The Ramblings of Rev. Karl

I want to take a moment to pimp out the Kiva reunion concert coming up August 8th in Silver Spring, MD. Details at http://www.kivasong.com/schedule/current.html. The concert promises to be awesome with Amikaeyla and Jaqui MacMillan joining them along with many past members including Lynn Cunningham who some of you might know better from the Pyrates Royale.

Cerridwen's Coffeehouse returns with a special concert featuring Owain Phyfe and Kiva, Saturday the 17th. I'll be there enjoying auditory awesomeness. For all the details check out http://www.cerridwin.org/.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I was a most excellent birthday.

They Might Be Giants final encore from last night

From zammis, her AMV project from class, all video is from the anime "Fruits Basket," each video represent one element from the Chinese system.

Wood - Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
Fire - Frank Sinatra "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me"
Earth - Fruits Basket theme
Metal - Gary Jules "Mad World"
Water - Duran Duran "What Happens Tomorrow"

Another quick plug for the Frederick Celtic Festival, it's a small festival, but they have a great line up of bands including Enter the Haggis, Hunting McLeod, and Rant & Roar. If you're looking for something to do this Saturday come out and join us.

Today's commute:

For My Lover - Tracy Chapman
Strange Land - Clannad
I Believe - Maire Brennan
It's For You - Three Dog Night
Put a Lid on It - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Jump - David Lee Roth/John Jorgenson Blues Band
Mahna, Mahna - The Muppets
Four Nights Drunk - Steeleye Span
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Whistling in the Dark - They Might Be Giants
Silver Spear - Slainte Mhath
Love for Sale - Dr. John
Inverigo - Thea Gilmore
Poundcake - Van Halen
Away in a Madhouse - H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
Down by the Seaside - Led Zeppelin
All Along the Watchtower - U2
Mammal - They Might Be Giants
The Longest Time - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I'm Only Happy When it Rains - Garbage

Because I know there are a few fans here - The Pogues (including Shane) are coming the the 930 club March 9th. Tickets go on sale in a 1/2 hour.

Been awhile since I did meaningless meme, so, thanks to sweetpea86

( some music )

Ok, now I'm curious, due to castalusoria's post I was reading Wikipedia and came across an entry for Mairzy Doats - I had forgotten about this song, but as a kid it was my absolute favorite song of all time. The deep and meaningful lyrics go:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."

So I'm wondering what are other peoples favorite kid songs?
You know, the one you made your parents play over and over and over again when you were like 5 years old.

Amused that is was an Australian that pointed this article out to me (thanks, drjon).

Washington Post's experiment of having a famous classical musician busking at L'enfant station during rush hour and recording the reactions.

Well worth reading.

I did make it to the Frederick Celtic Festival, though I didn't stay long. Only thing on note was discovering the excellent band, Albannach. The have a sound similar to The Rogues, but with more cowbell, I mean drums, lots more drums. Anyway, if you're into the Celtic music thing check them out.

McGinty's meets with my approval. It still had that new paint smell, but the food was good and Scythian were their usual awesome selves. Very nice performance space. The TVs weren't hooked up yet so we had to pop over to Austen Grill to see GMU set spanked.

Feeling a little sick today so will probably stay home.

This Friday I'll be gaming at GCOM-Middletown. GCOM also has games going on in Fairfax, Silver Spring, Rockville, and Reisterstown the same day and speaking of gaming, we're only a month away from GCOM Game Days - one of the best small gaming conventions in our area.

Most of Saturday will be spent helping a friend clean out their house. In the evening plan on heading out to Silver Spring's newest Irish pub - kindly pointed out by young_egotist, watch the GMU game (go Patriots!), and see Scythian play - if you want to hear some awesome Celtic rock come and join us.

Sunday will by working on my own house and maybe going out to see random221b in The Man Who Came to Dinner in Alexandria. Somewhere in there I'd like to find time to finally see V for Vendetta as well.

Also since geekchick reminded me: Tempest at Jammin' Java next Wednesday.

Brunswick is looking for people to play at various city sponsored events - there's a brief blurb in the middle of the page here. You can also e-mail Brunswick's recreation person (Geri Reynolds) at recreation@brunswickmd.gov for more details.

A group some of my artist/musician/theater friends may be interested in: Omaemoda.

According to sharrainchains they are currently looking for acoustic musical acts, stand-up comedians, poetry readings, dancers, etc. to perform in the festival they have scheduled for December 1-4 in Adams Morgan.

( Intercon, Faire, and Dead Can Dance, oh my! )

Gaming this Saturday in Brunswick

Tempest tonight at Jammin Java

Dump of lots of stuff.

From last weekend . . .

Music, the revelmoon concert was awesome. We should definitely get them for FSG, hey citabria, do you know who's doing music next year? I also really liked Rene Carawan.

Tubing was lots of fun, good to see peeps, survived the heat ok, being in the water definitely helps.

Next weekend I'll be at the psuedo-LARP Stardust which means spending an entire weekend in the heat, but it'll be worth it because:

1. wylddelirium will be there


2. I need to take a look at the site before it's time to use it for In the Dark Times. BTW, we hope to have a registration page up for Dark Times within the next month or so.


3. I'll be able to wear a skirt

The weekend after - I'll be hosting gaming in Brunswick Saturday the 27th. Gaming at Beans in the Belfry worked well last time so we'll do it again. More details.
Sunday I'll have free. I might go to faire, the prospect of seeing violetmoo and other peeps is tempting, but I'm not going to go if it looks like it'll be hot, which is likely.

Labor day weekend is TCEP with lots of gaming goodness. Yay!

After that I'll probably be spending most of my weekends at faire.

Upcoming concerts:
8/23 Tempest at Jammin Java
8/29 Wolfstone/Seven Nations at Birchmere
10/6 Gaelic Storm at Birchmere
10/10 Dead Can Dance at Strathmore
also Spamalot 10/26 - friendly reminder to those that owe me money for tickets.

Other fall events - I'm still undecided about Intercon (probably not) and Healing the Spirit (probably).

And in completely unrelated news - Puppeteers are suspected terrorists - chrisv, what did you do?

Saturday I plan to spend much of the day in Leesburg at Esoterica's music festival listening to revelmoon and others. Anyone want to come with?

Sunday it'll be water tubing with macdobhran and company. Yay.

Speaking of Concerts . . .
geekchick pointed out that Dead Can Dance are coming to DC in October - Details.

The Thea Gilmore show last night was awesome, hardly anyone there either - next time she's in town I'm dragging more of you with me. Esp. since she promised me she'd play my favorite song next time.

In other news, work has finally bought me Dreamweaver. Happy day.