A Few Quickies
Wow. Life is full.
Just today:
- Two of my 8th grade girls served the first day of their suspension for throwing some punches at each other (with mild success) just 10 minutes before school ended yesterday. I feel like I need one of those signs you see at industrial plants, only with this one reading “Days Since a Fight:”, which, while previously staggering in the hundreds, yesterday dropped back down to zero.
- I had three, yes three separate people remark to me how pathetic my NY Mets are starting the year. A record of 2-4 with their Home Opener loss to the Phillies (c’mon! The Phillies !?!?!) today has put me in a quite dire mood when it comes to the joyfulness that typically accompanies the wonders of baseball in the springtime.
- My childhood hatred of NPR is demonstrating to me the irony of life. Listening to KCRW (a local NPR affiliate) on the way home this evening, they announced that they’d be giving away copies of the newly released DVD of P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Surprisingly, I was one of the first five callers (yea for speed-dial), and won! Any of my readers who live in Los Angeles (including Whitter, La Mirada, La Habra, or any of those other wanna-be L.A. suburbs) are now officially invited over to my place to watch it once it arrives (which I approximate will be sometime early next decade).
- Finally, much to my great dismay, one of my favorite places to hear live music, Largo, will be moving from it’s intimate 50-seat cavern to a monstrous 250-seat theatre, albeit a mere 3 miles away. While initially dismayed, I had hoped that the new venue’s neighborhood would at least permeate with the same authenticity as the current Fairfax location. However, today driving through West Hollywood, I pass a sign that says “Coronet Theatre: Largo Coming Soon.” Sadness. :( In the meantime, enjoy some of my favorite artists who regularly perform there!
Jon Brion – I Was Happy (be patient, because he’s got to play all the instruments)
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Aimee Mann – Save Me
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Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident
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Themocracy
Hmmm… Are you forgetting last year? Yup. The Phillies. But the season is 162 games long, not 8.
;)