If it seems like I am posting a lot lately it's because I am. I'm a little manic. More than a little. Every few years or so when I feel like this I start to wonder if it is genetics or just my present circumstances that lead to acting and feeling all jittery and remote and yet more open and sharing than ever before. Like when I held myself up in my room on sunset avenue in arcata for hours on end making my "Going Big" journal and then finally came out and forced my roommates to read it all. Mainly, I am trying to distance myself from my love post because part of me wishes I had never written it and if I keep posting it won't be on my main page anymore but rather relegated to archives. So I have 23 minutes at the library computer until it locks up on me and I go see a movie. With all my recent sharing I really don't have a lot to say. But with my manic fingers typing away I actually have everything to say. About everything. So there is some risk involved there with saying more I will regret later when I read this next week. But mostly because it will end up like the stupid things you read in your junior high diary, not because it isn't worth documenting. So I won't talk about myself and that will take care of that.
I have been slowly, over months really, trying to listen to all the music Justin sent me. I finally pulled out the DeVotchKa album and I've been listening to it in my car to and from Talent. It is really great. Here is a website. DeVotchka. They look like they would be the best band to see live.
The first song on the album sounds like Tom Waits musically arranged a song for Roy Orbison to sing and then got a band of gypsies to back him. Basically. I've also been listening to The Black Rider, speaking of Tom Waits, which Justin also sent me. I've heard it before but I never bought it so now I own it and I can listen to it all I want. Pretty great. I still like Closing Time best.
October 1, 2005
Like Cats to a Bathroom
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They are one of the best live bands I've seen. They even have a vintage theremin, like the kind in an old wooden box. The tuba player's tuba is covered in electric lights too, that was a nice touch.
Thanks for the link to the everything is illuminated thingy with devotchka. Every day I listen to that album it just gets better and better. I am so glad you sent it to me, media nazi. Hey, that reminds me. I read an interview with elijah wood where he was wearing a gogol bordello t-shirt and said that he is friends with that band. I've still only listened to them like once. But I can't start in on them until I listen to devotchka at least another 100 times.
Apants said, "I'm a little manic....I start to wonder if it is genetics"
Really.... does mania run in your family? Anyone famous?
I have an aunt who is manic-depressive. But I'm not. I've always thought someday I might turn out that way but luckily so far it hasn't happened. But she isn't famous.
We found out later that Elijah Wood was at the same Gogol Bordello show we went to at this small club in San Diego! Apparently, his girlfriend is one of the band's dancers. That's what I've heard anyways, and would explain
A. why he was at the show
B. he is friends with Gogol since he was in the movie with them (the girl was in the movie in a short part
C. in interviews he just says she's "in music" and won't say who she is.
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