Weekly 8/1/06

This week was all about magic and music.

The magic has been evident in the general sense of good luck I have felt lately.
(should I be knocking on wood as I type? Can the wood sprites read?)

Aside from my schedule changing at the most opportune time:
- I have found a ten and twenty dollar bill at separate times over the past few weeks;
- Emily and I picked up a massive piece of granite up for our counter for a price likely cheaper than dirt (or "soil" as the horticulture people would have me self-correct);
- Clerks 2 was actually quite good;
- I have found a direction to aim both my creative energies and my "philanthropic" focus (more on that later);
- and we went to the Turf Club at Emily's request on Saturday and surprisingly found that there was a CD release party for local acts featuring a band I have been trying to see for quite a while (Halloween, Alaska) as well as a local hip-hop m.c. (Kill the Vulture's who has a ton of potential, if cursed with a bad drum machine operator and bad sound tech at the boards.And that leads well into the musical nature of this week's other links:

Mogwai is another band who I would like to see and recently they performed for an NRP broadcast which I have posted. They are kind of alt-rock intrumental type... stuff.

Dig it.



And for local acts (in The Cities) and a good calendar of upcoming shows, check the other link to a site called "How Was the Show?" - fitting name, I must say. They don't review everything, but their calendar was more complete than the websites of three venues at which I was looking. The Turf, Big Vs, and Station 4. I never fail to be baffled at how bad business's self promotion so often is.