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Drinking: Ginger Peach tea out of one of my favorite arts festival mugs (light green with a sort of ropey design, a gift from Kim)
Listening: Robyn Hitchcock-Globe of Frogs (the album, on vinyl)
Web activity: Ordering Classic Elite Fall 2006 pattern books Second Edition and Tweed Four. These are the best Classic Elite patterns I’ve seen in years, probably in large part due to the fact that Kathy Zimmerman, queen of beautiful cables, is their guest designer this season.
Perusing: The Fall 2006 issue of Interweave Knits. It’s the first of my new subscription. Up to now the only knitting mag I subscribed to was Vogue Knitting. I’m keeping up my VK subscription, but I’ve liked enough of IK over the last few years that it seemed worth it to subscribe. I’m considering (someday) knitting Saffron Cables (another Kathy Zimmerman!).
Last concert: Saw X and Rollins Band last night with Amy and Doug at Avalon. We’d have been just as happy to have skipped Rollins. He was loud, the music was redundant, his lyrics were pretty lame. He seems like a not entirely stupid person; I can’t help feeling he could do better. A (solo) career built around loud, confident, and exceedingly vague and therefore dangerous pronouncements, along with a lot of spraying of various bodily fluids, seems pretty disappointing for someone who might be able to do more. It was kind of funny though… we were “treated” to a lotta lotta testosterone and the inevitable pit. As pits go, it could have been worse/less appropriate, I guess.
X were much more worthwhile all around. The setlist drew heavily from their early albums, and I can’t really complain as I love those records. I’m sad they didn’t play “Adult Books,” especially as I’ve heard that they’ve played it at other recent shows. But “We’re Desperate,” “Sugarlight,” etc. were still great. Billy Zoom is the cupie doll of the universe. I’m not really a guitarist, but he sounded pretty flawless to me. I wasn’t about to try to get my camera into Avalon, and I didn’t think to borrow Ezra’s, but Amy and Doug grabbed a couple of good snapshots.
