Music and other stuff
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jmc_bksThe Biochemist's review of MCR @ MSG cracked me up, mostly because it was so full of glee, but especially this bit:
Both areas have what I would call big hair, carefully arranged hair, but each with a different aesthetic.
Also courtesy of TB, also on the music front: The Cab will be opening for The Hush Sound later this summer, and will be returning to Ottobar.
It is true, I am a musical purist. The original version of pretty much any song is the one I like best. The Garth Brooks version of Billy Joel's Shameless? Is just wrong. Clapton's acoustic version of Layla? Strikes me as melancholy rather than seductive. Oh the shock of my college boyfriend, how could I not love this version? Well, it could be sexy...if I hadn't known and loved the original version (which rocks) first. Etc. So it should be no surprise that I like the (slightly) earlier version of The Cab's Take My Hand; the album version seems too produced and orchestrated. Having said that, I still like the whole album.
Random things:
1. cache /= cachet
2. orientated < oriented if you are writing an American character
3. cross to bear, not cross to bare
I want to see Patrick Stewart as MacBeth.
The O's beat the Sox last night, which was a shock. 20-19, another surprise.
Reading: I've finished Passage, which I loved and need to reread immediately. My library copy of Meredith Duran's The Duke of Shadows arrived, but I'm stuck about half way through and can't be arsed to finish it. C has lent me her copy of From Dead to Worse and I'm not in any way intrigued enough to read past the first chapter. I think maybe I need a reading hiatus.
Hello, Jersey hair. I missed you. You are distinct from Texas hair in a way that is indescribable, but nonetheless significant.
Both areas have what I would call big hair, carefully arranged hair, but each with a different aesthetic.
Also courtesy of TB, also on the music front: The Cab will be opening for The Hush Sound later this summer, and will be returning to Ottobar.
It is true, I am a musical purist. The original version of pretty much any song is the one I like best. The Garth Brooks version of Billy Joel's Shameless? Is just wrong. Clapton's acoustic version of Layla? Strikes me as melancholy rather than seductive. Oh the shock of my college boyfriend, how could I not love this version? Well, it could be sexy...if I hadn't known and loved the original version (which rocks) first. Etc. So it should be no surprise that I like the (slightly) earlier version of The Cab's Take My Hand; the album version seems too produced and orchestrated. Having said that, I still like the whole album.
Random things:
1. cache /= cachet
2. orientated < oriented if you are writing an American character
3. cross to bear, not cross to bare
I want to see Patrick Stewart as MacBeth.
The O's beat the Sox last night, which was a shock. 20-19, another surprise.
Reading: I've finished Passage, which I loved and need to reread immediately. My library copy of Meredith Duran's The Duke of Shadows arrived, but I'm stuck about half way through and can't be arsed to finish it. C has lent me her copy of From Dead to Worse and I'm not in any way intrigued enough to read past the first chapter. I think maybe I need a reading hiatus.
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Date: 2008-05-14 08:02 pm (UTC)jennie
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Date: 2008-05-14 09:38 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to reading more about Remo and Barr, and I hope that Fairbolt Crow reappears. Now that Dag and Fawn have gone south, I'd love to see them move north toward Luthlia, since it has been portrayed as so much less settled than the more southern land.
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Date: 2008-05-14 10:49 pm (UTC)I liked that the book was more of an ensemble piece than the first two - that's something I think she does particularly well.
Marianne McA
HEA for Ivan
Date: 2008-05-15 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-15 05:23 am (UTC)I know I've screwed up the cross to bear one only because I equate bear to the animal.
Patrick Stewart in anything is gravy.
Cindys
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Date: 2008-05-15 03:53 pm (UTC)Exactly. He's playing MacBeth on Broadway through the end of next week. If I had known earlier, I'd've made a road trip, but I have other weekend/travel plans.
Unrelated: I saw poutine on a menu locally recently! It was a special, and I haven't seen it again since, but I thought of you and KristieJ when I saw it.