your vote counts! top 89 of 07

The Current is taking votes til the 15th of December - don't miss out, for god's sake!
dude, you can even win an ipod & 89 downloads, er something.

my selections? again, in no particular order, other than whatever the current did to my nice alphabetic list:

Lily Allen Alright, Still...
White Light Riot Atomism
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Baby 81
The Fratellis Costello Music
White Rabbits Fort Nightly
Robbers On High Street Grand Animals
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Radiohead In Rainbows
The White Stripes Icky Thump
The Cribs Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Minus The Bear Planet Of Ice
Feist The Reminder
The Redwalls The Redwalls
Wilco Sky Blue Sky
Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
The Shins Wincing The Night Away

that's right.

band of horses & some crap

we won't even discuss the openers, as that would bring up hugly painful memories.
well, as far as attitudes go, it didn't go too much better in our headliner's opinion. music? good. a cranky singer-man = bad.



band of horses is fantastic, in my opinion, but ben is a lil whiny baby. problem: something about monitors sucking - ear-plugs went in they went out, microphones where twirled and shoved, even knocked to the stage floor, lotsa huffiness spattered around. i was almost against the raging applause the audience offered to encourage an adult performance, but i joined hoping he'd realize that everything on our side of where the curtain lays.
side note: really have trouble with lay, lie, lies, lay's??? help.

i was shocked, but they returned to the stage for a 3 song encore.

the final message to the crowd: "hope to see you again soon. next time in the room next door."

my unvoiced retort: that sounded F-ing fantastic!, ya lil bitch.

robbers on high street & great northern

loved loved loved
great northern impressed my friends lotsly. they were not what i was expecting, but nevertheless were very enjoyable & i will be seeking out their album fo sho. listen to "low is a height": awesome much? yep.

robbers on high street were as i remember them. GREAT. i love that guy's voice! can't get enough. the entry was emptier than i liked, cause i want them to come back. maybe they don't remember, though, as there was much amounts of alcohol thrown about. the mood was one of celebration, because it was the last night the bands were touring with one another. cheers, i say!

green bus

what is THIS coming down the road?
a hybrid metrotransit bus, it is!!! there's awesome stadium seating in there, it smells new and it's FREE!!!

thru the end of the year all fares are waived so Hop On.

these buses offer 22% better fuel mileage & produce 90% fewer emissions & are soooo very quiet.

what an initiative - good job twin cities!

i'm swingin on 31st and lyndale. what?

what a joy! the breeze on your face. the weightlessness at the top. your stomach tickling your throat. the thump of your heinie smacking the seat when you've swung above the bar. the tensing of your biceps you haven't used in this manner since elementary school. the bruises resulting from ... i don't know, but we both have em! very well worth every ache and pain.

sunday funday brought us out of the venues and into the park last week, cause it was (for november & we take what we can get) hot out. ok, in the 50's, BUT sunny. we started on bocci (jen doesn't know what bocci is! ha!) and when its luster wore a few of us (not me) sauntered on over to (embarrassingly) join an in progress b-ball game. "we" were not good. how to distance myself from this situation? look around. see swings at the other end of the block. who's in???

wheeeeeee!
we WILL be doing this again ... and soon. but, must find higher sets :)

YOU describe a "pun" - tough, huh?

i was having lunch at the restaurant i used to work at and it's one of these open kitchen type'a places. i sat at the counter overlooking the expo/kitchen area to chat it up with the ol co-workers. like most of the other restaurants, many of the kitchen staff are foreigners of one variety or another. this place employs mostly ecuadorians, one of whom this story is about.

he's here to stay for a while, taking college courses and trying to learn the nuances of the f'd up language that we all know and love, english! the particular topic of today's lesson? the pun.

go ahead - try to describe... well, it's when you say a word that fits the context of what you just said in a different (often hilarious, sometimes really bad) way. needless to say, he didn't get it. we need an example. who's got one off hand? these pun things are nearly impossible to describe and way difficult to throw out on command. if you ever need a pun on the fly, here's what i said & here you go:

"so this guy's arrested for standing up in church and exposing himself. guy's now in court and my friend - the judge's law clerk - is listening to the attorney describe the incident and defend guy. clerk thinks to himself and later expresses to me 'i wish i had the balls to do that.'"

a pun.

what's the worst that can happen?

this guy has a point...

hit PLAY and learn & think about it, then change.

gracias.

more to come on this.