It's still chill to say "TiVoed" even though I'm using a Cox Cable DVR, right? Also I don't like the -ed ending but I'm sure that an apostrophe doesn't belong there. In the absence of a known standard....
On Veteran's Day the PSO played some Barber, Chopin and Richard Strauss. The concert was rather unremarkable; I am not a big fan of the latter two composers but I wanted to hear Barber's Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, or maybe I was just happy that the PSO was playing Barber.
Apropos of my last post I didn't know any of these pieces very well; I have recordings of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto and Strauss' Don Juan but I do not care for them that much.
The concert was still good - I could still appreciate the music - but it's nothing like hearing something you've heard over and over again (like, say, the Sibelius two weeks ago, or the upcoming Mozart Requiem.)
Or, say, Deceptacon. I like Le Tigre's latest album - much of the crowd seemed to as well - but what really made the crowd move were the tracks from their debut (they played the first four.)
I can't really say that this is because those songs are better (well, my four favorite Le Tigre songs would be Deceptacon, Let's Run, The The Empty and FYR [from Feminist Sweepstakes, also played last night] so in some cases I can) but they are certainly more familiar. I didn't go to the show because I liked This Island; I went to the show because I've been listening to the other albums for years.
Ok, I don't know where that little rant came from; I'm not complaining about the Le Tigre setlist - it more than met expectations - and I'm not complaining about the show - it, too, was solid.
Whatever, I'm sure I've got a good build up of both TiVoed commercial time and laundry that needs folding.
