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I've spent much more time over the past two days listening to "I Don't Feel Like Dancin," "Disco Inferno," "The Sign," "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," and "99 Red Balloons" than I thought that I could ever cram into 48 hours. Of course, this means that Maura and I have been cutting our own living room rug with Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party for the Wii. After not seeing the game in stock before Christmas, I saw a few at Target on the 26th and I couldn't pass it up. Fortunately for my musical tastes, the two songs which I can best dance to now are Coldplay's "Clocks" and New Order's "Blue Monday." It's probably not a coincidence that those are the two songs I knew best before buying the game. I was also happy to see that my birthday #1 song, "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer, was included. I'm certainly not at any point that neighbors will be gawking at my mad skillz through the windows, but I think I'm about one more dance away from being able to beat the first venue master at "Too Little Too Late."
The triple-t in the title wasn't a mistake on my part, it was a mistake on the game-makers' part.
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I can't find the article, but around this time last year I remember reading that Christmas afternoon and evening is usually a pretty busy time at the emergency room. The major culprit is the theft-preventive and bomb-proof blister packaging that contains much of our fun little toys and gadgets, but knives in the hands of over-eager present openers can be just as dangerous. Fortunately, I didn't have to go to the hospital, but my Swiss Army knife blade did take a good slice into my finger while trying to get through the packaging around my new penguin cocktail shaker. It took about a half hour for the bleeding to stop, but that didn't stop me from ripping into a few more presents with some tissues and an ice pack held around the tip of my finger.
This injury nicely compliments the scrapes that I got all over my palms on Sunday, 45 minutes before my friend's wedding was starting. I was in my tux on my way out to the parking lot to get the groom out of the car and I misjudged the distance from the walkway to the pavement below. Unfortunately, there were no witnesses, because I bet that it was quite a sight, but I slid headfirst onto the parking lot, slowed primarily by my hands. I showed up at the car and could only show Greg (the groom) my bloody palms through the window. Of course, that perked him up and he and my fellow groomsmen hurried to help me cleaned up. Fortunately, the scrapes weren't too deep and the tux was amazingly clear of any rips or other permanent damage. Other than it hurting to clap when the married couple was announced, I turned out alright.
It was a great wedding, Greg - congratulations to you and Brownwyn. I'm glad that my best attempts weren't able to sabotage your big day.
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I don't often drink coffee, but when I do it's usually a cappuccino that I make for myself at home. Inspiration struck after opening our presents Christmas morning and I had a delicious eggnog cappuccino sprinkled with nutmeg. I thought it was an inspired idea, even though you can probably walk into any Starbucks and get one.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.
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Since I haven't been doing a very good job of generating my own content, I thought I'd let you check out Radiohead's promo widget for the CD release of In Rainbows. There's even a new song to check out ("Unravel").
I'll be back soon, after a wedding this weekend. Happy holidays everyone.
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On Tuesday night at TT the Bear's I finally got to see one of my recent favorite artists, Richard Hawley. I discovered him around the time of his second album, Late Night Final and have been hooked ever since. I've never listened to his first band, The Longpigs, but my first experience with him was watching Pulp's Finsbury Park video and wondering who this tosser who thinks that he can just jump up on stage with the band and play some lead guitar. I was the middle of my love affair with Pulp's recently-departed guitarist Russell Senior, so I wasn't about to let someone else just march in and take over. I'm glad that I was able to get over that and come around to him. In the middle of the show this week it struck me that I actually had seen him once before but had never realized it. Pulp played a much-too-short three song set at the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert in Washington, D.C, and he must've been playing with them at that point.
Back to this week...his band came out looking quite sharp, most of them dressed in suits with well-teased hair. He crooned, rocked, and rockabillied through a mix of songs from all four of his albums, stopping in between each one to tell some stories or just get us more into the show. He wasn't above telling us a dirty joke or talking about getting completely pissed (in the English sense) with Jarvis before his first appearance with Pulp on Jools Holland's show. I think I actually have a copy of that performance on a videotape somewhere. Unfortunately, the band didn't play "Baby, You're My Light," which was the runner-up in our wedding-first-dance competition earlier this year. Still, every other song was great; I hope he doesn't wait too long before coming back again.
Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera, otherwise I would've gotten some excellent shots since we were right in front of him. The iPhone camera pics turned out better than I expected, but I'm still kicking myself. I got a setlist, so I'll put a picture of that up at Flickr this weekend.
Chromewaves has a good write-up of the Toronto show, and the Boston Globe has a short interview with him from earlier this week.
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