"It's the crowded room that breaks me / everybody looks so luminous, and strangely young"

[larryhammer]

For those of you who are interested in checking out the Dreamwidth thing, it's now in open beta and I have four invite codes. If you want one, post a couplet in a comment by noon MST (UTC−7) on Tuesday 5 May -- it doesn't have to scan, but it should at least attempt to rhyme. Nor does it even have to be good, as if more than four want one I'll pick the recipients at random. But it does have to be a couplet, so I can tell who's asking and who isn't.

Also, following up for oyceter:

Yesterday (after converting the cooler) was a musical day, and not just because this weekend is the Folk Festival. We caught our two favorite local musicians, plus a blues band a former coworker is in (though he couldn't make it that day) with an amazing harmonica player -- as in, he takes the wailing lead guitar part -- and a Brazilian drum ensemble that had half the audience dancing in the aisles.

But we didn't stay for the headline act, because we had tickets for Vienna Teng, touring for her fourth album. Most of the show was new songs, but there were a handful of older favorites, including "Gravity," "Harbor," and "Blue Caravan" (which is a song all fantasy writers should listen to -- and can as it's streaming on her website). No "My Medea," alas. I'm sold on the new album, given "Antebellum," "Stray Italian Greyhound," and especially "Grandmother Song," which was her closing song. Don't know whether I like it as much as Warm Strangers yet, but it's got good stuff on it and seems to hold together better than Dreaming Through the Noise.

As for the open act, he was a singer/songwriter/cellist from Kentucky who apparently is deeply steeped in the surrealist tradition of Appalachian folk music. Um. Yeah.

---L.

Comments

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth comes around to lure LiveJournalers away,
I know not at this moment, whether I’ll go, or stay.

*****************
The above was intended to be a couplet, however clumsily expressed. Although, in truth, I fully intend to stay on LJ, I like the idea of keeping my options open, as well as keeping my options free.

As for the festival and the music . . . *sigh* Wish I'd been a little less clueless. I'm glad you and Janni had such a wonderful time.

[larryhammer]

Counts as a couplet -- it rhymes.

---L.

[paulakate.livejournal.com]

Afterward, when talk had dissipated like smoke signals in a smoggy wind,
they looked about and wondered, in what way had their once-thriving software sinned?

--

No plans to migrate, but I'd like to stake out my territory.

pk

[larryhammer]

That's more or less what I'm doing. That, and reading journals of the jumpers.

---L.

[larryhammer]

I sent this to the addy listed in your profile -- if that's the wrong place, let me know where else.

---L.

[oyceter]

I really love those three from the new album as well, although I'm kind of sad that the military drums on the recorded version of "Antebellum" are less distinct. I also found I really liked "Kansas" as well.

[larryhammer]

My reaction it "Kansas" is to wonder what Kansas thinks of her.

---L.

[jorrie-spencer.livejournal.com]

Dreamwidth is oft talked about, enough I'd like to see
Although given my posting once a year, makes little sense for me

…to be curious.
But I do read lj still. That was a very bad attempt at a couplet, in case that's not obvious.

[larryhammer]

Good enough rhyme to count as a couplet -- you're in the pot.

---L.

[larryhammer]

What address should I send the invite to? (You can email the address in my profile if you'd prefer to ask in private.)

---L.