Monday, October 7th, 2002
Diary Of Wood
It has come to my attention that my site, and by extension the Lake Holiday site, do not work in Netscape. Because Netscape doesn’t support the marvelous iframe tag. Bastards! I will have to recode the damn thing now. blaaaaaah.
Did some recording tonight at rehearsal. Born On A Train, which sounds pretty damn good, and Awake Too Long, which sounds like tempo is a suggestion we decided against following. It lurches for the whole length – speeds up, slows down, etc. We’ll finish the overdubs just because we’ve gotten this far, but I don’t know if it’ll ever be releaseable.
Sunday, October 6th, 2002
The Walk
…which is more accurate than ‘The Run For The Cure’. Also acceptable would be ‘saunter’, ‘shuffle’ or any other synonym for moving at a not-brisk pace. Completed the 5K CIBC Run For The Cure this morning, which to my surprise did not involve dashing about the city searching for a hidden Robert Smith whom we would then inflict noogies on. Instead, it was throngs and throngs (in the 1000s, easily) of people marching up University from Nathan Phillips Square, across Bloor and back down to City Hall in the name of raising funds for breast cancer research. Though technically my participation was mandated by HWB, it was fun and for a good cause regardless. Even Jon Voight showed up! Seriously. He was standing at the corner of Bloor and Avenue waving. Strange, but neat.
We completed the walk in about an hour – it would have been quicker if there weren’t so many dang people to navigate around. But there were, so it did. Either way, my legs are achy (though 5K isn’t much more than I might walk in a normal day about town) and I have a blister on the back of my foot from running shoes I haven’t worn in ages and which apparently aren’t broken in yet.
Afternoon was spent watching all (both) of this season’s West Wing. Again. It’s still good the second time around. Also wired up the Lake Holiday website to databases, now I just have to make up administrative pages. I hate doing that. So boring.
np – Low / Trust
Sunday, October 6th, 2002
Proclaim Your Joy
Mark Eitzel is one of my favorite songwriters of the last ten years, so I wasn’t going to let an opportunity to finally see him live slip by. An opening slot for Low was certainly better than nothing, though time-wise, that’s almost how it seemed. Scheduled for a 7:45 PM start time, Eitzel took the stage at around 10 minutes to, accompanied only by a percussionist. From note one, it was blissful. His world-weary baritone was in perfect form on both material from his solo career and the handful of American Music Club nuggets he trotted out. The only complaint was the brevity of the set – 35 minutes was not nearly enough and an encore wasn’t forthcoming despite the pleas of the audience. This is a man who needs to come back to town on a headlining bill, or failing that we need to go to him.
Disappointing as it was when Eitzel left the stage, Low offered up a worthy consolation prize. Taking slow and minimalist to a new extreme, Low played a hypnotizing and more than a little narcolepsy-inducing hour-fifteen set. The band shared a single set list. Percussion consisted of exactly one ride, one snare and one floor tom. Occasionally Mimi Parker would work a tambourine or handclaps into things. Less really is more with Low – despite the spareness of the sound, it always sounded full, there was never a sense of something missing. Everything – drums, guitar lines, bass, vocal harmonies – was in its right place. A very pleasant (and non-tinnitus-inducing!) different sort of show.
Guitars – Alan Sparhawk played Gretsch double-cutaway semi-hollow with Bigsby, 12-string acoustic and double-bound sunburst Fat Telecaster with rosewood neck, all into a blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb. Sounded like there was a Line6 delay modeler in the mix as well
np – Olivia Tremor Control / Presents : Singles And Beyond
Saturday, October 5th, 2002
Yerself Is Steam
Link to a cool download made available by Mercury Rev – a font based on Jonathan Donahue’s handwriting. Very cool and spidery-looking, it’s one of my favorite fonts. Used up above on the ‘Universal Truths And Cycles’ header. Download here.
Been working on a mock-up of the Lake Holiday website. Based on Five Seventeen’s ideas, but I wanted to build up the architecture while waiting for him to do images. I’m pretty pleased with it, actually. Will link it up when more of it is done.
np – Big Star / #1 Record – Radio City
Saturday, October 5th, 2002
Screaming Lead Balloons
My business cards have finally proven useful. I’ve won an ‘East Coast Kitchen Party’ from the Duke Of Argyle – apparently this consists of a wide variety of appetizers for a bunch of people. Sounds good to me, I am not one to turn down a cocktail weiner – or cocktail cod, as the case may be. Today I am a winner!
Sloooooow day at work. Everyone else chugs away finishing up the BASF DVD presentation, I sit and read my ASP book for lack of anything else to do. But I do get to listen to music so that’s okay.
We have our CIBC Run For The Cure t-shirts now. Larger than expected, I hope the dryer can work its mysterious shrinking mojo on it before Sunday.
np – Yo La Tengo / Ride The Tiger
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