Grats on the scholarship, Acanthus. Make good use of it!
I just got back from the David Bromberg concert downtown, and it was amazing. It was his first time on tour in about 20 years, and he was touring with an interesting band that were Folk/Bluegrass, but with a bit of Jimmy Buffet thrown in. Their fiddler was my age, and was absolutely stunning, his playing ranging from jaunty Folk/Jazz improvisation to slow melodic bits that twice gave me shivers. I think I must learn Violin now, and bend it to similarly eclectic ends.
David Bromberg himself was an interesting man; great charisma, and though he couldn't quite hold a tune vocally, nor did he have the finger dexterity of his bandmates, he certainly had Soul, and a great spirit. He was a musician who was obviously in it for the fun, and his repertoire of styles and songs was impressive. He kept inviting the band he was touring with onto stage with him, and they blended their music together, often improvising off one another, in a beautiful mix of Rock, Folk, Country, Calypso, and so on. At one point, to prove that a song one of his peers had written was cribbing other tunes, he played it, and without changing the chord structure slipped straight into
Woolly Bully (jump to 5:15 in the video). They did a really neat arrangement of
Somewhere Over the Rainbow too, which I'm sure my stepdad would have loved.
Speaking of Minecraft, I'm going to be streaming another Minecraft Adventure with my buddy, at about 4pm EST tomorrow:
The Redmurk Mystery, kindly suggested by MetalSlimeHunt. This time, we hopefully won't be hoarding diamonds from one another, falling into all this lava and destroying plot gear, and/or arranging for one another's untimely demise out of gradually creeping paranoia and jealousy!
Also, I've been enjoying poking around on a SMP server themed after that new My Little Pony cartoon. The regulars on it seem like a good group of people, even if they're silly folks. One of my favorite parts is the word filter the server uses, which changes cursing into words like "oatmeal", and replaces everyday phrases and words with Ponified equivalents: Hand or Foot becomes "Hoof", Ladies and Gentlemen becomes "Fillies and Gentlecolts", etc. It's all quite entirely silly, and rather fun.
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