Posts by Danielle
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Flume
Dammit. I prefer to discover people after they've played here and then have a vague sense of regret, not decide I like them two days before their local appearance and feel bad all that day for not going. A pox on you, Brown!
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The "deep catalogue" song I was most thrilled to hear:
Since my husband got a setlist from the soundboard I'm slightly disappointed that there were three songs from Get Happy!! on the cards which didn't make it in the end.
I was hoping for more from King of America
I've noticed that Get Happy!! and King of America, even though they're such strong albums, aren't really used that much in live shows. It's a bit odd. Anyway. My eighth Elvis Costello show, and my first since 2004, so I was very very very happy. NERDGASM! :)
(Also, Don McGlashan is so great every time I see him. I was so pleased we got there early enough to see his whole, tiny set.)
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OK, so Yacht Rock: I had no idea, but I just read about it and realised that I am a bit of an idiot-savant afficionado (we DO have the entire Have a Nice Day CD series, for starters).
Also, it's Elvis Costello Day, everyone! We are excite! If you will, take a moment to experience Elvis' worst hair ever (and there is some stiff competition) and Pete Thomas drumming with speed-fuelled fury.
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Hard News: On Freedom, in reply to BenWilson,
Does she call me auntie, you mean? She can't currently because she's dead (uh, I don't mean that as flippantly as it sounds, it's just an awkward thing to write), but she didn't when we were kids either. (Of course in Louisiana you do get called "aunt" a lot even if you aren't an aunt, and all older women are "Miss [firstname]" whether married, single, related to you or someone you know from the grocery store, so it can be somewhat confusing at the best of times.)
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Hard News: On Freedom, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Yes, she was a bit older than me! Wow, I forgot that even happened. Thanks for enhancing my terrible memory for childhood events, Kyle. :)
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Hard News: On Freedom, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Don’t do that. Some of them might want to move here!
No, you and Rob don't need to worry. I have experience: these links actually have the opposite effect, in that they just piss conservative people off and make them all internally indignant about the USA being the greatest/free-est/whateverest country in the world. It's like those studies which show that when people are confronted with facts which logically rebut their strongly held but indefensible beliefs, the beliefs actually become *more* entrenched. "I don't care what you say, I know I'm right!"
(My half-sister, who is an absolutely raving born-again Christian and as Republican as they come, *did* actually move here for a year in the mid-eighties because of family stuff but quickly returned to the States - after removing her four children from public school because we taught evolution. I am not kidding.)
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I was just saying on Twitter how much I enjoy posting things like the Crooks and Liars link on Facebook in order to feel some of my very conservative American relatives quietly imploding. (I am kind of an asshole. :) )
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I really am a sucker for headlights.
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Made a flying visit to the annual Elvis Presley memorial day at Henderson's Cranwell Park this morning. Lots of restored/modified classic cars on display.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Islander,
So do most goats
Oh, OK! With the white goats I've never really noticed, but these black goats give them a great, if slightly unnerving contrast.
