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An unrememberable event!
Graduation throw-down tonight. Show up early for outdoor activities (slackline, etc), or late for simple insanity.
All of the usual shenanigans. Also: the opportunity to burn school papers and your extra furniture.
For directions, click here.
For those who missed last year’s party:
the worst party ever
It’s 2:00 am on a Thursday night. Everyone in the house is up. The only open beer is the half-full glass sitting near my computer–left over from dinner. No one else is drinking. The Wii is off, and no one’s using the main computer. The lights–and fireplace–are on. Aside from Bovard’s headphones, it’s completely quiet.
Someone looks up, and laughs feebly.
“It must be dead week.”
In fact, it is. It’s Thursday night of dead week.
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Edit: (6:04 am … three of us are still going strong)
I just changed this sentence from:
The meat of Cannon’s biography, however, is the myriad telling details…
to:
The substance of Cannon’s biography, however, is the myriad telling details…
on the basis of an ideological objection.
“The meat of something” is an normalizing and loaded phrase. It equates meat with substance, which in turn equates meat with being important, essential, something without which a book/argument/idea is incomplete. Suggesting that a meal without meat is incomplete. Which I don’t buy.
In fact, it’s equivalent, I believe, to the phrase “the good part of,” implying that meat is good. I don’t contend that meat is bad, but I object to attaching a positive moral connotation to something that, when mass produced, does untold damage to the environment and, when mass consumed, does untold damage to one’s arteries and waistline!
Five inches of fresh snow!
Found on The Daily Show website:
“I don’t know a lot about waterboarding, but my knowledge of general science and basic comprehension tells me it’s probably a warmer version of snowboarding, and snowboarding has never produced an ounce of useful intelligence, so I’m going to have to side with Jon on this.”
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In other news … it’s snowing!
Album versus CD setlists
1. Set up the slackline in the yard. Sixty foot span. Tight as a drum skin.

2. Met the neighbors–in more of a hang out and talk sense than a say “Hello–what’s your name?”
3. $2 pints at Specs with the crew.
4. New circus trick … involving a giant wood spindle and awesome walking skills.
5) Discovery of “Stop Making Sense” — and completely re-evaluating my idea of a “concert video.”
Also, this cool thought:
Concert set lists are arranged differently from album set lists. Each follows a general formula, and the two formulas are generally different.
It’s like this: if there’s a band that’s touring to support it’s new album, here are the set lists I expect to see, listed in terms of relative (and consensus, not absolute) goodness of songs. Assume each as 12 songs. (In reality, of course, any concert is filled with past favorite songs, typically between song number three and eleven.)
Concert
1. #4-ish best song. Best song off of previous album. Something to build energy.
2. Something … a pretty good song.
3 – 8. Some “okay” songs punctuated by a few hits.
10. #2 best song, or another previous #1.
11. Pretty good song.
12. Probably #1 best song. Really get the crowd going.
CD
1. #2 best song.
2. #3,4,5, or 6 best song
3. #1 best song.
4-9. Pretty good songs.
10. #5 best song, doesn’t match the band’s perceived style.
11. #3 best song, doesn’t match the band’s perceived style, or some random song.
12. If 11 is not #3 best song, then #2 best song that doesn’t match the band’s perceived style.
Or, stated differently:
Concert
1 – 3: High energy openers
4 – 9: Sine-wave energy–moving from high to low to high or low to high to low energy.
10 – 12: High energy build up and finish.
Album
1. High energy opener.
2. Pretty high energy.
3. Most catchy song.
4 – 9: high to low energy.
10 & 11: low energy, soulful songs
12. Something completely random–and possibly quite good, but different from tracks 1 – 9.
But, of course, there are some exceptions–like when Pink Floyd toured for Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall, or when The Who toured for Tommy. In these instances, the concert and album set lists were the same.
Really, it’s not all that “profound”–but I still find it interesting to think about why the same set of songs would be arranged/ordered differently on an album than at a concert. Differences in the way that the respective mediums are consumed, I suppose. Invokes Jean Epstein and Stan Brakahge and theories of media specificity.
This would be interesting to compare: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band — concert versus album.