Cunctating
I can't get TurboTax to work on my computer. It worked fine last year; this year, it keeps crashing. Then again, my computer is not the healthiest little box of transistors this side of Seattle...
So, while I await with baited breath the opportunity to give the government my money, here's what I've done with my vacation so far:
Buddy Miller was a good show. He's a sort of country/roots-rock type. I brought P. along and was a bit nervous because although I am constantly amazed that I'm not a church-choir-singing fiddle-playing country girl, I realize this is not everyone's cup of tea. I think he liked but didn't love the show, fine with me. Buddy and his wife Julie were nominated for a Contemporary Folk Music Oscar a few years ago, and he was nominated in the Gospel & Bluegrass category this year. As he says, when he lost the first Oscar to Dylan, well, that was practically winning in itself! Ollabelle opened, a very cute Americana band whom I've been trying to see for a few months. Buddy Miller came out in his trucker's cap and played several songs with them, quietly playing guitar, not hogging the spotlight in any way. I liked that. Then he and his band came out. They played a lot of covers - Taj Mahal, Dylan (With God on Our Side), and others - and some songs written by Julie, and some of their own songs. It was a completely non-hip crowd, which is refreshing. People shouted comments and suggestions to the band, and, more often than not, they got an answer, a story, a request played.
Last night, I watched How to Draw a Bunny, a documentary about the artist Ray Johnson, whose collages are beautiful and humorous, and who lived his life as a piece of performance art, up to and including his death. He must have been in a lot of pain and very isolated, yet that was a life he chose or did not know any other way to live. I've seen a lot of art recently that is beautiful to look at but has so little to say - it's like really, really cool wallpaper - and I have to say that this man's work fascinates me, because it seems simple and yet contains depth and meaning.
There's something to celebrate in blogland!
So, while I await with baited breath the opportunity to give the government my money, here's what I've done with my vacation so far:
Buddy Miller was a good show. He's a sort of country/roots-rock type. I brought P. along and was a bit nervous because although I am constantly amazed that I'm not a church-choir-singing fiddle-playing country girl, I realize this is not everyone's cup of tea. I think he liked but didn't love the show, fine with me. Buddy and his wife Julie were nominated for a Contemporary Folk Music Oscar a few years ago, and he was nominated in the Gospel & Bluegrass category this year. As he says, when he lost the first Oscar to Dylan, well, that was practically winning in itself! Ollabelle opened, a very cute Americana band whom I've been trying to see for a few months. Buddy Miller came out in his trucker's cap and played several songs with them, quietly playing guitar, not hogging the spotlight in any way. I liked that. Then he and his band came out. They played a lot of covers - Taj Mahal, Dylan (With God on Our Side), and others - and some songs written by Julie, and some of their own songs. It was a completely non-hip crowd, which is refreshing. People shouted comments and suggestions to the band, and, more often than not, they got an answer, a story, a request played.
Last night, I watched How to Draw a Bunny, a documentary about the artist Ray Johnson, whose collages are beautiful and humorous, and who lived his life as a piece of performance art, up to and including his death. He must have been in a lot of pain and very isolated, yet that was a life he chose or did not know any other way to live. I've seen a lot of art recently that is beautiful to look at but has so little to say - it's like really, really cool wallpaper - and I have to say that this man's work fascinates me, because it seems simple and yet contains depth and meaning.
There's something to celebrate in blogland!
posted by ms. v. at 12:48 PM
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