That Was a Good Show

Went to a great show last night at Black Lodge! Saw some friends and stuff, talked to Nate a good bit before the show, hadn't seen much of him since covid. Birmingham Sits Throned was first and his set was good. Behind his set, someone just had some psychedelic kind of screensaver thing going, but for the next act they picked Red Desert to play behind them so I was very excited about that. The next act was Jeremiah Carter & Kelby Clark, one of them playing upright bass and the other playing mandolin (update: looking back at my pictures, actually I think it was a violin) and a harmonium or something like it he was mostly squeezing with his legs. It was really good experimental stuff. Though being acoustic (though mic'ed by the venue) at times they got very quiet and there was this d&d game going on at the Black Lodge at the same time and they seemed to get very much louder during their set and very loud during these quiet parts as well. I get it's an unrelated event and I don't get annoyed like I used to when people would talk during sets, but they got pretty excessively loud with like a few screams or shouts and such during these quiet parts and that felt a bit much. But still real good show overall. Last was Artificer and their set was phenomenal. They even brought in a four-track tape machine they were using in their set and it was a very phenomenal set with lots of range and movement. The venue had let Red Desert keep running during their set too so I enjoyed seeing more of it!

Then came home not super late and Mary Beth and I watched a little Schitt's Creek and hung out on the back porch (sometimes with Peanut) talking. I'm on vacation (had took it off JUST-IN-CASE the Memphis Concrète thing was going to happen this coming weekend though it didn't) through Monday. So yeah, that was okay to sleep in quite a bit today. I actually woke up too early for about an hour but managed to get back to sleep.

Also, I forgot to mention yesterday something that I can't believe I forgot! So Tuesday night there was this deployment and I somehow completely forgot about it! But Ginny messaged me so I was able to jump on and it was okay because Om was stuck doing another deployment that went over at the same time. But yeah, I felt very dumb.