Tag: Music

  • There is not enough squee in the world for this!

    There is not enough squee in the world for this!

    Russell Crowe, joy of my movie watching and delight to my musical ears, announced on Twitter yesterday and to his fan site of choice that there are plans afoot to take the current incarnation of TOFOG (The Ordinary Fear of God) on tour next year! They’d been hoping to do August of this year as…

  • Song prequel giggles

    Song prequel giggles

    Those of you on Twitter may have seen the #songprequel trending topic, wherein the idea was to post titles of songs that came before actual songs. Much hilarity ensued! With a hat tip to , , , and , here are the Great Big Sea ones we all came up with so far: Young Brown’s…

  • Fine food, fine conversation, and fine music

    Fine food, fine conversation, and fine music

    very kindly offered , , and me free tickets to last night’s Seattle Symphony and Chorale performance at Benaroya, and we were delighted to take her up on that. We hadn’t hung out with Kathryn and for a while in general, for one thing. For another, we agreed to meet for dinner at Wild Ginger…

  • Valentine’s Day, with music

    Valentine’s Day, with music

    came to the realization this weekend that she really needed a decent bodhran to finish up her CD, given that her little Kimi, which is essentially a toy, just wasn’t cutting it. So since we’re recovering well financially, we scampered down to Dusty Strings yesterday to get her a real drum! They didn’t have the…

  • Valentine's Day, with music

    Valentine's Day, with music

    came to the realization this weekend that she really needed a decent bodhran to finish up her CD, given that her little Kimi, which is essentially a toy, just wasn’t cutting it. So since we’re recovering well financially, we scampered down to Dusty Strings yesterday to get her a real drum! They didn’t have the…

  • And now, the birthday loot report!

    And now, the birthday loot report!

    This being the record of things lovely people gave to me to celebrate my birthday: From , the DVD set of season 3 of MacGyver and the recently released Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora, mostly because the planet is way more interesting to me than the movie 😉…

  • Book and/or music recs needed!

    Book and/or music recs needed!

    Y’all on Twitter and Facebook saw this already, but for all you blog and LJ and DW folks, I got me a nice little $25 gift certificate for Amazon, and I’m looking for things to spend it on! I plan to spend its entire balance on recommendations, so if you have a specific book you…