for a good cause.
Full program:
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion for sextet (1969)
Morton Feldman: Durations I for flute, violin, cello, piano (1960)
Caleb Burhans: Lullaby for Madeline for marimba (2008)
Jacob TV: The Body of Your Dreams for piano and soundtrack (2003)
———Intermission———
Timo Andres: Crashing through Fences for flute and percussion (2009)
Alvin Lucier: Fidelio Trio for viola, cello and piano (1987)
David Lang: these broken wings for sextet (2007)
John Cage on a 1960s quiz show. And honestly, why wouldn’t John Cage be on a 1960s quiz show?
Boatneck city.
I do occasionally finish knitting things. Both of these were off the needles for months unto years, with only ends to be woven in (though I actually ended up substantially reknitting Calm to make it longer).
Also, fun fact: when you have your cinematographer boyfriend take pictures of you, he will adjust all the lights 15 times, move you around the room, and then not warn you when he takes the pic, resulting in a series of stupid facial expressions.
Lucia di Lammermoor tonight at the Lyric. Think “Romeo and Juliet”, but Scottish, only written by an Italian. Apparently at some point, Scotland was so trendy in Europe (apparently like Japan to nerdy U.S. kids in the 1990s) that writing a Scottish opera was a great way to guarantee a hit.
Murders: 1, plus several before the time of the opera.
Suicides: 1, or perhaps 2, if you count going all kinds of crazy and then dying of a broken heart after killing your new husband to also be a suicide.
Varieties of tartan: 3, by my count
Tricking your sister into thinking her lover, your enemy, has betrayed her and convincing her to marry someone politically advantageous to you without checking to see if aforementioned lover/enemy might come back from another country during the wedding: ill-advised, believe it or not
Anyhow, here’s Anna Netrebko doing the mad scene from Lucia at the Met a couple years back. Ignore the incorrect aspect ratio and focus on the voice.
CHICAGO — So that was a crazy Friday.
Our pals at UPS gave us the bad news that a couple of our first wholesale deliveries were being delayed. So we overnighted a new shipment for our friends at The Hub in Springfield, Mo. (fingers crossed) and threw M. Phillip’s overnight bag together with a weekend’s worth of beans for Caffe Streets in Chicago.
Yes, we put the coffee and Michael on a plane to Chicago. And he made it before they closed Friday night. (We love logistics.) So, he’ll be there for the weekend (and likely a little longer given that it was a one-way ticket). So get after it folks! If you are in Chicago, your Handsome Weekend is saved. Visit Michael (and offer him a place to stay, a ride, or hot meal) at Caffe Streets, 1750 W. Division. (click for their homepage)
I WANNA BENCHPRESS A BEAR, BISH.
This would be why I would start lifting weights. :D
Awhile back, I did a session or two with a trainer at my gym. She was a sweet, skinny blonde lady, not long out of college.
I mentioned that I was more interested in strength building than wright loss. She lectured me about my BMI (a famously oversimplified metric), gave me high-rep, low weight exercises, and put me on an elliptical for 20 minutes.
I didn’t return. Now I train solo. I can’t yet do a full pushup on the ground, or anywhere near an unassisted pullup, but I will someday. And I can deadlift 115 (4 reps only right now, give me time), which makes me regret the years of group classes spent using 18 lb. bars and being bored.
Lift heavy, ladies.
(Source: budgiebazooka, via leahj)
