Most Fridays Carley and I are tired from a week's worth of activities and frivolity and don't feel like doing much. Usually we'll grab dinner at Chaba Thai and watch a movie or Tivo-fare. Last Friday Carley and I dragged ourselves out of the house to see Livewire. It's something we've talked about doing for some time but never found a convenient night when all of our stars have aligned. The show was great, very much a Portland-flavored Prairie Home Companion with a great house band, interviews with authors and creative-types, sketches, and a mix of ages and social castes (hipsters, parents and kids, freakfolk hippies, general public radio admirers). They tape a couple shows at a time so you get to see two musicial guests and two interviews. It was a lot of fun.
One of the musical guests was The Thermals. I'm happy to be able to finally jump on this bandwagon. Before Friday I had only heard them a couple times and hadn't formed an opinion. They played two songs from "The Body The Blood The Machine" a conceptish album about a dystopian Christian theocracy. (I would say that it is set in the future but I think that dystopian only applies to future-state scenarios. Otherwise it would be some historical fictive amalgam.) They were great live--so good that I bought the album. It is pretty grim, but rocking.
The show and Thermals performance were uplifting in a brain-filled-up-to-capacity, should-be-creating-art way. One more push to get off the couch and try new things, or practice old things that have been put aside.
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Our new Thermals album gave me a chance to try out something else we learned about at the LiveWire show ...Geek Dancing. It really inspires you to shake it like a polar bear eats ya~ ;) Great workout~
C**
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