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the end of an era
started my new schedule this week (6 to 2:30)...it's really not as bad as i thought it would be...frighteningly, i actually like the work part of it...it's SO slow for the first couple hour and the work day just feels shorter...i've been taking naps after getting off and i'm actually used to it...i've been tired coming in after five hours of sleep or so but it doesn't feel so bad...of course, this schedule isn't so good for things outside work (which is what really matters) but it hasn't been so bad as i would've thought, but if anything unexpected goes wrong or whatever i could really be fucked...and what's weird i think i might actually miss it when i move on in a couple of weeks, though i sure as hell won't regret not having it anymore...i wouldn't've thought i'd get so used to breaking my sleep up, but i'm really used to it already...
anyway, last night was the David Byrne show (playing the songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno)...it was pretty good...the new stuff as might be expected wasn't so great...it wasn't terrible, but for the most part just kinda meh...kinda boring a few songs were alright and there were moments throughout, nothing i'd rush out and buy (or even pick up if i eventually ran across it used...) the majority of the older material played was the obvious stuff...i was expecting more stuff from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts but he only played one song "Help Me Somebody" (i guess the stuff on that album was more difficult to pull off live or whatever...) the only song they did from More Songs about Buildings and Food was "Take Me to the River" (though Teenie Hodges, the guy who cowrote the song, came out and played it with them, so i guess that's something and probably why they played it more than anything...and i know that album was mostly earlier songs that just didn't get recorded til later with Eno so it's less a collaboration, but i was hoping to hear a little more from that album...) the songs he did from Fear of Music: "I Zimbra," "Heaven," and "Life during Wartime"...the songs from Remain in Light: "Houses in Motion," "Crosseyed and Painless," "Once in a Lifetime," and "The Great Curve"...i think maybe out of all the songs i wanted to hear them play "The Great Curve" was the one i wanted to hear the most (that song's been in my head so much lately...like that album as a whole i didn't think much of it when i got it at first but it's grown on me so much and is now WAY up there in my regard for their catalog as a whole...) though the performance of it wasn't that great, not bad, but just compared to the album not so as-good..."Houses in Motion" however was the highlight of the show and it really fuckin' killed...it was totally fuckin' badass and made the show worth it...the second best song performance-wise was "Help Me Somebody"...
okay, and in book news yesterday i finished reading My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk and i just now finished reading Jazz by Toni Morrison...
anyway, last night was the David Byrne show (playing the songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno)...it was pretty good...the new stuff as might be expected wasn't so great...it wasn't terrible, but for the most part just kinda meh...kinda boring a few songs were alright and there were moments throughout, nothing i'd rush out and buy (or even pick up if i eventually ran across it used...) the majority of the older material played was the obvious stuff...i was expecting more stuff from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts but he only played one song "Help Me Somebody" (i guess the stuff on that album was more difficult to pull off live or whatever...) the only song they did from More Songs about Buildings and Food was "Take Me to the River" (though Teenie Hodges, the guy who cowrote the song, came out and played it with them, so i guess that's something and probably why they played it more than anything...and i know that album was mostly earlier songs that just didn't get recorded til later with Eno so it's less a collaboration, but i was hoping to hear a little more from that album...) the songs he did from Fear of Music: "I Zimbra," "Heaven," and "Life during Wartime"...the songs from Remain in Light: "Houses in Motion," "Crosseyed and Painless," "Once in a Lifetime," and "The Great Curve"...i think maybe out of all the songs i wanted to hear them play "The Great Curve" was the one i wanted to hear the most (that song's been in my head so much lately...like that album as a whole i didn't think much of it when i got it at first but it's grown on me so much and is now WAY up there in my regard for their catalog as a whole...) though the performance of it wasn't that great, not bad, but just compared to the album not so as-good..."Houses in Motion" however was the highlight of the show and it really fuckin' killed...it was totally fuckin' badass and made the show worth it...the second best song performance-wise was "Help Me Somebody"...
okay, and in book news yesterday i finished reading My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk and i just now finished reading Jazz by Toni Morrison...