Category: Revelation

Great Big Sea hove in Rochester NY

I almost left it too long, but I got my tickets to see Great Big Sea, the best band in the world, tomorrow night.

I saw them in concert a couple of years ago at a free concert, and it was absolutely the most fun I’ve had at a concert in 20 years. I already had a few of their CDs, but the live experience just blew me away. “Road Rage” is now my favourite CD of theirs because it brings back memories of that concert.

A few weeks before we went to see GBS last time, we’d been down to Cornell to see Battlefield Band. They put on a good show, but they do this song called “After Hours” about how great it is to be playing after closing time in a pub, but they couldn’t get off the stage at the end of their set fast enough. GBS, on the other hand, did three encores and made it seem like they really did want the night to go on forever.

I hope they play lots of the old stuff, and don’t do the usual band thing of playing every song from their latest CD and leave out better stuff from their earlier CDs. I’m currently listening to “Seagulls”, and it’s a great song. And every CD is full of jems like that.

Al Franken again

Last night one of the few semi-non-political jokes stemmed from how Clinton lied about sex, and how that led to a frank discussion in bedrooms across the country about what wasn’t or was adultery. “My wife told me in no uncertain terms that oral sex *is* adultery. Which I guess is why we haven’t had any since we got married.”

Jokes and the joking jokesters who tell them.

Went to see Al Franken last night. Sure, if you’d read his “Lies and the Lying Liars” book and seen his interview on the Daily Show the other day, there wouldn’t have been all that much new material, but man it felt good. It’s good to allow yourself to think, if even for an evening, that there are a few thousand people in your own city who are as mad about the Bush administration as you are, and (being citizens and voters) are in a better situation than you to do something about it. Hey, all I can do is give money to candidates and organizations like moveon.org and the ACLU, and give moral support to guys like Al Franken, and so that is exactly what I do.

Tomorrow I’m going to set up AudioHijack on the G4 to capture his new radio show to disk. If and when I have a working iPod, I can load the previous days show and listen to it at work.

And some ever better news about the iPod

I’m sure you’re all absolutely fascinated by this, but it appears that the problem is definitely fixed, and, more importantly, I’ve probably got a fresh battery in the new iPod. After nearly 9.5 hours of use (10 hours minus the time it was off for lunch time), I turned it off for 20 minutes, then turned it back on again and it came alive! Woo hoo!

And hopefull that will be the last iPod update I’ll have to post for a while.