Dutch government tumbles. Party time!

Just having a lazy Sunday morning lie in which has just spilled into the afternoon. I'm gonna get up and get something to eat now. I hope everyone's well and happy, or at least happyish.

listened to 1973 08 18 Copenhagen yesterday; 2 hour show, pretty good sound, great long Dupree's Paradise, a rare BrownShoes for this band and w/ JLP, Farther O'Blivion has a long Bebop Tango section with no vocals in it instead of the usual drum solo; thru half the tape the drums are a bit muddy and the overall sound is tinny even with the bass way up... but great rare versions. Village of the Sun is in fine rare form + somewhat different than the Roxy version...
Today I listen to 1980 05 06 Columbus, Ohio. Also a 2 hour show and very different; but the peaks are all distorted and takes retreating on the bass a lot, and it's probably a hockey rink so there's a bit of echo on the vocals and bass drum sections, leaving the whole thing sounding like a hollow spacebulb. This show is special though because it gives a taste of the spring's outing and the material they were preparing for their Mudd Club debut in two days : like Outside Now, City of Tiny Lights, A Pound For A Brown, a great Pick Me I'm Clean/Easy Meat ~ for twenty minutes...

yesterday also I heard a noise outside in the morning I did not recognize. It was hundreds of joggers, as far up and down the street that I could see, all running up to half a marathon, to raise money for the local Health Care Access. Free health care for people who qualify. Hundreds if not more all jogging down my street on their route most of the morning long. Nice thing to see. So I went out and clapped for awhile and then went back inside.

Aw that's sweet.
Found a 1960s reprint of a 1930s Go Fish game Philips issued to make lightbulbs more popular. It has awesome graphics!
In the mean time we're clearing the house. We're getting a new heating installation soon.

Heating? We're approaching winter down here and just had our first taste of it this week. I prefer this time of year but that doesn't stop me getting a wee bit blue from time to time as the days close in.

Is it cold or are you having snow as well?

Been making a lot of Celtic knots, they're very neat to do!

Elections here on Sept 12.
...This round was at least as unprofessional but nowhere near as funny as the LPF fiasco in 2002.

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yesterday listened to
1988 02 06 NYC : sound good to good plus, a very responsive audience; a complete packard goose with the Bartok bit in the middle. The kids were there so they came up and did stuff. Dweezil on Whippin post, diva and ahmet on dancing. A two hour show, seemed shorter.

Mowed the lawn. i'm thinking about changing my name and telling the idjits on the zforum how stoopid they are. So disappointing. The thing is they think they might be waging a culture war. The war is over. We're still fighting though over the scraps of what's left. So sad.:crying:

Makes you wish you could've been there.

Managed to score a guy's phone number. Now to figure out what to do with it.

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Makes you wish you could've been there.

the show?: yes
the forum?: no

today's listening
1980 06 08 Dortmund. So far, City/Pound For a Brown are longer improv pieces. Great live romps and Frank pushes the envelope again and again but the rest of the band seem less engaged. Of course, I'm silly enough to think Frank woulda been better off putting out a whole bunch of long improvs from this tour rather than what came out in Tinseltown Rebellion or the first disc of YCDTOSA3. For example, in addition to the regular string of YAWYI songs, "If Only She Woulda" gets a bunch of solos and is fun.

...I still believe the nice people should unite. Which I believe happens in topics like What Happened To You Today in Randomonium, which gets no negativity.

Still I need to get one of my FZ-related ideas off the ground. Just remind me of it occasionally.

Date's today.

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Date's today.

So you called him?

Went to see him in person. It was a nice warm day and the entire crew at the giveaway store was sitting outside enjoying themselves. He was racing around on his skateboard and managed to jump over a barstool on it. Will call him to get a more personal chat, am still not sure what to make of him.

Maybe trying to impress you? Or just showing off?

Yeah. At one point I went inside. Last week he had his arm in a sling because of a skating accident: dislocated shoulder. This time around he didn't got injured. I did, while I was helping him pulling sticky stuff from a ramp so he could use it to skate on. Thumb got trapped between ramp and wall.
Anyway it seems like he's begging the gods to injure him so I can Florence Nightingale over him. No thank you.

Dutch national holiday yesterday, was exhausting and hot but I did meet an old high school friend and bought a sack of walnuts from him.

Played bicycle repairman today as in Monty Python.