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That Feeling, When You Check Things Off Your List?

I had that today.  Seven months after my last eye exam, I finally chose frames and ordered my new glasses.  Oh, and it's been several months since my last blog entry.  Almost sounds like a confession, except it's not!

Busy Q1 of 2015.

The most amazing boots ever...late Christmas gift from Poseidon (NYE 2014):

 

Zola Jesus, my girl crush (January 2015):

 

Kim Gordon's book release and signing (February 2015):

 

Early spring at our house (March 2015):

 

March madness ending with a Duke win in April (April 2015)!

 

Boring blog, but we are now up-to-freaking-date!

 

Aging Hipsters...Still Rocking

Saturday night, Poseidon and I got our aging rockster on at Cat's Cradle to see an old school local band, The Pressure Boys, playing their second of a 2-night concert benefiting the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation.

I was new to the area during the heyday of The Pressure Boys, but I was a huge fan of their post P-Boys incarnation, Sex Police, in my early 20s.  My friends and I traveled all around the Triangle to hear their "loopy" brand of ska during the early 90s, so I was excited to see my first Pressure Boys show Saturday, and I wasn't disappointed.

Poseidon and I attend local shows frequently, and sometimes we find ourselves on the older side of the crowd (but music lovers are music lovers are music lovers).  We aren't bothered by this, but last night was a rare treat.  We were younger than many (Poseidon and I are pleasantly surprised to see how well we're aging) of our fellow lovers of music, which was super, but I mainly noticed that aging hipsters still love and appreciate their local music, and that powerful observation made the night spectacular!

Old School:
 

Be Loud! 2014, Saturday (I caught of glimpse of Poseidon and I in this video):
 

 

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Aesthetically Pleasing to me Today - Debbie Harry

On Friday, March 21st, The Smithsonian Channel aired Blondie's New York, an hour-long documentary on the making of Blondie's breakthrough album, Parallel Lines.  Poseidon and I recorded Blondie's New York, and we finally watched it Sunday night.  It was interesting, but short.  I would have enjoyed seeing more, but the documentary focused on the making of Parallel Lines, more than 35 years since its release (can you believe that???).  The Smithsonian Channel is airing the documentary, at least through April, so check their schedule.

Album producer, Mike Chapman is great in this documentary.  He still seems 'giddy' when speaking about the making of the album, and using the Roland CR-78 drum machine on "Heart of Glass."  I know nothing of drum machines (that's more Poseidon's area), but I was fascinated. 

I have an aesthetic appreciation for all that is Debbie Harry.  Always will.  Not just anyone can rock pink.

Photo Source: http://kitten.buzznet.com/photos/inspiredbydebbieharry/?id=64165781

 

Photo Source: https://trendcouncil.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/debbie-harry-for-vogue-spain/

 

As a Dum Dum Girls fan, I would have enjoyed catching this Debbie Harry/Dum Dum Girls collaboration at SXSW.

 

 Amphitrite

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Barbara & The Boys, ''Hooty Sapperticker"

I sent myself an email on March 2, 2012 to remember this song (I'm going through my old emails now, trying to purge correspondence I know longer deem necessary...making nearly no progress).  Anyway, Poseidon and I carpooled that day, and we heard this song on WXYC and we fell in love with "Hooty Sapperticker."  1958.  He googled the song, and sent me a youtube link.  Alas, I cannot find it on itunes or I would download the hell out of it, but I like clicking this link and dancing.  Like now.

 

 

 

Amphitrite

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I haven't done one of these posts for some time, and I'm waiting for a report to run, so I thought I would throw one together quickly as I'm listening to "Birth in Reverse."  My title should begin with Who rather than What.  Today, I find St. Vincent (Annie Clark) aesthetically pleasing.  And guess who has tickets for Annie's sold out show tonight at Haw River Ballroom?  We do, that's who : )

It's the hair.

 

photo source: http://www.npr.org/2014/02/17/274773638/first-listen-st-vincent-st-vincent

 

--Amphitrite

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I Lied to my Husband...About my Favorite Color

Yellow.  When I was five, I felt some imagined pressure to choose a favorite color.  My sister liked red and my little brother liked blue.  I had to like something different, right?  I mean, I couldn't copy my twin sister.  I couldn't copy my brother.  I picked yellow because my reading book at school had a picture of a big yellow balloon on the cover.  It was in my head.  The big yellow balloon.

Yellow has always been my go-to color.  "What's your favorite color?"  "Yellow."  Always my answer.  I don't even like yellow.

Somewhere down the road, I must have given that vanilla answer to Poseidon, because he recently mentioned my favorite color being yellow and all, and I told him I hate yellow.  He was appalled.  How could I lie to him about my favorite color?  I tried explaining that it wasn't really a lie.  Declaring yellow as my favorite color was a by default situation, and now it's simply a habit I'm unwilling or unable to break, and not a lie.

"Yellow was in trouble, even then." - Ken Nordine

 

 

 

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Five for Friday - Christmas Tunes that Don't Annoy Me

Happy holidays!

 

  "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" by Tom Waits.
 

 

 

 

  "Father Christmas" by The Kinks - somewhat overplayed, but still, it makes me smile.
 

 

 

 

  "Everything is One Big Christmas Tree" by The Magnetic Fields.
 

 

 

 

  "Everything's Gonna to be Cool This Christmas" by Eels
 

 

 

 

  "Please Daddy (Don't get drunk this Christmas)" - cover by The Decemberists.
 

 

Amphritite

  

An Anniversary of Sorts...with Deerhunter

Poseidon and I met in the fall of 2008, on a Sunday night.  Our first date was on November 2nd, 2008.  We met for beer, then walked over to the Deerhunter show at Cat's Cradle.

Nearly a year and a half later, Deerhunter played again, at Cat's Cradle, on a Sunday night.  We bought tickets.  Poseidon proposed to me over a glass of wine, before the show, at the same bar we met for beers on our first date.

Deerhunter will be playing Cat's Cradle again, this Sunday, September 22nd.  We have tickets.  Poseidon and I recently celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary in August.  We were at the beach with a friend that week, and we didn't officially celebrate (except, we did get up early that morning to watch the sunrise on the beach) so on Sunday, we will.  With Deerhunter.  Again.

I heart you Poseidon.

 

One of my favorite pictures from our wedding...

Oh, and one of my favorite pictures of Deerhunter (photo by Robert Semmer  www.robertsemmer.com)...

--Amphitrite

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Insomnia is the Devil's Number One Shrew

Without a doubt.  I swear, after 7 nights without much sleep to speak of, I'm confident I can write an insomniac's manifesto.  Fortunately, the Hopscotch Music Festival, in it's 4th year now, was this weekend, so I had good reason to go without sleep.  Spiritualized!

 

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