2 posts tagged “portland”
On Friday, December 7, we will be performing at the Plan B bar in Portland to support RAINN and pay tribute to the glorious Tori Amos. We are doing a bluegrass cover of "Cornflake Girl," so come if only to see how that can possibly work. (It just may not; who knows?) It' s only $5 -- wotta bargain!
Other evening highlights: Tori covers! Tori costumes! Tori drag queens! Prizes for Tori Q & A! If you ever wanted to die and go to Tori heaven this is probably the closest you'll ever get, so come one, come all.
Other evening highlights: Tori covers! Tori costumes! Tori drag queens! Prizes for Tori Q & A! If you ever wanted to die and go to Tori heaven this is probably the closest you'll ever get, so come one, come all.
It snowed today in Portland. It wasn't the 14 inches of snow that my parents got in December, or even the 36 that western KS got at the end of last month, but it was snow. I (Hiram) went to work for about an hour and then left when the bus lines started closing down. While waiting for a bus to show up, I watched another one fish tail into a tree, but only one person got off the bus at that point. About two miles from the house, the bus I was on was stuck in the road. As the bus driver was pulling the little ads out their place holders in the bus, I decided to hoof it. The two miles in the snow was a little much, but I survived.
Seeing everything covered in snow always reminds me of the song "All Blues" off of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis (refresh your memory here). Yes, I do know it's everyone's first jazz album, and it was one of the first that I bought as a teen wondering what jazz was all about, but that doesn't matter. It's the way that the piano actually comes in sounding like the ghost of a sleigh while the horns slide up and down through the snow. It's the way that the trumpet moves in like a mother calling the kids in for dinner, reminding them that they have to brush off the snow outside. It may not be a great dinner, but it's one that tastes great after you've been playing in the snow (like, say, mac and cheese with a hamburger on the side--yeah, I grew up in the midwest). I don't want to think of the picture of Miles after the cop beat him or how badly he treated women, I just want to listen to the song and stare at the snow.
SIDENOTE: I once saw Stanley Clarke do the song while in New Mexico. That night I drunkenly fell off a barstool (yeah, it was a Stanley Clarke show, what else was I supposed to do). Anyway, because of that and a few other things, I made it into Out Here in the Out There... (by my friend Phil Heldrich) as the character "Tecate Man". So see, drinking can lead to interesting things.
Seeing everything covered in snow always reminds me of the song "All Blues" off of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis (refresh your memory here). Yes, I do know it's everyone's first jazz album, and it was one of the first that I bought as a teen wondering what jazz was all about, but that doesn't matter. It's the way that the piano actually comes in sounding like the ghost of a sleigh while the horns slide up and down through the snow. It's the way that the trumpet moves in like a mother calling the kids in for dinner, reminding them that they have to brush off the snow outside. It may not be a great dinner, but it's one that tastes great after you've been playing in the snow (like, say, mac and cheese with a hamburger on the side--yeah, I grew up in the midwest). I don't want to think of the picture of Miles after the cop beat him or how badly he treated women, I just want to listen to the song and stare at the snow.
SIDENOTE: I once saw Stanley Clarke do the song while in New Mexico. That night I drunkenly fell off a barstool (yeah, it was a Stanley Clarke show, what else was I supposed to do). Anyway, because of that and a few other things, I made it into Out Here in the Out There... (by my friend Phil Heldrich) as the character "Tecate Man". So see, drinking can lead to interesting things.
