Your Boring Saturday Night

am rewatching deadwood s1

later I will be heading out to a Rick Springfield concert, so I guess my night doesnt entirely qualify as boring :)

I might watch deadwood at some point. I don't know who rick springfield is.

he had some hits in the 80's ie Jessie's Girl. cute, sings nice pop songs

unfortunately i always find it hard to remember that he wished he had Jessie's girl as opposed to wishing he was her

a more compelling song imo

lol otm

my wife's out of town at a bachelorette party, my toddler son is asleep in the other room. i'm eating some sauteed broccoli rabe and am deciding whether to watch meek's cutoff or some wire reruns.

Luby's take out dinners with best friends and daughter. Discussed Stories We Tell (2012). Good conversation over mediocre comfort food hit the spot. Now, hot tea and silence.

went to see my bf play covers with his bandmates at a local spot. ate vegan mac & cheese and a bit of spicy hummus.

"am rewatching deadwood s1"

I recently rewatched S3 and enjoyed it a lot more than the first viewing during which I missed the odd ep and was a bit meh. The maverick villain George Hearst character is so despicably brilliant, he runs roughshod over Al + Cy and when he sends his henchman for a fight to the death with Dan in probably the most brutal fight scene ever. Oh and Cox constantly hamming is just beautiful. It is a dreadful business that this got bumped when it was showing no lag and still full of potential.

Hearst is a fascinating villain to me, so full of contradictions & violence

Like he walked right off the pages of Blood Meridian

Last time we rewatched deadwood, kind of disappointed in season 3. Mainly because I knew how unresolved it would end, so I just was sad the whole time.

But I think my favorite parts of deadwood is how psychotic Cy is.

love Cy

Calamity's my favorite

Milch's next show The Money, about a dynastic NY media family with Brendon Gleeson should be a good one, knowing his luck it will probably be brilliant and get bumped.

Also his Tamanay Hall one

Actually don't think The Money got picked up iirc

rain

thunder

Could use some of that down here

wow, can't believe only TWO PEOPLE are on ilx tonight

still haven't had dinner yet

might watch Grand Budapest Hotel, or new Muppets movie, or just futz around searching for stuff on amazon prime to add to my watchlist. weeee

Loaded up on snacks from trader joes in preparation for NFL action. Now I'm catching up on season 4 of Sons of Anarchy

yeah the thunderstorm & flood warning ruined my plans for tonight. I'm at home alone.

Last sat. nite was great though - impromptu jam session in our backyard. I'm moving soon, and will miss living someplace where you do such things and get away with it.

productive day so far. i was re-reading a book about ford earlier, which i'm sure all ilxors will rejoice to hear

Madox Henry Richard or Harrison

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Skittles and colby jack cubes.

My days off rn are all about making the same terrible decisions over and over again and then mourning them.

food: bbq chicken sandwich and seasoned fries (only ate some of this bc too much food but it was great)
drink: glass of chardonnay, which was whatever
entertainment: the last night of the step & repeat concert series at the moca geffen contemporary. stephen malkmus and the jicks were lots of fun, but the other acts on the bill (spoken word, video artists, neil hamburger) i could have done without.

tim hecker was supposed to do a 10-hour sound installation, but he backed out because the technical specs weren't right -- i was really bummed about that because it was one of the big selling points of the night for me.

listening to Roxy Music (Flesh & Blood)
reading my new library book - historical fiction thing abt 17th c Amsterdam, it's vv good
gonna eat some chicken & some kale
& later will eat an icecream sandwich
maybe watch some more of Ken Burns Jazz

kind of more eventful than normal, feeling v proud of my saturday night atm

this reminds me
there is a local joint that has no store, but sells cookies via direct delivery (catering) and has ice cream sandwiches (ice cream between two cookies) in local grocery stores

I looked at their website after some cookies were delivered to a coworker and it's 1.5 blocks from my house!

I know they don't sell directly out their place, but I keep having this thought in the back of my head,
GO RAID THE COOKIE JOINT

There's some great (and sometimes tremendous) footage/insights in some of the installments of Mr. Burns' Jazz. But (spoiler alert) significant portions of Episode 10 are revisionist history and/or outright lies.

(he said while spending a Saturday night listening to a boxed set by Anthony Braxton, who goes unmentioned in the series)

xp to VG

Ken Burns vs. Wynton Marsalis -- which is the most hated among free jazz/EFI ppl?

Went way uptown intending to hear Cornel West speak about religion and revolution; accidentally ended up at a Bob Avakian rally (because Bob spoke first and didn't stop for ALMOST TWO HOURS). Nearly starved to death despite having eaten lunch just before leaving. 8 hours later, finally got back home.

made the mistake of saying "this guy is a douche" to a comment from a friend on fb indicating she was going to go see Richard Dawkins speak

Who am I kidding, he's a douche

Have already found some odd moments in KB Jazz, ie minstrelsy was handled v strangely

Marsalis seemed like a weird choice since most of what he says seems to be made up on the fly, like it sounds pretty but huh?

Dont have much on early jazz bios though, so the profiles are kinda interesting to me

Get the feeling this will handle late period jazz in the same pathetic way he handled modern baseball "yadda yadda it's not as pure now anyway APPLE PIE U GUYS"

civil war is him at his least irritating imo

Ken Burns vs. Wynton Marsalis -- which is the most hated among free jazz/EFI ppl?

Ha, well, Burns basically deferred to Marsalis and Stanley Crouch (who, pre-neo-con, was actually a pretty good drummer in the new music, cf. the Wildflowers series on Casablanca). Crouch has many more insights than Marsalis in the series -- it seems like Wynton is trying/failing to pontificate in a similar manner -- but they were both consultants, and both apparently chose to lionize Dexter Gordon for only finding a following in Europe while simultaneously ridiculing the Art Ensemble Of Chicago for only finding a following in Europe.

Also, according to Wynton, Miles went electric after recording and releasing two albums with electric piano (one of which had electric bass). Now we know.

are we still talking about boring saturday nights? i am listening to itunes on shuffle, contemplating having some barbecue for dinner at a local place, and thinking about finishing up an end-of-year thing i'm contributing to one of the places where i write.

I just listened to this radio interview with Momus from a few years back. Some interesting talk of his experience with this borad (though he doesn't mention it by name).

I've done two loads of laundry and drank two bottles of stout. My wife is making cookies.

Also on a laundry tip. Kids are upstairs playing Minecraft. Wife took her dad out for dinner for his birthday. Glass of box wine. Listening to the never-fail Saturday night "Block Party" on WWOZ. Tonight they're playing all 45s from the '60s and '70s that I've never heard of. Disco-funk version of "Moon River." Barbara Lynn. Lee Moses. Things could be worse.

Watching various muppet Christmas specials like The Christmas Toy and Emmit Otter with the family. Enjoyed with some egg nog + bourbon.

putting up the christmas tree with ye olde yuletide fireplace dvd on the telly

aaaaaaaaaaand trying to figure out wtf is wrong with my christmas music playlist ragh itunes

a good spatlese riesling, some cheap brandy, some talisker, some other wine, a box of chocolate marzipans, now home and going through today's postmatch interviews with selected epl managers and playing some charles ives tracks

Watched a Dvdscr of Nightcreeper and drank some nice strong Leffe, woke up later and carried on drinking. Looking forward to tomorrow's Geminid meteor shower.

transcribed an interview that a friend did with a guy who's the rabbinical consultant on religion-themed hollywood movies.

ate some leftover breaded cod and trader joe's "reduced guilt" mac & cheese.

made this important cat video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbjeuAR-kZY

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