2009
here’s your future: it’s gonna rain
maura @ 9:39 pm
I’ve been mentally blogging all day in discrete paragraphs rather than sustained narrative, so I’m going to kick it list-style here tonight:
1. After multiple recommendations I finally got my hands on some Thermals records. And they are awesome! Good for listening to while cleaning the stacks of papers off your desk, arranging the fall workshop schedule, and doing the dishes. Since it has rained here for a million billion jillion days straight, the line that’s the title of this post seems particularly apt.
2. Seriously, it has rained for a million billion jillion days straight. I mean, I used to dig in Ireland, I know from rain. I finally bought some big tall boots, but this is still getting pretty old. No rain today but the forecast for the weekend looks ominous, bah.
3. Last week we went to the curriculum share at Gus’s school to see all the fantastic work they’ve done all year. I am completely in awe of his teacher: she took those 27 kids on a ton of field trips all over the city (they studied a lot of architecture this year), including walks over the Brooklyn, Manhattan AND Williamsburg bridges (not all in the same day). Among the work Gus showed us was a book he made entitled “All Kinds of Awesome Poems By Gus.” Which makes me giggle every time I think of it.
4. I finally cleared a whole bunch of random old photos off my phone recently. Here are two:
This is from a crazy place with tons of inflatable stuff to climb on called Bounce U that we went to with friends earlier this year. Gus had a blast, predictably.
There’s a fun public art project all along a street near my work for which lots of people knitted cozies for the parking meters! It’s amazing, very Doctor Seussian. I took this photo right after the cozies were installed — they look much more droopy now that they’ve been rained on for a month. You can get a better look in the nice Flickr photostream and there’s also more info in the Times.
2 comments on “here’s your future: it’s gonna rain”
I definitely like The Body The Blood The Machine more, but that might just be familiarity. SubPop let me buy the mp3s right away last weekend, but I opted for the CD from Kill Rock Stars and it didn’t get here until a couple of days ago, so I haven’t listened to the new one much yet. I do like “Now We Can See,” (tho at first I didn’t), but not as much as “A Pillar of Salt” or “Returning to the Fold.”
Are you enjoying the new record? If so, maybe I’ll give it another chance.