Labor Lifetime
5 September 2000
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Labor Lifetime
5 September 2000
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11:20 PM: Sigh. Young Penny and I saw Kristin Hersh Friday night. She's so good, she's so cute, she's so weird! Mon peu de coeur va pitterpat.
She did an acoustic set, mostly songs from the new CD she has coming out ... early next year? I think. I hadn't seen her play only acoustic before. It puts the focus mostly on her voice and her lyrics - though you can tell how strange the music is, too. Especially by comparison to the opening act, someone named Martha. Painful. The Anti-Hersh : earnest, plodding, banal lyrics set to pedestrian strumming, trying to fix anything by GETTING REALLY LOUD. Doesn't work. Then Kristin Hersh comes out and does a song like "You Didn't Disappoint Me" - "We're a match made in purgatory."
Waddelse? I got stir-crazy of working and running goddamn PHP and Apache makefiles over and over and over, so I gave up early Saturday and went out and bought Breakthroughs, the latest installment in Harry Turtledove's alternative World War I series. Pretty good, pretty much like the rest of his stuff - meaning if you go there for the prose, you've been misinformed. I think we're being set up for a second tetralogy after this one, with the Confederate States of America playing the role of Nazi Germany, complete with Final Solution.
Then Monday, we all went to see Bring It On, which I liked a lot, and yes for reasons other than watching Eliza Dushku bounce around on the big screen. Kirsten Dunst was in it too! O, I am amusing, am I not!
Seriously, silly movie. As Saul put it, "Good jokes, heart in the right place, and firm thighs - what more can you ask from a cheerleading movie?"
Willfully blind self-indulgent nebbish or amusingly quirky old coot? And how bout that local sports team? Discuss among yourselves.
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