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The night before last, I had some weird dream involving a tower, and characters from various sources. I know Mario and Toad were there, and probably some other video game characters, as well as some inhabitants of Oz (I distinctly remember Dorothy and Toto being around). I think Conan O'Brien was also there at one point, as were some characters from Full House. (I blame ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje for that last one, since she made me watch Full House reruns before I went to bed.) There was another part in the dream (or possibly a different dream; it's sometimes hard to tell the difference) where my mom and I wanted to go to Alaska, but not the Canadian part. I think we were actually there at one point, and it was very warm for Alaska. We were in a field across from a gas station where Blur was having a concert.
There have been times when I thought it might be a fun idea to write some kind of crossover between Oz and video games, especially Super Mario Bros. And other times I've decided that idea was stupid and corny. Regardless, I think that makes more sense than a crossover between Oz and Perry Mason or Red Dwarf, both of which have actually been done.
Anyway, last night, Beth and I went to the Tin Angel to see Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor. It was a good show, although pretty much all the songs were kind of low-key. I'd never heard Nora before, but I thought she and Kelly worked well together. They did introductions before most of the songs. One of Kelly's was a song (I believe it was called "Golden") that she had written for Neko Case when she was having a bad day. They also did a cover of "Papa Was A Rodeo," one of my favorite Magnetic Fields songs. Kelly mentioned that it was written by Stephin Merritt, and that she'd "like to punch him in the nose with [her] love." Another song they did was called "Whispering Pines," originally by The Band (not to be confused with Johnny Horton's song of the same name, which I'd actually heard before), which Kelly said she had originally done with backing vocals by Edith Frost. I mention this because I seem to recall hearing thatjazzsammich once played with a band that opened for Edith. Like they say at Walt Disney World, it's a small world, I suppose. Anyway, it was a good show, if a poorly attended one. I think there were less than twenty people in the audience, which was disappointing. We did get to sit right in the front, though. I kind of wish I had brought the poster I bought back when I saw Kelly perform with Neko and Carolyn Mark, because I managed to get Neko's and Carolyn's signatures on it, but not Kelly's. We didn't meet Kelly, but she was out after the show, so it probably wouldn't have been too difficult to get her to sign it. Oh, well.
Yesterday was the forty-fourth birthday of David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, and the forty-eight birthday of Johnny Hickman, his bandmate from the latter. Happy belated birthday to those two crackers.
I still haven't gotten my label to send back my extra cell phone. I hope that comes soon.
bethje for that last one, since she made me watch Full House reruns before I went to bed.) There was another part in the dream (or possibly a different dream; it's sometimes hard to tell the difference) where my mom and I wanted to go to Alaska, but not the Canadian part. I think we were actually there at one point, and it was very warm for Alaska. We were in a field across from a gas station where Blur was having a concert.There have been times when I thought it might be a fun idea to write some kind of crossover between Oz and video games, especially Super Mario Bros. And other times I've decided that idea was stupid and corny. Regardless, I think that makes more sense than a crossover between Oz and Perry Mason or Red Dwarf, both of which have actually been done.
Anyway, last night, Beth and I went to the Tin Angel to see Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor. It was a good show, although pretty much all the songs were kind of low-key. I'd never heard Nora before, but I thought she and Kelly worked well together. They did introductions before most of the songs. One of Kelly's was a song (I believe it was called "Golden") that she had written for Neko Case when she was having a bad day. They also did a cover of "Papa Was A Rodeo," one of my favorite Magnetic Fields songs. Kelly mentioned that it was written by Stephin Merritt, and that she'd "like to punch him in the nose with [her] love." Another song they did was called "Whispering Pines," originally by The Band (not to be confused with Johnny Horton's song of the same name, which I'd actually heard before), which Kelly said she had originally done with backing vocals by Edith Frost. I mention this because I seem to recall hearing that
jazzsammich once played with a band that opened for Edith. Like they say at Walt Disney World, it's a small world, I suppose. Anyway, it was a good show, if a poorly attended one. I think there were less than twenty people in the audience, which was disappointing. We did get to sit right in the front, though. I kind of wish I had brought the poster I bought back when I saw Kelly perform with Neko and Carolyn Mark, because I managed to get Neko's and Carolyn's signatures on it, but not Kelly's. We didn't meet Kelly, but she was out after the show, so it probably wouldn't have been too difficult to get her to sign it. Oh, well.Yesterday was the forty-fourth birthday of David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, and the forty-eight birthday of Johnny Hickman, his bandmate from the latter. Happy belated birthday to those two crackers.
I still haven't gotten my label to send back my extra cell phone. I hope that comes soon.
