Writing the good read
I think the first time I used the phrase “I’m with the band” — apart from in junior high when I played flute in an actual band — was in high school when I somehow became attached to a band called Flight. In case you can’t tell from the photo below, it was the 1980s….
I went to see The Castaways at Urban Coffee Lounge in Kirkland tonight. It’s a ukulele band that does cover songs from the ’80s. I’ll give you a minute while you read that sentence again. They’re fabulous. You wouldn’t think a bunch of ukuleles and some drums could sound so cool, but they do. The…
I was at Safeco Field in Seattle tonight to watch the Mariners take on the Twinkies. Seeing the Ms play always teaches me something. Here’s what I learned tonight. 1. If your dad works for the team and you have any problem, you have no problem. This is true even if the tickets you have…
I was at the U2 concert last Saturday in Seattle. It was a glorious day here in the Pacific Northwest – clear, warm, and sunny as 65,000 people streamed into Qwest Field. The crowd was slightly different from the last time I went to a U2 concert – in 1987 in Croke Park in Dublin…
Yesterday was theme day at the Blogathon, in which we were supposed to create a Wordle of our blogs or of some meaningful language and post it. Unfortunately, for reasons I have yet to discover, I’m having difficulty adding pictures and videos to my blog. I’m working on it. So for now, here is a…
Last night I listened to Paul Simon’s new album, So Beautiful or So What. Earlier, I had heard an NPR story about five composers taking on a project to write music based on Mozart’s Brandenberg Concertos. It got me thinking about who will be around, considered classical — or at least classic — in another…