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Waiting for Neko Case at the Fox Theater in Oakland.

Just returned from a fencing tournament so now Lance is qualified for two different weapons and four events at the Junior Olympics. By some wild coincidence we are having dinner tonight with two olympic coaches, two olympic foil fencers and some fencing parents. Best of all, no broken foils!

That was definitely the slickest Neko show I've seen. Her man friend / baby daddy / guitar tech Jeff brought out or took away a guitar every song. Big wall of sound emphasizing the vocals and harmonies, with up to five guitars playing at once. It was a solid retrospective of her music and she loves the Bay Area so she and the band were ramen-drunk and loosey-goosey in her words. My favorite line was that school night rock is the dirtiest rock in town. She thanked is for being bad with her. It seemed pre-arranged, but they did five songs for an encore. Best part of the night, however, was that they banned photography and recording and told people to keep their phones down to respect their neighbors and to enjoy the show in real time. People actually respected it throughout, except the two people in front of me couldn't help themselves in the encore and took some shots. I hope @en480c4 is going to see her next month...

Alison Moyet

Chickpea with coconut milk and turmeric stew. Tasty.

4AD reissues of This Mortal Coil - 24-96 of two of their albums. I adore Caroline Crawley! Love her cover of Mr. Somewhere....

Ok guys it starts to get cold. it's time to light the stove…

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix). A holiday present from the Coen brothers and (I believe) their first all digital production. While I can't say that I loved all the chapters equally, it has their fingerprints all over it. Our family fav Tom Waits has a great part in one of the chapters and the one that takes a journey west on a wagon train headed to the Willamette Valley (where I live now) were my personal keepers.

We missed her last time around. I'll have to see what we can do to make the January show in Boston. Thanks, I missed that she was coming back around.

Kate Bush, Aerial — probably my least listened to Kate Bush album, so can’t comment on the remaster, but musically a lot better than I remember.

I actually don’t remember the show that well. I was more of a McHale’s Navy and whatever that one was with Jim Nabors. And The Wild Wild West. And Ultraman. And Space 1999. Some of those purple-haired chicks were hawt! BTW, did I ever mention...? I found out CGAW was close to my age (within a year or two), so...wasn't lusting after someone who's ridiculously younger than I was. Yay me, not a pedophile!

Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe Infinity He's so great.

I was into F Troop as a syndicated rerun. I just learned from the Howard Stern show today that Melody Patterson lied that she was 18 when she got the part as Wrangler Jane. She was only 15 when she started as Ken Berry's love interest.

I ❤️ Pineapple Thief so much. Me: Brunt:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The Beach Boys – Sounds of Summer An antidote (alternate reality?) for rainy days like this:

Blur

You can watch it in German with subtitles on Netflix. Probably too late but that is how we watched it.

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