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The promised heat has reliably arrived when promised; the promised rain, alas, rarely has. (But when it has, it's reliably been when I'm out and about trying to do something and not when I'm at home armed with a book and a chair on the balcony ready to enjoy it.)
Despite uncooperative weather, though, we've been up to a fair amount recently:
And So I Watch You From Afar & Caspian: We had tickets to see Caspian and Maserati in 2024, but then, you know, the world ended. So we were very happy not only to get a chance to actually see Caspian, but see them with ASIWYFA, who are one of the post rock greats mainstays I never thought I'd have a chance to see live, given that they're based in Belfast.
They were excellent. They played a good range of tracks from across their entire discography, including several from their upcoming album, which was super exciting to hear. And it was just as good watching ASIWYFA play as it was to listen to them. Like, damn, these guys are technically amazing, and the crowd was both appreciative of and really into it. "Heh heh" laughed someone in the audience during a perfectly timed rest in one of their bangers. "Your drummer is really good!" yelled someone else at another point. ("Yeah, we think so too," the main guitarist replied.) And the band was just genuinely pleased to be in this specific city, playing this specific venue, and touring with Caspian.
Caspian was excellent too. It was great to finally see them live, and hear them play a ton of stuff from across their back catalogue. They went for a moody, backlit stage presentation, so it wasn't possible to watch what they were doing like we could with ASIWYFA, but they put on a crazily energetic show and nailed all the tracks they played live. It sounded as good or better than their recordings, which is really what I want out of a live show. And Caspian was also just very pleased to be out touring, and in the city (their lead guitarist grew up in SE), and very into the crowd and how into them we were. Just a really great show all around.
July Crab Feast with the standard GBBQ suspects. Intended to be outdoors, but reliably, it rained. So we crammed into a GBBQ member's garage, and ate a ton.
GBBQ Dinner Intended to be outdoors, but reliably, it rained. So we crammed into Host's apartment and ate a ton of seven pepper steaks, swordfish, greens, corn, you name it (although pan fried, alas, not grilled). Also excellent was discovering that Host is a huge post metal fan. Also also excellent was discovering that Other Guest, who all already knew was a metal fan, is also into tarot; he recced me a book on A.E. Waite that I hadn't know about yet.
In gaming news, I am really enjoying:
MtG Bloomburrow is probably my favorite set in...I don't know how long. The art is my mental images of Redwall, Wind in the Willows, and Beatrix Potter all rolled up onto physical cards and I love it. Forget playing with this set, I just want to look at it. Seriously guys, these cards are a mood.
Xadia Yes to all the Dragon Prince content, please. The graphics are good, the production is good, and I love spending more time with all these characters...now if it would just stop being so buggy...
これで以上です。
The promised heat has reliably arrived when promised; the promised rain, alas, rarely has. (But when it has, it's reliably been when I'm out and about trying to do something and not when I'm at home armed with a book and a chair on the balcony ready to enjoy it.)
Despite uncooperative weather, though, we've been up to a fair amount recently:
And So I Watch You From Afar & Caspian: We had tickets to see Caspian and Maserati in 2024, but then, you know, the world ended. So we were very happy not only to get a chance to actually see Caspian, but see them with ASIWYFA, who are one of the post rock greats mainstays I never thought I'd have a chance to see live, given that they're based in Belfast.
They were excellent. They played a good range of tracks from across their entire discography, including several from their upcoming album, which was super exciting to hear. And it was just as good watching ASIWYFA play as it was to listen to them. Like, damn, these guys are technically amazing, and the crowd was both appreciative of and really into it. "Heh heh" laughed someone in the audience during a perfectly timed rest in one of their bangers. "Your drummer is really good!" yelled someone else at another point. ("Yeah, we think so too," the main guitarist replied.) And the band was just genuinely pleased to be in this specific city, playing this specific venue, and touring with Caspian.
Caspian was excellent too. It was great to finally see them live, and hear them play a ton of stuff from across their back catalogue. They went for a moody, backlit stage presentation, so it wasn't possible to watch what they were doing like we could with ASIWYFA, but they put on a crazily energetic show and nailed all the tracks they played live. It sounded as good or better than their recordings, which is really what I want out of a live show. And Caspian was also just very pleased to be out touring, and in the city (their lead guitarist grew up in SE), and very into the crowd and how into them we were. Just a really great show all around.
July Crab Feast with the standard GBBQ suspects. Intended to be outdoors, but reliably, it rained. So we crammed into a GBBQ member's garage, and ate a ton.
GBBQ Dinner Intended to be outdoors, but reliably, it rained. So we crammed into Host's apartment and ate a ton of seven pepper steaks, swordfish, greens, corn, you name it (although pan fried, alas, not grilled). Also excellent was discovering that Host is a huge post metal fan. Also also excellent was discovering that Other Guest, who all already knew was a metal fan, is also into tarot; he recced me a book on A.E. Waite that I hadn't know about yet.
In gaming news, I am really enjoying:
MtG Bloomburrow is probably my favorite set in...I don't know how long. The art is my mental images of Redwall, Wind in the Willows, and Beatrix Potter all rolled up onto physical cards and I love it. Forget playing with this set, I just want to look at it. Seriously guys, these cards are a mood.
Xadia Yes to all the Dragon Prince content, please. The graphics are good, the production is good, and I love spending more time with all these characters...now if it would just stop being so buggy...
これで以上です。
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