Samedi Gras
Mar. 3rd, 2012 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanThe end of another working week & here I am at home while Long-Suffering Partner does a bar shift on Oxford St tonight... on Mardi Gras Day. I bless her, I thank her, but I do not envy her.
Not much to report this week, which is absolutely fine after the tumult & stress of the last one. We're all fine, it's been raining a lot, Eliot the Time-Share Cat is fine... & we went to see Aphex Twin last night.
As far as I could tell, he didn't play anything that I recognised ~ no 'Come To Daddy' , no 'Windowlicker', not even anything off 'Ambient Works Vol 1'. In fact, as far as I could tell, he didn't actually play anything at all... there was a head & occasional black-clad shoulder visible behind a mesh video screen where a laptop & other machinery were set up & through all the smoke, lights & lasers, he could be sometimes seen to put on or take off a pair of headphones. It was like watching a Tax Accountant at work during a thunderstorm.
The music was unfamiliar, yet recognisable as Aphex Twin (very distinctive sound & style), but I was hard-pressed to remember any of it as we drove home & I'm even harder-pressed now. Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it at the time... I most certainly did & it almost made up for sitting through two hours of anonymous DJing from a couple of unannounced, ill-lit & mute blokes standing & occasionally bouncing behind a technology-strewn table at the front of the stage.
Maybe I needed to be 'on' something...
So tonight ~ dinner & a movie... well, a DVD... for one.
Not much to report this week, which is absolutely fine after the tumult & stress of the last one. We're all fine, it's been raining a lot, Eliot the Time-Share Cat is fine... & we went to see Aphex Twin last night.
As far as I could tell, he didn't play anything that I recognised ~ no 'Come To Daddy' , no 'Windowlicker', not even anything off 'Ambient Works Vol 1'. In fact, as far as I could tell, he didn't actually play anything at all... there was a head & occasional black-clad shoulder visible behind a mesh video screen where a laptop & other machinery were set up & through all the smoke, lights & lasers, he could be sometimes seen to put on or take off a pair of headphones. It was like watching a Tax Accountant at work during a thunderstorm.
The music was unfamiliar, yet recognisable as Aphex Twin (very distinctive sound & style), but I was hard-pressed to remember any of it as we drove home & I'm even harder-pressed now. Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy it at the time... I most certainly did & it almost made up for sitting through two hours of anonymous DJing from a couple of unannounced, ill-lit & mute blokes standing & occasionally bouncing behind a technology-strewn table at the front of the stage.
Maybe I needed to be 'on' something...
So tonight ~ dinner & a movie... well, a DVD... for one.
