Sunday, May 01, 2005
Terrorist anti-government love triangle
It's been an incredibly excellent weekend.
Friday: dead week at No Shame. As is always the case with dead week, the show was pretty good; and there were three musical numbers by my new favorite band The Michael Tabors. Also, we found out that my Dirty Sixty song made it to Best Of No Shame next week. Lots of people go to Best Of! Wow! And then later we all went to Village Inn and afterwards talked to cool people outside for a long time in the cold.
Saturday: the Cambus graduation bar crawl, or in other words, tons of people don the same shirt and engage in dispicable drunken behavior downtown for the better part of a day, all the time spending money like it was the end of the world. Me, Jake and Liz showed up fashionably late and left fashionably early; and I think I emerged with the belief that nine straight hours of pretty much anything, yes, even drinking, can be pretty boring. Which is not to say I didn't have fun. Some highlights include: Jake and I deciding to smoke some cigars, purely for the visual hilarity of it, and later very much regretting it; Liz's perpetual hiccuping problem; and me giving an unsolicited violin lesson to a street performer. Then I felt bad so I gave him a dollar.
Sunday: I went to the UI Chamber Orchestra concert, and heard a crazy orchestral/electronic piece by professor Fritts, and Bartók's Viola Concerto (among other things). I'm now somewhat scared to be a composition major, because there's a chance I'd have to write scary electronic music about math. Later I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's really good. Although I think in this case I can say that in most respects the book is better, I really enjoyed the visuals, particularly the Jim Henson Vogons. A good puppet creature is still much better than a CG creature, and I'm starting to think always will be. I kind of expected more of the characters to be British; I was somewhat disappointed with its mid-Atlanticism, but whatever.
So that was my awesome weekend. Come to Best Of on Friday and see my band!
Friday: dead week at No Shame. As is always the case with dead week, the show was pretty good; and there were three musical numbers by my new favorite band The Michael Tabors. Also, we found out that my Dirty Sixty song made it to Best Of No Shame next week. Lots of people go to Best Of! Wow! And then later we all went to Village Inn and afterwards talked to cool people outside for a long time in the cold.
Saturday: the Cambus graduation bar crawl, or in other words, tons of people don the same shirt and engage in dispicable drunken behavior downtown for the better part of a day, all the time spending money like it was the end of the world. Me, Jake and Liz showed up fashionably late and left fashionably early; and I think I emerged with the belief that nine straight hours of pretty much anything, yes, even drinking, can be pretty boring. Which is not to say I didn't have fun. Some highlights include: Jake and I deciding to smoke some cigars, purely for the visual hilarity of it, and later very much regretting it; Liz's perpetual hiccuping problem; and me giving an unsolicited violin lesson to a street performer. Then I felt bad so I gave him a dollar.
Sunday: I went to the UI Chamber Orchestra concert, and heard a crazy orchestral/electronic piece by professor Fritts, and Bartók's Viola Concerto (among other things). I'm now somewhat scared to be a composition major, because there's a chance I'd have to write scary electronic music about math. Later I saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's really good. Although I think in this case I can say that in most respects the book is better, I really enjoyed the visuals, particularly the Jim Henson Vogons. A good puppet creature is still much better than a CG creature, and I'm starting to think always will be. I kind of expected more of the characters to be British; I was somewhat disappointed with its mid-Atlanticism, but whatever.
So that was my awesome weekend. Come to Best Of on Friday and see my band!
