Just back from a short trip to Vancouver, BC. B and I walked around Stanley Park in the sun, got some reflexology on our feet while sipping jasmine tea in overstuffed chairs and listening to the Grateful Dead, spent a morning on Granville Island, saw As You Like It at Bard on the Beach, ate at a killer Afghani restaurant and enjoyed ourselves in a generally, laid back, mostly Canadian manner. The dog stayed home with E.
What the Dog and I are listening to:
The dog has been on a Jazz kick lately. She likes nothing better than to lie in the sun and let the music transport her to a place filled with steak bones, unlimited belly rubs and slower squirrels, but that doesn’t stop her from enjoying other music as well.
Joshua Redman – James Farm
I love Josh’s music. He borrows a bit from all who’ve come before and heads in his own direction.
Corea, Clarke & White – Forever
Return to Forever alum reunite for a two disc musical journey in which they really stretch their legs.
Al Di Meola – Pursuit of the Radical Rhapsody
Speaking of Return to Forever, Al has slowed his fretboard work down a bit and created something very nice.
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Orchestra – 40 Acres and a Burro
More jazz than Latin, but I like it.
Foster the People – Torches
This is what MGMT’s follow-up to Oracular Spectacular should have sounded like.
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven
Former Blasters guitarist offers a rootsy sound.
Iggy Pop - Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection
If punk has a grandpa it’s Iggy. Play this loud!
Vetiver – The Errant Charm
Named for a perennial grass native to India. Saw ‘em twice at B-shoot 2011, another creat collection of tunes from Andy Cabic and Co.
Gillian Welch – The Harrow & the Harvest
There’s no one quite like Gillian.
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
A fuller sound than For Emma
What the Dog and I are reading:
I Am Not Sidney Porter by Percival Everett
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
What the dog and I are watching:
The More the Merrier
1943, directed by George Stevens. Starring Joel Macrea, Jean Arthur and Charles Colburn. A housing shortage in war time DC leads to comical situations.
Sons of Anarchy Season Four
An interesting spin on Hamlet.
Even though the dog was born and raised in the Northwest, she’s a hardcore Sox fan with no love for the Yankees.
Derek Jeter terminated his engagement with Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights and she’s the newest Charlie’s Angel). Prior to the relationship with Ms. Kelly, I suspected Jeter was gay. Now there’s no negative connotation to him being gay, it’s an observation not a judgment. The reason for my suspicion; confirmed bachelor, well groomed, good dancer, drinks wine coolers and likes Cold Play. Since he’s broken it off with her, I no longer suspect that he’s gay (and there’s still no negative connotation to him being gay, it’s an observation not a judgment).
That being said the Red Sox are 3-7 in their last 10 games. Are they trying to finish the season the way they started it? Tampa Bay is four games out of the wild card and the Angels are five back with twelve games left to play. Boston has two more with TB, four with the Orioles, a day off, then three with the Yanks in the Bronx. They finish the regular season with three games in Baltimore.
The Yanks are 6-4 for their last 10. They have 13 games (12 tough ones) left, no days off, two to complete the series with Toronto, one against Minnesota then four against TB, three versus the Sox at home then they travel to TB to play three and finish the season.
If the Sox get their heads out of their asses and the Yanks put their heads further in their asses, the Sox could finish in first place and TB or the Angels could take the wildcard. Of course that’s a perfect world scenario.
Go Sox!
Ineffable – a PG-13 way of communicating that someone is not available for intimate contact.
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