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...make a post about my weekend, which saw us attending and enjoying the heck out of a concert and a movie on Saturday and Sunday.
Beck & the National Symphony Orchestra What a blast. This was the fourth (alas, not fifth) time I've seem Beck live, and the first show where he got to focus on stuff from Sea Change and Morning Phase over the big albums. He also, to his very evident delight, played a bunch of covers of obscure British and French artists. ("Think of this as $100,000 karaoke," he said at one point.) The NSO was unsurprisingly fabulous. The conductor's shimmy rivaled Beck's, and I also spent a lot of time watching the oboist. ("You guys really don't get to do much," said the GC. Which is true, but when we do get those 4-6 bars, it is our moment to shine.)
From memory (and in no particular order), they played Cycle, Morning, Lost Cause, One Foot In The Grave, New Pollution, Paper Tiger, Waking Light, and a song called Tarantula that Beck apparently composed for a movie soundtrack, and which could have been a Siouxsie-Sioux B-side. The show closed with the symphony's exit and Beck and his longtime touring band doing the crowd pleasers: Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, and Loser...and also Mixed Bizness, which is my favorite from Midnight Vultures (yes, even more than Debra), and which I had never before seen him perform live. So that was excellent.
The show was at a local outdoor venue, which has great acoustics and a BYO food and drink policy, and two of our friends got there super early so we had a great spot on the lawn with an excellent view of the stage. The weather was great, and we brought far more to eat drink than we were able to consume. It was, all around, an absolutely excellent event.
Deadpool & Wolverine Exceeded my high expectations; will watch again (and again). ( Cut for spoilers. )
The whole thing was a great ride from start to finish, it's my favorite of the movies yet, and I hope they mean it when they say "till 90."
これで以上です。
Beck & the National Symphony Orchestra What a blast. This was the fourth (alas, not fifth) time I've seem Beck live, and the first show where he got to focus on stuff from Sea Change and Morning Phase over the big albums. He also, to his very evident delight, played a bunch of covers of obscure British and French artists. ("Think of this as $100,000 karaoke," he said at one point.) The NSO was unsurprisingly fabulous. The conductor's shimmy rivaled Beck's, and I also spent a lot of time watching the oboist. ("You guys really don't get to do much," said the GC. Which is true, but when we do get those 4-6 bars, it is our moment to shine.)
From memory (and in no particular order), they played Cycle, Morning, Lost Cause, One Foot In The Grave, New Pollution, Paper Tiger, Waking Light, and a song called Tarantula that Beck apparently composed for a movie soundtrack, and which could have been a Siouxsie-Sioux B-side. The show closed with the symphony's exit and Beck and his longtime touring band doing the crowd pleasers: Where It's At, Devil's Haircut, and Loser...and also Mixed Bizness, which is my favorite from Midnight Vultures (yes, even more than Debra), and which I had never before seen him perform live. So that was excellent.
The show was at a local outdoor venue, which has great acoustics and a BYO food and drink policy, and two of our friends got there super early so we had a great spot on the lawn with an excellent view of the stage. The weather was great, and we brought far more to eat drink than we were able to consume. It was, all around, an absolutely excellent event.
Deadpool & Wolverine Exceeded my high expectations; will watch again (and again). ( Cut for spoilers. )
The whole thing was a great ride from start to finish, it's my favorite of the movies yet, and I hope they mean it when they say "till 90."
これで以上です。
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