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Jun. 7th, 2010 03:14 pmWe had Summer on Saturday. Now it's gone, apparently. Anyway. I took advantage of the nice weather to take a walk of more than an hour, all the way to the top of the hill to the Food Market at Lea Hill (a few blocks North of Green River College).
That felt good. It was probably ruined a bit by the fact that I didn't exercise at all on Sunday, and also by the fact that I wasn't exactly on my diet Saturday evening. I got together with my ex-roommate Tom and we hit Half Price Books and then ate at Famous Dave's barbeque. I had the barbequeue chicken nachos, which were quite good. And then, amazingly enough, we did not see a movie or even watch anime at his house. Instead we just talked and watched some youtube music videos.
Tom has signed up for City of Heroes again. I didn't encourage him. In fact, I wasn't sure his computer would run it or that he'd enjoy playing, but he wanted something to do besides watch videos every night, and he's apparently enjoying the game again.
We talked about Steampunk music and this led me to designing a Steampunk playlist Sunday afternoon. I includes several bands -- Analogik, Vagabond Opera, Beats Antique, Circus Contraption -- from "Waltzes, Glitches and Brass: The New Sounds of Vaudeville" (a compiliation cd that Sky had played for me recently). I included several well-known Steampunk bands such as Abney Park, Doctor Steel, Vernian Process, Sunday Driver, Rasputina, Unextraordinary Gentlemen. And I included stuff that seemed to fit to me, including Hazmat Modine, Tom Waits, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Primus (songs from Brown Album) Black string bands The Ebony Hillbillies and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and period music from pre 1950 including versions of Hello My Baby, Sweet Adeline, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Daisy Bell, My Bonny, Shenandoah, some Josephine Baker, and some children's songs like Winter's Come and Gone, Lavender's Blue, and Old King Cole.
All in all it's a nice playlist but typical of playlists I make it includes too many songs and some stuff that doesn't really fit Steampunk except in my own mind. I'd like to boil it down to a mix cd if I can, but it might be painful to cut out that many songs. ^_^
That felt good. It was probably ruined a bit by the fact that I didn't exercise at all on Sunday, and also by the fact that I wasn't exactly on my diet Saturday evening. I got together with my ex-roommate Tom and we hit Half Price Books and then ate at Famous Dave's barbeque. I had the barbequeue chicken nachos, which were quite good. And then, amazingly enough, we did not see a movie or even watch anime at his house. Instead we just talked and watched some youtube music videos.
Tom has signed up for City of Heroes again. I didn't encourage him. In fact, I wasn't sure his computer would run it or that he'd enjoy playing, but he wanted something to do besides watch videos every night, and he's apparently enjoying the game again.
We talked about Steampunk music and this led me to designing a Steampunk playlist Sunday afternoon. I includes several bands -- Analogik, Vagabond Opera, Beats Antique, Circus Contraption -- from "Waltzes, Glitches and Brass: The New Sounds of Vaudeville" (a compiliation cd that Sky had played for me recently). I included several well-known Steampunk bands such as Abney Park, Doctor Steel, Vernian Process, Sunday Driver, Rasputina, Unextraordinary Gentlemen. And I included stuff that seemed to fit to me, including Hazmat Modine, Tom Waits, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Primus (songs from Brown Album) Black string bands The Ebony Hillbillies and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and period music from pre 1950 including versions of Hello My Baby, Sweet Adeline, Oh You Beautiful Doll, Daisy Bell, My Bonny, Shenandoah, some Josephine Baker, and some children's songs like Winter's Come and Gone, Lavender's Blue, and Old King Cole.
All in all it's a nice playlist but typical of playlists I make it includes too many songs and some stuff that doesn't really fit Steampunk except in my own mind. I'd like to boil it down to a mix cd if I can, but it might be painful to cut out that many songs. ^_^
