60 Things — #10

(someone else likes maps….)

#10. a) Croquet shows

b) at the German House

Camera Obscura poster from Snore & Guzzle dot com

When I get older…

Listening to Sound Opinions yesterday during Magazine Layout Blowout August ‘09 (MLBA’09!) and I was reminded of this song, which I watched on my ma’s TV, performed live on Parliament Hill on Canada Day, with a little patriotic lump in my throat.

K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

Title credit: K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

And your sad eyes reveal, just how badly you feel

Peter Hughes, live at the Bug Jar, Rochester, NY

Crowd particiaption - Fangio, Juan Fangio. Bug Jar, Rochester, NY.

So ends a month of really really great music in upstate New York.

Peter Hughes at the Bug Jar, Rochester, NY, July 5th, 2009
Magnolia Electric Co., Mohawk Lodge, Buffalo, NY, July 16. 2009
and Mark Eitzel, at the most embarrassingly named bar/coffeeshop/restaurant (?) the Lovin’ (ughh) Cup, Henrietta, NY, July 23, 2009

No pictures at the Eitzel show. Seemed too personal to bring out the Cameo EX and its blinding flash. Photogs from the Jason Molina show are still on the roll in my camera.

Title credit: Mark Eitzel, No Easy Way Down

But I don’t think Hank done ‘em this way

I would like to give monodrone a ubiquitous thumbs up for this post. I’m bummed that eMusic unnecessarily added content that can be found at any of the bigger players on the internet.

I don’t download *classics* from eMusic. Like my favourite books, where library borrows won’t do, I want a hard copy of those. eMusic is for trying out new things, finding bands through similar artists, and is, for me, the online equivalent of the record store listening booth. I also joined (and rejoined and rejoined) for similar reasons monodrone did:

A lot of the reason I was part of eMusic in the first place was as sort of a charity for the artists and indie labels that help to bring great music to me. I have always been willing to give some money for that, even though I am web-savvy and can easily acquire music for free.

45 cents a song from 30 cents (I had the smaller 50 for $14.99 plan) is quite the jump. So, is it back to used CDs and feeling guilty that the artists never see that cash? I have a hard time paying almost 50cents a track, when some tracks were never meant to be a standalone thing (i.e. Ryan Adam’s Heartbreaker track “Ryan Adams Argument With David Rawlings About Morrissey”). And I have an equally hard time not paying for music at all, unless the band offers it up as a promotional spread-the-word tool.

Live shows and buying merch when I can afford to will have to remedy. Speaking of which… I need to find a belt for my Sadies cowboy bling. T-shirts wear out or get permanently borrowed by siblings, but a giant belt buckle is forever.

Title credit: Waylon Jennings, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way

We would sooner be kicked than go unnoticed

Just when I think the internet is getting stale…something like this is brought to my attention…

Totally awesome. Thanks Hey Buddy.

Title credit: Glenn Gould, The Idea of North (think I used this already, but don’t care, don’t care, don’t care…)

Spring forward, fall back down

Not sure why that list made me laugh — but it did. Which one do Cryptic-Canadians choose? Or Canadian-Universalists? {It’s 2 and I’m just having my first coffee – so …}

Sadies show was pretty great, minus a few punch-facers in the crowd. {That girl who alternated between boyfriend groping and attempts to get everyone to do that obnoxious raise-the-roof thing; that guy who was dancing like a seizure for EVERY song, even the slows; and the girl with the smelly leather purse on her bony shoulder that she kept jabbing me with and pretending nothing–what?—nothing was going on; and lastly– cellphone-picture-taking guy– he must have one hell of a collection of blurry bands on the bug jar stage by now}. Otherwise, good times. I’m getting to old to go see bands on Weekend (read:sad pick-up) nights. Or too lacking in patience.

I DID find out one of the Sadies are from Hastings, ON (My mom’s hometown, right down the hwy from Campbellford), which explains the show in C’ford next Saturday.

“The Weakerthans? Nah, those guys are wimps. You can tell ‘em I said that.”

(overheard at the merch table, Sadies, Bug Jar, Rochester, NY, Feb 21, 2009)

VS

{{fight!}}

Title Credit: The Weakerthans, Left & Leaving

CampbellRochestforder

via: www.myspace.com/thesadies

Coffee tastes like birthday cake and we get older with every sip I take

Marah tonight at the Bug Jar!!

Title credit: Marah, Angels on a Passing Train

Selfown pic: Whitney & Band I Didn’t Catch The Name of

They opened with Summer of ‘69 and this was taken during I Want You To Want Me. We left when they started to play some nickelback (or similar) song.
Damian’s Pub, Rochester, NY, April 11, 2008

You could drive a car through my head in five minutes, from one side over to the other.

work is piling up. some things are getting checked off (hard deadlines, thanks jf).

left to do this week:
order print
finish left/right book & upload to print on demand service.
artist statement
start grant deux
go see casiotone for the painfully alone and a whole whack of movies at the dryden
organize polaroid show for june (photographer? interested? send robyn york AT gmail DOT com an email and you can be in it)
start taking photos outside again (c’mon spring…hurry UP with the warm)
start layouts for house book
finish stories for house book
print grant & photocopy a tree’s worth of copies for class tomorrow

Title Credit: The National, Slow Show

I leaned on the wall but the wall leaned away