June 25th, 2009
Spam: 25235 (617 making it to my inbox)
Books:
Events:
- Lunchstealer had a birthgay
- Sweeny Todd @ Garland Civic Theatre
- Montreal & Quebec City
- Saw lots of bands at Festival Kinetik 2.0, but no where near all of them
- Interlace
- Terrorfakt
- Project Pitchfork
- Marching Dynamics
- God Module
- Reaper
- Amduscia
- Grendal
- Pride and Fall
- Assemblage 23
- Das Ich
- Icon of Coil
- Walked zillions of miles
- Was nearly throw off a Zodiac boat into the St. Laurent river
- Angus Dog!
- The mysterious Sunkist Tree
- Sealegs had a birthgay
- SerenitySprings finally graduated
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June 10th, 2009
Spam: 34446 (539 making it to my inbox)
Books:
I read Zelazny’s Amber novels many years ago. Since I setup my book shelves at home they’ve been taunting me to read them again. These are pretty short books, so this big ol’ list isn’t as impressive as it seems.
Events:
- Scarborough Faire
- The wooden mugs made their yearly outing.
- We did not fence this year. I am still bitter.
- Crystal Castles @ the Granada
- Except not. They sold out. And then the whiney babies decided not to play at all. They canceled. A sold out show. They canceled on a sold out house with 1200 people inside waiting to see them. Sheesh. Now I have no wish to ever see them.
- FC Dallas hosts Toronto FC
- Dallas finally won. Obviously it was our presense that put them over the top.
- Ladytron and The Faint @ the Granada
- Our electronic concert curse continues as Ladytron’s set is cut short by equipment difficulties.
- The Faint were good, though.
- Funker Vogt @ The Church
Ok, I’m a little late getting this one out. Sue me.
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April 19th, 2009
Spam: 17222 (552 making it to my inbox)
Books:
Events:
- North Texas Irish Festival
- Cut Copy @ the Granada
- The Egg & 2020 Soundsystem @ the Granada
- Grygar had a birthday
- Murder on the Nile @ Theater 3
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March 7th, 2009
Spam: 20023 (504 making it to my inbox)
Books:
The music theory book convinced me it is finally time to learn the piano. Alas, the make myself marketable project has had me spending more time in Java books than at the (musical) keyboard.
Speaking of Java books, I’m seriously considering getting a Kindle2. It turns out Oreilly makes a bunch of their books available in multiple electronic formats, including Kindle format. Technical books, what with all their examples to type in, seem to be really good candidates for reading electronically. No more dealling with trying to get a fat book to lie flat. Also when the state of the art has passed the edition by, 6 days after it’s published, I wouldn’t have a pile of dead tree sitting on the shelf never to be cracked again. Rather than getting a Kindle2 I could just open a PDF on my computer screen, but especially on a laptop that doesn’t leave a lot of space for other windows. Anyone else out there feeling Kindle2 lust?
Events:
- Ras and Corey had birthgays
- And a party, which I attended, $deity help me.
- I rewarded my sacrifice with a piano.
- First Annual Dallas Burlesque Festival @ Texas Theater
- Overall a fun time, but that DJ has got to go
- Happy birthgay to the Ponylagoon
- Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band @ The Granada
- I don’t think hillbilly blues gets any better
- Happy birthgay to SerenitySprings
- I did make an appearance at Birthday Con
- MystiQal Mardi Gras in Downtown Dallas
- Of course winter decided to blow back in for the evening.
- I don’t think New Orleans has anything to worry about just yet.
- Flogging Molly @ Stubbs in Austin
- For this outside show winter decided once again to blow in
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February 28th, 2009
Spam: 18452 (529 making it to my inbox)
Books:
Events:
WhooHoo! I got the January review in before March!
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