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learnteachIn Denver for four days...Peter Gabriel concert and time with friends and time away from Silicon Valley. Flew out yesterday with an Aerostich tank bag, and rented "Lilo and Stitch" for the flight. Pleasant flight although the plane was full. N, you told me it was a great movie, but you didn't tell me how sad it could be! Cried and laughed all the way into Denver.
Snow on the ground here, a little on the shaded sides of hills. Everything's brown near the airport, as compared to California where the green is growing up through the old growth. Missed my local connection initially, in part because I had to go stand in the sunlight and sing Elvis songs. (Thanks, Stitch.)
Friend arrived, we started to catch up and fell back into a friendship which amazes me with its ease and inspiration. We only stopped talking, sharing stories, trading jokes, commenting on each other when the food was in our mouths. Went off in Othello (black Honda Accord) to sushi at a nice place where I ate way too much, but much fun--amiebi with fried heads, little crabs baked, which started from a snifter on the bar, then put on a bed of salt like they walked off the beach, spicy tuna handroll (not as spicy as I'm used to), Christmas roll (outside has red died tobiko; cut on a slant and piled into a tree/pyramid shape.)
Then, off to the Peter Gabriel concert. Wow. The stadium felt intimate, somehow. It was only about 2/3 full, strange to me. The stage was in the round, with a rotating outer ring and some other technical staging things as PG is wont to do. The concert was ...great, but not consuming; the best songs were the new ones, with older ones in general having more prerecorded tracks, and some less energy. But the bass was too high for the stadium not full, and sometimes overwhelmed the vocals, and there was technical difficulties. I take it back--the songs that didn't come across as well were the more high energy rock ones. The band has turned into a Vampire Clan, the Gabrielites; black clothing, males no hair, women long black, make you bleed by the ears to feed.
It's fascinating to see performed live songs I've listened to so much; my interpretation shifts, and I find I've mondegreened small words that make big changes. And those changes echo through a lot of resonances in me. Sky Blue now makes real sense... found out that the bass voice in "In Your Eyes" is Tony Levin (appropriate! King of Bass!)... Barry Sinclair show is a protest "you are what you watch"... Darkness very effective, and Melanie Gabriel was screaming into a microphone that they modulated for the scream sound in the song...the monster in the cabin was the drummer... Solsbury hill always good, but I'm changing more internally than externally these days, so the music of more introspective songs fits better... got to hear all the songs I desired, but still missed "Kiss that Frog". The concert is too much to hold completely in my head.
Stayed up until ?? talking; I feel a thousand conversations started, a hundred ideas that I want to examine passed to me. Boys talk UDP, girls talk TCP (stateful conversations.)
And today? Workout, pedicure, dinner with other friends, more talking, DVD's. Ah. Vacation.
FOOD AND EXERCISE: Thur 12/6 Aikido 6:30-7:30; knee walking and subway escapes (inclose to wall,hanging from strap with one hand. Breakfast Bagel and coffee 8 AM. Pole arm and sword centuries at 9. Coffee with schmear at airport 10:30 AM. Gatorade and Cookie at airport (denver) 3:00PM. Sushi pig out 6:00 PM, w/tea and sake. Coffee w/Drambuie 7:30 PM.
Today: TBD, but I'm going to go do a century from the knees right now. Then try to buy more Peter Gabriel tix.!
Other events: Today, my brother made it home. Today, I went on vacation. Yay!
Snow on the ground here, a little on the shaded sides of hills. Everything's brown near the airport, as compared to California where the green is growing up through the old growth. Missed my local connection initially, in part because I had to go stand in the sunlight and sing Elvis songs. (Thanks, Stitch.)
Friend arrived, we started to catch up and fell back into a friendship which amazes me with its ease and inspiration. We only stopped talking, sharing stories, trading jokes, commenting on each other when the food was in our mouths. Went off in Othello (black Honda Accord) to sushi at a nice place where I ate way too much, but much fun--amiebi with fried heads, little crabs baked, which started from a snifter on the bar, then put on a bed of salt like they walked off the beach, spicy tuna handroll (not as spicy as I'm used to), Christmas roll (outside has red died tobiko; cut on a slant and piled into a tree/pyramid shape.)
Then, off to the Peter Gabriel concert. Wow. The stadium felt intimate, somehow. It was only about 2/3 full, strange to me. The stage was in the round, with a rotating outer ring and some other technical staging things as PG is wont to do. The concert was ...great, but not consuming; the best songs were the new ones, with older ones in general having more prerecorded tracks, and some less energy. But the bass was too high for the stadium not full, and sometimes overwhelmed the vocals, and there was technical difficulties. I take it back--the songs that didn't come across as well were the more high energy rock ones. The band has turned into a Vampire Clan, the Gabrielites; black clothing, males no hair, women long black, make you bleed by the ears to feed.
It's fascinating to see performed live songs I've listened to so much; my interpretation shifts, and I find I've mondegreened small words that make big changes. And those changes echo through a lot of resonances in me. Sky Blue now makes real sense... found out that the bass voice in "In Your Eyes" is Tony Levin (appropriate! King of Bass!)... Barry Sinclair show is a protest "you are what you watch"... Darkness very effective, and Melanie Gabriel was screaming into a microphone that they modulated for the scream sound in the song...the monster in the cabin was the drummer... Solsbury hill always good, but I'm changing more internally than externally these days, so the music of more introspective songs fits better... got to hear all the songs I desired, but still missed "Kiss that Frog". The concert is too much to hold completely in my head.
Stayed up until ?? talking; I feel a thousand conversations started, a hundred ideas that I want to examine passed to me. Boys talk UDP, girls talk TCP (stateful conversations.)
And today? Workout, pedicure, dinner with other friends, more talking, DVD's. Ah. Vacation.
FOOD AND EXERCISE: Thur 12/6 Aikido 6:30-7:30; knee walking and subway escapes (inclose to wall,hanging from strap with one hand. Breakfast Bagel and coffee 8 AM. Pole arm and sword centuries at 9. Coffee with schmear at airport 10:30 AM. Gatorade and Cookie at airport (denver) 3:00PM. Sushi pig out 6:00 PM, w/tea and sake. Coffee w/Drambuie 7:30 PM.
Today: TBD, but I'm going to go do a century from the knees right now. Then try to buy more Peter Gabriel tix.!
Other events: Today, my brother made it home. Today, I went on vacation. Yay!
