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Feb. 13th, 2004 01:05 amGyaahhhh. Anybody who's not Mel ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
delamancha, you missed an absolutely glorious show... I just got back from seeing The Slackers at the Cotton Club, and it was one of the best concerts I've been to...
Mel graciously agreed to go at the last minute (she opted to go in lieu of working on a paper tonight, but that's okay because it's not due 'til later, apparently :) ), and we showed up around 9:30, with the assumption that there would be two other bands playing before them... and as we're walking in, I think "woah, these guys are pretty good..." ... they had the whole echo-y one-drop reggae drum beat going on... and then I recognized the song they were playing, and it turned out that that was The Slackers... for whatever reason, there weren't any other bands playing that night. So they must've been going for like three hours, because they didn't stop until midnight :)
Absolutely incredible musicians. 'Bone solos that made me want to cry. Super-high-energy stage presence. A saxophonist who pretended to pass out on stage after a really long solo where he ended up playing flat on his back and then proceeded to get revived after having some Jack Daniels poured into his mouth and the crowd chanting his name. A super-echo-y dub rendition of the old reggae standard "I Chase The Devil" (you know that one, even if you don't think you do -- they sample it in a track on The Prodigy Experience). Everybody was skankin' away with fairly wild abandon (even though they're pretty laid-back, as far as ska bands go -- almost reggae-rocksteady-ish) ... except, Lisa, those who were swinging!!
Yah. So you should've gone :) It was great. I snagged their latest disc, Close My Eyes, which has both "Skankbon", the song with the crazy alternating 'bone and sax bits that we heard towards the beginning, and "Old Dog", which is tremendously sad both because it's about an old and abused dog (and sad dogs are even sadder than sad humans), and because it's about lost potential and yearning for youth.
And if you were curious about that AI project, it worked out pretty well in the end. I was just a bit too brainfried to do all of the search-caching that I wanted to do, but it always spits a valid answer, at the very least (and it does pull up previous results for a lot of cases) :) I think that's more than can be said for a lot of the projects...
... and now we've got a little NLU project to be working on, which is quite pleasing :) This one, unless I really get inspired, will not involve all-nighters, as Kurt gave us no deadline more specific than "maybe by this time next week, we'll see how you're doing". And this is something that he's explained pretty well all ready, so it shouldn't be rough :)
... and that, my veggie-dumplings, is all I'm'a gon' say right now. Zot!!
delamancha, you missed an absolutely glorious show... I just got back from seeing The Slackers at the Cotton Club, and it was one of the best concerts I've been to...Mel graciously agreed to go at the last minute (she opted to go in lieu of working on a paper tonight, but that's okay because it's not due 'til later, apparently :) ), and we showed up around 9:30, with the assumption that there would be two other bands playing before them... and as we're walking in, I think "woah, these guys are pretty good..." ... they had the whole echo-y one-drop reggae drum beat going on... and then I recognized the song they were playing, and it turned out that that was The Slackers... for whatever reason, there weren't any other bands playing that night. So they must've been going for like three hours, because they didn't stop until midnight :)
Absolutely incredible musicians. 'Bone solos that made me want to cry. Super-high-energy stage presence. A saxophonist who pretended to pass out on stage after a really long solo where he ended up playing flat on his back and then proceeded to get revived after having some Jack Daniels poured into his mouth and the crowd chanting his name. A super-echo-y dub rendition of the old reggae standard "I Chase The Devil" (you know that one, even if you don't think you do -- they sample it in a track on The Prodigy Experience). Everybody was skankin' away with fairly wild abandon (even though they're pretty laid-back, as far as ska bands go -- almost reggae-rocksteady-ish) ... except, Lisa, those who were swinging!!
Yah. So you should've gone :) It was great. I snagged their latest disc, Close My Eyes, which has both "Skankbon", the song with the crazy alternating 'bone and sax bits that we heard towards the beginning, and "Old Dog", which is tremendously sad both because it's about an old and abused dog (and sad dogs are even sadder than sad humans), and because it's about lost potential and yearning for youth.
And if you were curious about that AI project, it worked out pretty well in the end. I was just a bit too brainfried to do all of the search-caching that I wanted to do, but it always spits a valid answer, at the very least (and it does pull up previous results for a lot of cases) :) I think that's more than can be said for a lot of the projects...
... and now we've got a little NLU project to be working on, which is quite pleasing :) This one, unless I really get inspired, will not involve all-nighters, as Kurt gave us no deadline more specific than "maybe by this time next week, we'll see how you're doing". And this is something that he's explained pretty well all ready, so it shouldn't be rough :)
... and that, my veggie-dumplings, is all I'm'a gon' say right now. Zot!!
