Saturday night LJ-fever!
Jul. 19th, 2003 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxFor most of today, I was kinda dragging... I didn't run, and felt super-spent getting up in the morning, which was kinda upsetting. I might be coming down with a little bit o' something,
Oh my goodness, but on a completely unrelated note, I found out about this band today, looking at the Theremin World site -- they're a Really Good Ska Band from NYC, and they'd released on Moon Records and Hellcat, and apparently, in at least one song, they've used a theremin... but The Slackers have the funk in their trousers, and they've got this beautiful angry-New-Yorker edge to their vocals, lovely horns, and drums and rhythm guitar that make you want to get up and skank (or at least bob your head).
"I'll find another before this night's over
She may not be you;
I might not be sober..."
-- The Slackers, "Wasted Days"
... so I hope I'm not coming down with something, but it's a distinct possibility. I spent the afternoon over at the parental unit's house, where we did a good bit of water-skiing with some of dad's associates (Mary's family and this fellow named Bill). That was entertaining. I managed to flip the wakeboard 'round the other way and get going goofy-footed, which I'd never figured out how to do before, but I think I could do that reliably now. We adjourned for the afternoon as a really pretty rainstorm (with a little bit of lightning) started up, and then not long after, I headed back to mom's house, and she came back from her weeklong trip to North Carolina and talked about that for a while...
... and since then, I've been hanging around and talking with the family and considering methods for tracking down Sarah again. I suppose a phone call would be a good start. Maybe some coding is coming about -- I think the LGP stuff all needs to get hacked up to compile nicely with modern libraries tonight :)
Oh my goodness, but on a completely unrelated note, I found out about this band today, looking at the Theremin World site -- they're a Really Good Ska Band from NYC, and they'd released on Moon Records and Hellcat, and apparently, in at least one song, they've used a theremin... but The Slackers have the funk in their trousers, and they've got this beautiful angry-New-Yorker edge to their vocals, lovely horns, and drums and rhythm guitar that make you want to get up and skank (or at least bob your head).
"I'll find another before this night's over
She may not be you;
I might not be sober..."
-- The Slackers, "Wasted Days"
... so I hope I'm not coming down with something, but it's a distinct possibility. I spent the afternoon over at the parental unit's house, where we did a good bit of water-skiing with some of dad's associates (Mary's family and this fellow named Bill). That was entertaining. I managed to flip the wakeboard 'round the other way and get going goofy-footed, which I'd never figured out how to do before, but I think I could do that reliably now. We adjourned for the afternoon as a really pretty rainstorm (with a little bit of lightning) started up, and then not long after, I headed back to mom's house, and she came back from her weeklong trip to North Carolina and talked about that for a while...
... and since then, I've been hanging around and talking with the family and considering methods for tracking down Sarah again. I suppose a phone call would be a good start. Maybe some coding is coming about -- I think the LGP stuff all needs to get hacked up to compile nicely with modern libraries tonight :)
