That's crazy, because apparently a former housemate of a CMU grad school friend is Ian, JV's keyboardist! It's a small world!! |
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Oh yeah? Well, tell him I thought he was pretty rad. Apparently another frien of mine was his drummer's housemate for a while, too... |
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My friend Daniel is touring with John Vanderslice as his violinist/bass player/backup vocalist.
I saw their show here at Duke. It was quite fun! |
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I wish J Mascis and Lou Barlow had notified me when they played their reunion tour show in Pittsburgh last year, whoops. |
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So I'm just gonna keep this page alive as an ongoing Of Montreal journal, perhaps for life, ya know...
Funny/exciting combination of events yesterday: I happened to be driving in Newton yesterday afternoon (a suburb right outside of Boston), and a car passes me and I swear I see Kevin Barnes in the passenger seat. A couple seconds later, we're both stopped at a red light right next to each other, and I'm taking this opportunity to stare on over and evaluate the situation more, and this person is staring back at me (probably due to my odd glaring), and I'm thinking, jeez, that really seems to be Kevin Barnes, and I mean, he's kind of a unique looking person, but their tour doesn't bring them here for another 3 weeks, so this doesn't make sense. He has a doppelganger I guess?
Then I get home and I look at the myspace and there's a bulletin message from Of Montreal that half the band (Kevin and Bryan) will be doing a special special acoustic show in Boston tomorrow as part of a fundraiser event at Berklee. Ah ha! And how exciting! I get to see them twice in the next month! And I don't have to wait three more weeks anymore either! And that probably explains what he was doing about town.
Also, it was the first time I was actually glad that I use myspace. Although honestly, I might have even done some online searching about Kevin Barnes in Boston if I hadn't seen that, just to quell my puzzlement, and then perhaps I would have found out about the show that way, but still...
Funny cuz this comes the month after Broken Social Scene did a last-minute-announced "myspace secret show" in Boston, which part of what tipped me off on that one [activate grammar police repellant] was that I got off the subway that afternoon and, just as I got above ground, saw Kevin Drew and Leslie Feist walk by me on Mass Ave. Is this indicative of how out of the loop I've gotten on the music scene, that band members literally need to find me on the street in order to announce their presence in town? |
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You're right: the recording is good but the quality of the compression is pretty shit when streaming.
My favorite is Life and Death of an American Fourtracker, but I like all the albums since then. |
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6217. Anonymous (port0232-acz-adsl.cwjamaica.com) –
24 Sep 2007 17:51:09
[ BAD SAT SCORES ]
Who's doing the test in October 2007? |
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i was in level 106 quath the quantity of levels
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Codeine was colorful and lush on an album that up until then, on my first listen, was seeming like a grey and white muddle. I was on the road with my iPod on which I'd been playing Cellar Door a lot, and when I ventured into Emerald City, it seemed to lack the personality and visceral appeal of my still-favorite Vanderslice album.
Those songs have all grown on me quite a bit now, especially The Parade. I'm still lukewarm on Kookaburra; acoustic guitar songs like that just seem generic to me. But it was great live.
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Yeah, especially since I don't even know what you look like!
I only listened to the webcast for a few seconds through laptop speakers, so my opinion isn't very well informed. It certainly would make sense for NPR to make MP3s available for download, so I don't have to fire up wimply media player every time I want a listen. Lemme know if you post Kookaburra...
re Codeine: Weird, I just find that song so slow and didn't understand it at all. But the rocking live version was really good. Still, it's no White Dove! |
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Hey, I was indeed at that show. Imagine us not finding each other in a crowd of hundreds of people!
I was right smack in the middle of the rocking out zone, wearing a University of Maryland 2002 t-shirt and a black bag I kept pointing very obviously at the stage.
It's weird that you think the NPR webcast quality is good. I was listening to it and the lo-bit compression grated on me so much it was starting to make me unfairly hate the songs! But it presumably has the last four songs, whereas I bumped the button and lost everything after "Underneath the Leaves". I do have Kookaburra and Time to Go on my recording.
Tablespoon of Codeine was my immediate favorite on the Emerald City album, while the others took time to get into. Go figure.
And yeah, that singalong Keep the Dream Alive was awesome, with Ian holding up the rainbow-colored toy xylophone. I wish I'd gotten that on tape. |
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6208. Tom 7 (h-68-166-207-75.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
19 Sep 2007 21:13:45
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
I was out of disk space, but now it's fixed. |
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Nevermind. I got it after a few hours of waiting. |
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I need help. I'm trying to upload a level and it says this: upload failed: fail (bug) bad lev (or out of disk space).
How do I fix it? |
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No, I don't have copies of any solutions except for the ones that are uploaded to the server (like the current best speedrun for a level), and those are a bit difficult to extract. I guess the lesson is to make backups on another computer! =( |
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Hi Tom, ok, so that's no option... I thought you might have our files somewhere! So that was a big missunderstanding, unfortunately! My iMac is not accessible AT ALL, that's why I was asking! Thank's anyway. |
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6199. Tom 7 (h-68-166-207-75.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
18 Sep 2007 01:31:35
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
I only have a solution file that you sent me a long time ago as a bug report. I can send it if you want. Is your old computer accessible at all? Maybe you can recover your .esp file and copy it onto a disk or USB memory stick? |
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Hi Tom - I've got a computer problem - my computer doesn't work anymore... So I'm on another one right now - but I've lost like half of my solved files. Do you have my solutions saved somewhere? Help, what can I do??? Thanks MM |
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HELLO EVERYONE,
I LET A ROOM IN THE UK SINCE I STUDY THERE. AND YES WE GOT MUSHROOMS AS WELL.
!!!!!!!! DOES ANYONE HAVE A SOLUTION THAT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!!
LET ME KNOW, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT MY HEALTH AND THINK THE MUSHROOMS ARE REVOLTING. |
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6195. willie_mushroom_eater (static-72-91-20-210.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net) –
16 Sep 2007 15:13:16
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
yep, just scooped out a big 'ol shroom that was growing up and out of the shower drain... the stalk was attached to the PVC riser embedded in the concrete of the stall.. i can deal with a shroom once in the while in the drain, but NOT growing anywhere else... btw, our house was built in 2001 and is all 12" tile (no carpeting), so the appearance of this random fungus is making me apprehensive... |
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Thank you anon! That one is my favorite. |
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I sure like Betrayal at the Knights of Columbus. I had forgotten about it. Now I have remembered about it. |
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6186. were can i find fighting robot kits (70.130.26.23) –
14 Sep 2007 11:08:33
[ Killing Robots ]
hello |
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Yeah, as soon as I get mildly tired of one song I just listen to the next song on the CD, it's great! ("Bunny" gets stuck in my head all the time.) |
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And continuing to follow right behind you, Sophia song of the month for September = "Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider". With close runner up being "We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling" or "Cato As A Pun" or "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" or "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse". Basically their latest couple of albums are just non-stop fucking genius, thank you again for the poking... |
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