Dinner

Mary Beth and I went to see the Indie Memphis screening of Babbette's Feast. Still good. Excited about tonight 'cuz we got a package where they're recreating or somewhat recreating the dinner from the movie at Restaurant Iris! After that we went up to the P&H to see Lydia Lunch! We got there while Big Clown was playing. They've got a bunch of people from other bands that I like, but what I heard of their music didn't do a whole lot for me, just kinda hardcore punk stuff. Then Strengths played and they were good. Then it was Lydia Lunch! She did more of a spoken word thing than when we saw her last year (which was mostly song-songs, really good and noisy). She still had Tim Dahl and Weasel Walter with her (no Bob Bert this time, Weasel was back on drums instead of guitar). They did kinda free-jazz noise explosions (mostly between her speaking, though sometimes accompanying or overlapping). It was a really good show. I picked up a little bit of merch, a couple of cds: Lydia Lunch & Cypress Grove: Under the Covers and The Flying Luttenbachers: Shattered Dimension, as well as a book: So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch. The show didn't end too terribly late, but I still didn't get too much sleep last night. Work was alright today though. Sterling and I were mostly holed up on the mostly empty "ground floor." We made pretty good headway into the first and biggest api that we're tackling so I feel pretty alright about our progress so far!