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May. 26th, 2019 11:40 amI finished with the rough draft of the story yesterday! I still have a bit of editing work to do as I type it up. It's way longer than anything I've written before, though it's been a long time since I've even written anything at all. Given the way I used to write, I probably could never have finished something this long. I used to be incapable of getting a sentence down until it was perfectly crafted in my head, which leads to lots of sitting around staring at the page, searching up the perfect word, etc. I still try to get it right the first time, but I've gotten better about accepting rough placeholders if I know it's going to hold me up too much or just drawing a blank on the page to figure out and fill in the right word later. Well, now I need to do all that! But I'm pretty happy about finishing the draft, feels like a big thing. And I even made it on (backup) schedule. Then later Mary Beth and I watched some Schitt's Creek before I went off to spend forever at shows.
First I went up to the Hi-Tone for the Omar Higgins tribute show. It started early, 6:15 and Revenge Body was up first so I went to see him. Almost no one was there that early but Jacques played a real good set as always. David was also there and I talked to him and Jacques a bit. The rest of the acts I was there for weren't really my thing (but IMAKEMADBEATS was up a little after I left, and I maybe actually should have stayed to at least catch his set! oh well). But I was there for a while before cutting over to the next show. It was crazy, there were five frickin' shows I would have liked to see last night. I went to the one at Artemisia Studios. I was thinking I was getting just a little "late" and in time for the music, but I was a bit too early (not as badly early as I'd initially feared when I got there and saw how few people were there yet but music started not much more than thirty minutes later). So I'm standing around a bit awkwardly alone and after not too long some guy comes up and talks to me. He introduces himself and I say my name and he's like "Oh, Robert T_?" and I'm like "uh, yeah, that's me." So that's a new thing, last name being recognized by first name alone. This was Cole and he works at Goner and went to Memphis Concrète last year. So we talked about Wolf Eyes (he also saw 'em there at at Glitch some years earlier) and he even saw Pharmakon up in New York like two weeks ago and said it was the best show he's ever seen, and he's usually not always too into noise or drone (sometimes but not always, he said). Anyway it was a nice if not surreal conversation and helped alleviate the awkwardness and the music started not too long after that. First up was Intimacy, local. His stuff was okay, dancey techno if not a little on the boring side and he played for a whole damn hour. A good bit of people had showed up for this and they were really into it and then most of them promptly left after he was done. So I felt a bit bad for the touring musicians. First up was Domestik from Chicago and his set was really good (the best of the night). It was a bit technoy and borderline dancey but the rhythms were nice and off-kilter. It reminded me a bit of LP5-era Autechre. After that was Unsay. Her stuff ranged from breakcore to ambient with shades between. A lot of it was really good. Huerco S was last (they're touring together, both from New York and both sharing the same equipment). He was good. Zach mentioned being familiar with him before the show and I listened to some of his latest album which is very ambient, though his earlier stuff is more techno-based. This was more in line with that, not very ambient, but it was good, with some interesting sounds and stuff. It ended pretty late so I was flagging a bit by the end. And I'm like almost the only one there throughout. As I'm leaving and walking to my car I hear a shout of "Robert" behind me. It's the guy who's Domestik who turns out is Drew who used to live in Memphis and was in Courtesy way back in the day and knows Jacques and also Jordan who put out my tape up there. Small world. It was a brief chat he wanted to say hi and was nice and I felt kinda bad 'cuz I'm old and was nearing out-of-it. But I got some sleep and am ready for this middle-of-the-weekend day!
First I went up to the Hi-Tone for the Omar Higgins tribute show. It started early, 6:15 and Revenge Body was up first so I went to see him. Almost no one was there that early but Jacques played a real good set as always. David was also there and I talked to him and Jacques a bit. The rest of the acts I was there for weren't really my thing (but IMAKEMADBEATS was up a little after I left, and I maybe actually should have stayed to at least catch his set! oh well). But I was there for a while before cutting over to the next show. It was crazy, there were five frickin' shows I would have liked to see last night. I went to the one at Artemisia Studios. I was thinking I was getting just a little "late" and in time for the music, but I was a bit too early (not as badly early as I'd initially feared when I got there and saw how few people were there yet but music started not much more than thirty minutes later). So I'm standing around a bit awkwardly alone and after not too long some guy comes up and talks to me. He introduces himself and I say my name and he's like "Oh, Robert T_?" and I'm like "uh, yeah, that's me." So that's a new thing, last name being recognized by first name alone. This was Cole and he works at Goner and went to Memphis Concrète last year. So we talked about Wolf Eyes (he also saw 'em there at at Glitch some years earlier) and he even saw Pharmakon up in New York like two weeks ago and said it was the best show he's ever seen, and he's usually not always too into noise or drone (sometimes but not always, he said). Anyway it was a nice if not surreal conversation and helped alleviate the awkwardness and the music started not too long after that. First up was Intimacy, local. His stuff was okay, dancey techno if not a little on the boring side and he played for a whole damn hour. A good bit of people had showed up for this and they were really into it and then most of them promptly left after he was done. So I felt a bit bad for the touring musicians. First up was Domestik from Chicago and his set was really good (the best of the night). It was a bit technoy and borderline dancey but the rhythms were nice and off-kilter. It reminded me a bit of LP5-era Autechre. After that was Unsay. Her stuff ranged from breakcore to ambient with shades between. A lot of it was really good. Huerco S was last (they're touring together, both from New York and both sharing the same equipment). He was good. Zach mentioned being familiar with him before the show and I listened to some of his latest album which is very ambient, though his earlier stuff is more techno-based. This was more in line with that, not very ambient, but it was good, with some interesting sounds and stuff. It ended pretty late so I was flagging a bit by the end. And I'm like almost the only one there throughout. As I'm leaving and walking to my car I hear a shout of "Robert" behind me. It's the guy who's Domestik who turns out is Drew who used to live in Memphis and was in Courtesy way back in the day and knows Jacques and also Jordan who put out my tape up there. Small world. It was a brief chat he wanted to say hi and was nice and I felt kinda bad 'cuz I'm old and was nearing out-of-it. But I got some sleep and am ready for this middle-of-the-weekend day!
