Weekend of awesome
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sabotabbyWant some pictures (mostly blurry) from the past few days? Of course not. But you're gonna see some anyway!
Friday: Went to see Primal Scream. I was vaguely aware of them in the 90s but only really started listening to them recently. They were pretty great and we ran into the singer at the pub afterwards. I have no pictures as we were really far back, and then we were too close to take pictures in a way that wasn't awkward.
Saturday: Gardened with my mum in the afternoon. Planted ALL THE THINGS. Here is my garden at the moment:
Currently in the ground: cherry and grape tomatoes, snap peas, snow peas, pickling cucumbers, kale, collard greens, and ghost peppers. It got scorchingly hot over the weekend and I have no idea what will live and what will die, but I'm pretty psyched. I also got a rose bush, which is already starting to bloom.
Admittedly, I am most psyched about the potential for ghost peppers. Gotta love planting instructions that come with a warning to "use extreme caution."
And here is my apple tree in full bloom!
Saturday night, well, you already know what happened. But here is a picture of most of the Kitten Bloc:
Anyway, the show was really phenomenal. It was exactly as balls-out insane as I would expect a Laibach show to be (I've been into them for ages but have never seen them live). As much performance art as music, with amazing visuals/propaganda videos. I am utterly in love with the new album.
And yes, apparently Milan Fras noticed and kinda did a double-take.
At the pub afterwards, L. showed everyone a trick to light up your beer with your cellphone:
Sunday: If Kitten Bloc was not enough to convince you that I am a massive nerd, a bunch of us drove down to Buffalo to go see the Welcome to Night Vale live show.
I don't want to say too much about it because apparently it is a thing to not say much about the live shows until the tours finish, but ZOMG SQUEE. Like the other live shows, much more on the hilarious side than the grinding existential horror that's been the podcast lately, and so worth a 2+ hour road trip to another country to see.
Here, have a very blurry cell photo of Cecil making a claw hand, for reasons.
The cast at the end, taking adorable to a whole new level.
Now I'm home and my body hates me but yay, weekend of awesome.
Friday: Went to see Primal Scream. I was vaguely aware of them in the 90s but only really started listening to them recently. They were pretty great and we ran into the singer at the pub afterwards. I have no pictures as we were really far back, and then we were too close to take pictures in a way that wasn't awkward.
Saturday: Gardened with my mum in the afternoon. Planted ALL THE THINGS. Here is my garden at the moment:
Currently in the ground: cherry and grape tomatoes, snap peas, snow peas, pickling cucumbers, kale, collard greens, and ghost peppers. It got scorchingly hot over the weekend and I have no idea what will live and what will die, but I'm pretty psyched. I also got a rose bush, which is already starting to bloom.
Admittedly, I am most psyched about the potential for ghost peppers. Gotta love planting instructions that come with a warning to "use extreme caution."
And here is my apple tree in full bloom!
Saturday night, well, you already know what happened. But here is a picture of most of the Kitten Bloc:
Anyway, the show was really phenomenal. It was exactly as balls-out insane as I would expect a Laibach show to be (I've been into them for ages but have never seen them live). As much performance art as music, with amazing visuals/propaganda videos. I am utterly in love with the new album.
And yes, apparently Milan Fras noticed and kinda did a double-take.
At the pub afterwards, L. showed everyone a trick to light up your beer with your cellphone:
Sunday: If Kitten Bloc was not enough to convince you that I am a massive nerd, a bunch of us drove down to Buffalo to go see the Welcome to Night Vale live show.
I don't want to say too much about it because apparently it is a thing to not say much about the live shows until the tours finish, but ZOMG SQUEE. Like the other live shows, much more on the hilarious side than the grinding existential horror that's been the podcast lately, and so worth a 2+ hour road trip to another country to see.
Here, have a very blurry cell photo of Cecil making a claw hand, for reasons.
The cast at the end, taking adorable to a whole new level.
Now I'm home and my body hates me but yay, weekend of awesome.
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Date: 2015-05-18 10:15 pm (UTC)Hope your body forgives you soon. :-)
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Date: 2015-05-18 10:20 pm (UTC)My body has forgiven worse. Like the weekend before this one. Today is Liver Detox Day, though.
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Date: 2015-05-19 02:13 am (UTC)I hope you end up posting about the WTNV show, and omg claw hand!Cecil.
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Date: 2015-05-19 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-19 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-19 11:46 am (UTC)It's not a secret that I have capital-I Issues about birthdays. This made it better.
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Date: 2015-05-19 04:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-05-19 12:14 pm (UTC)So, you are into adventure-gardening? Those are strangely clad plants indeed but what do you expect from such seed? Great stuff! Laibach made me laugh meaning your listening to them, I wasn't aware of that but to this I listen to Purcell's King Arthur and you know, at 13:33 they all scream! Weird horror show, that!
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Date: 2015-05-19 08:52 pm (UTC)Yes! I mean, I'm into the kind of gardening that's basically throwing things into the ground and letting them fight it out in a Darwinian struggle for survival. And also growing things that could kill me.
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Date: 2015-06-02 06:10 pm (UTC)Glad they played "The Whistleblowers" but I wanted to hear "Eurovision" too, which is my favourtie on the album.
When they played "B Mashina" featuring clips form "Iron Sky", one of them felt compelled to say, "No sieg-heiling, please."
Are there usually that many dummies in a Laibach audience?
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Date: 2015-06-02 08:50 pm (UTC)When they played "B Mashina" featuring clips form "Iron Sky", one of them felt compelled to say, "No sieg-heiling, please."
Are there usually that many dummies in a Laibach audience?
They had to do the same here. And yeah, I saw people seig-heiling, so there are > 0 dummies at Laibach shows.
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Date: 2015-06-02 11:05 pm (UTC)Like the video too!
It's not surprising that many people don't "get" Laibach, but it still seems odd that they would show up at a concert and do that.
This year my garden is garlic (overwintered and stalks now thicker than your thumb), spinach, kale, broccoli.
My collard greens did not take off for some reason.
And much lettuce on the sundeck, out of reach of the deer.
A couple of little pepper plants (jalapeno and chili - I planted habanero last year and it was a bit much).
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Date: 2015-06-02 11:08 pm (UTC)Peas survived.
All but one of the tomatoes is thriving.
About half the cukes made it.
The ghost peppers are still alive.
The kale and collard greens all died.