Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1212
The Nimbus crew rents a bus and gets some BBQ and sees the Flaming Lips
Oh hey a palindromic GMHHAY edition number, that is exciting. Hey hey. Sorry about yesterday. Summit’s a lot of work, you know? All day brilliant ideation and presentations and whatnot, then you gotta go to dinner, then maybe a bar for a bit, then you gotta pass our and then wake up early and have breakfast with your daughter, then do it all again. It is difficult!
BUT. I am very excited about it. We had an amazing summit last October and we invented a new thing that has proven transformational to our company since then, and I was very nervous this summit would not be as productive, but so far, it has been incredibly productive and great. Will anything be as amazing as our idea last time, TBD, but some of them certainly have the potential to be.
Last night we got an old Chapel Hill Municipal Transit bus that has been converted into a party bus and we took the bus from the hotel first to my house, gave the company a tour of the house and chore house and whatnot, picked up Emma. Then we all went to Allen & Sons, a lovely roadside BBQ joint out in Pittsboro. Then from there we continued on in our party bus to the Koka Booth Amphitheater and saw the Flaming Lips perform Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots as well as a set of hits. Newer hits. Like all post-Yoshimi except for their first breakout hit “She Don’t Use Jelly.” We did not get anything from Telepathic Surgery or Priest-Driven Ambulance or whatnot. I think this is probably fine. Those songs are amazing and the band was so absolutely over the top back then, but there is an evil to the younger songs that I think, zeitgeistly at least, is less sympatico. The optimism of later period Lips just kinda works in this day and age.
But I swear, if you had told me, in 1993 or whatever, that of all the bands I liked, the one who was going to last forever, become beloved and huge, I mean, shit, the two that did — Flaming Lips and Ween, I guess — well, I would not have seen that coming.
So, yeah, one more day of this summit, lot of good stuff on our plate for today, just finished making the slides. And then tomorrow morning, I drive to Cary and, if all goes well, I get this infernal boot off that I have been wearing for three weeks. Have not been super enjoying it. I mean, it’s not that bad, but then I go to bed or shower or whatever and take it off for a moment and I feel so free! It will be nice.
Assuming the sprain is healed and he lets me keep it off.
Also I gotta not forget to bring a shoe to the doctor, lol.
And maybe if you’re a good boy you can go to the Rockler Woodworking Store after.
Maybe I will get to do bedtime tonight and we can have a daddy school.
In other news, there is a new Primal Scream record coming out.
It other news, Alan Sparhawk of Low has a solo record coming out. The first song is great, but maybe a little bit too electronic for my tastes. Gotta be hard to be missing your wife AND your amazing, minimalist percussionists.
(Deep music nerd cut there, thinking of Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream and his start as the drummer for the Jesus and Mary Chain, the drummer perhaps most similar to Mimi’s drumming style.)
In other news, there is a new Japandroids album coming out, speaking of rock and roll duos, like Low.
OK, well, that’s all I got without getting into some long topics. I should really write you guys about politics but who are we kidding? I dread it, you dread it, I am not up for it this week. Maybe next week, where we have some distance from… [gestures broadly] assuming nothing else batshit happens ahhh hahahahahahahahaha.
Oh, and culinary tip: Go ahed and buy the uncut baby corn. It really is worth the time and effort to cut your baby corn to your preferred length. If you have the means, I strongly recommend it. It is so choice.
Here’s a post rock playlist for you. All new stuff. New Squrl is so great. New Mono nothing to sneeze at. Been really into this Den Der Hale band for a while now.
All right be careful out there. Oh wait, I should make another Ferris reference:
You’re still here? It’s over. Go home. Go.