| Sunday | February 21st | 2010 |
Dancers at Gasworks.
Lawn ornament?
Dragon attack.
Boffin' and larpin' on a February day.
It hit 56 degrees in Seattle today, though it often felt more like 60 or higher. Some of Seattle’s more “creative” folk converged upon Gasworks park to fly kites, dance, bike in anachronistic costumes and hit each other horrifically hard with flails and spears. For the record, the anachronistic bikers later rode down the street shouting “Hip hip, cheerio!” for added effect.
| Sunday | February 7th | 2010 |
Our winter in the Northwest has been incredibly mild—warmest January on record—and so the snow pile-ups in other parts of the country seem hard to imagine. But…this weatherman has convinced me of the severity of weather.
As Nick put it, he is like the Glenn Beck of weather casting. Oh boy. Oh boy.
| Sunday | October 11th | 2009 |
Summer Sounds: July
“French Navy” by Camera Obscura
My Maudlin Career
The heat was turned up high in July, with Seattle reaching record breaking temperatures, the likes of which the city had never seen. (The native East Coasters just slathered on some tanning butter and reminded everyone that “at least it isn’t humid.”)
As denizens scoured their neighborhoods looking for the lone air-conditioned business, I turned to Glaswegian band Camera Obscura for some sun-drenched songs. Star track “French Navy” kicks things into gear with an American 60s girl-group feel, lacing “oohs” in with some sparklingly clever lyrics. Sometimes nearly capsized under waves of powerful orchestral sound, Tracyanne Campbell’s rough-edged voice manages to stay afloat and carry each song to shore. The bouncier tracks made the sun shine a little brighter on the water as July rolled into August.
| Friday | October 9th | 2009 |
Summer Sounds: June
Autumn has—I think—finally settled upon the Northwest, bringing this long, swelteringly beautiful summer to a cool, crisp close. The summer of 2009 saw the release of some majorly impactful music all across the board. Each month of summer brought a new album which saw heavy rotation over my speakers, making the memory of that month indelibly twinned with its particular soundtrack.
“No Intention” by Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca, 2009
Sometimes I’m a curmudgeonly stick in the mud when it comes to breaking out of my audio comfort zone: I pull my afghan over my head and grumble that I don’t like that newfangled whatever-it-is and leave me alone, dammit.
Happily, a friend of mine played her pre-release copy of Bitte Orca when I couldn’t help but listen, and I came out of my troglodytic lair, blinking in the light of such incredible sounds. One of the most audacious albums I have ever had the pleasure of hearing, the month of June reverberated with spiky harmonies and thrillingly weird arrangements.
| Wednesday | July 29th | 2009 |
This is how to combat 103 degree days.
Yes, those are nectarine chunks floating in the Moscato. Bliss.
| Tuesday | May 19th | 2009 |
Re: what I posted below. Told you it was raining. And, yes, the sky is exactly that color right now. (If you look closely to the left of the rainbow, there’s a second one just peeking through. By the time I uploaded the photo, that one was completely gone, and the first one continues to fade out).
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