Please Visit my friend Enrique's blog. Good friend, and always great with the music stuff.
This Spring has been great; lots of in-town stuff and little travel, and Lynne's been working hard on her PhD. This is all about to end soon as tomorrow Lynne's headed to New Mexico for a conference (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists in Albuquerque). Lynne'll then head to Phoenix. Chris Toenes and I are headed out the following weekend to NM while Lynne's in Phoenix, then we all convene with our friends the Selsuns in Albuquerque, then back home. The following weekend I'm in Atlanta, helping Jonathan work on/move into - their new home! Very exciting for them, they need the space. The weekend after that Greg, Charlotte, Marissa, and Mariah Meyers (Lynne's Sisters family) will be here for about 4 or 5 days, it'll be nice to have them here, it's been a while. The weekend after that we're headed to Germany for our week-long bike trip, 2 days with the Tour de France, and a week in Amsterdam. Holy Moly it's going to be a crazy summer.
However, I'm looking forward to all of that activity. For our Europe trip, I've begun a new
blog, to hopefully post daily (or close-to-daily) activities whilst we are in Germany on our bike trip, and maybe Amsterdam too. I'll add the days in as soon as I get info.
CD of the Week: P. Miles Bryson's
Megalomaniac Decorator's Quarterly. A gargantuan mish-mosh of found sounds and thriftstore finds: imagine those 101 Strings songs mixed with stereo test records and little bits of 50s "how-to" records. Even the cover has a mock-Good Housekeeping magazine cover on the front! Perfect. On each listen I begin to think that the sounds are actually coming from within my own brain. Frantic, scratchy, mixed up and glitchy, with random bits of orchestra sounds. Reminds me of Venetian Snares a bit, but Bryson uses almost ALL found sounds. Some of it seems hastily put together, but I kind of like that; electronica and mix stuff sounds so carefully worked over sometimes (to my untrained ears). The sound levels can be really uneven too, but that's ok, on the whole it's a good record. The track names are enormous... take, for instance, track #1: "(A Brief But Incongruous) Introduction On How To Wander Aimlessly And Achieve The Newest Impossible Cosmetic Conspiracy". Good listening on an iPod on the bus.
We had a great time with Greg and Charlotte, Marissa and Mariah last weekend. They are from Phoenix, so the girls were enthralled with lightning bugs, frogs, and big trees here in the jungles of Cackalacky. Here's a photo of the girls with their lightning bugs.
