Chasing
Pavements – Adele
Heard
11/3/2015 around 12:10, at Café Rio (Germantown)
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Monday, November 2, 2015
Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Birchmere, 10/29/2015
Canadian
husband-and-wife fiddlers extraordinaire MacMaster and Leahy put on quite a
show for a large, appreciative crowd – the CD-signing line after the show
stretched from the entrance to the music hall all the way back to the opposite
end of the pre-show waiting area. Including intermission, the show ran for over
two hours. All instrumental with one exception, the show nevertheless packed
enough variety to keep things interesting, with tunes bringing to mind chamber
music and Jethro Tull interspersed among the more traditional Celtic tunes. The
four-piece band (drums, bass, piano, and a jack-of-all-trades who alternated
among guitar, flute, and bagpipes) also contributed greatly to the experience.
In keeping with the tour theme “Visions From Cape Breton & Beyond”, there
were several video interludes that traced the family and backgrounds of the two
lead performers.
My only
disappointment was non-musical; the Birchmere has apparently discontinued my
favorite Margarita Chicken Salad, although it was still listed on their online
menu. (It’s since been deleted.) Wound up having the Greek Salad instead.
Almost
forgot to mention that Natalie and Donnell have six kids, the oldest of whom is
just 9 years old. Four of them made appearances late in the first set and just
after intermission, fiddling and step-dancing up a storm on a couple numbers,
and taking a verse and joining in the chorus of the show’s lone vocal number
(“Getting Dark Again”). There was also a nice duet featuring dad on fiddle and
the oldest daughter on piano.
Wonder if
have a really cool bus for touring, like The Partridge Family?
Shuffle #75 (November 2, 2015)
Willow Weep
For Me – Chad & Jeremy
Ain’t That
Peculiar – Marvin Gaye
Silhouettes –
Herman’s Hermits
Peaceful
Easy Feeling – The Eagles
Walls Come
Tumbling Down – The Style Council
Life Begins
At The Hop – XTC
Ya Ya (Next
To Me) – Steve Forbert
That Girl Could
Sing – Jackson Browne
Come As You
Are – Nirvana
California
Nights – Lesley Gore
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Shuffle #74 (November 1, 2015)
Mama Wants
To Barrelhouse All Night Long – Bruce Cockburn
Breakout –
Swing Out Sister
Theme From
Shaft – Isaac Hayes
Walking In
The Rain – The Ronettes
16 Candles –
The Crests
Only So Much
Oil In The Ground – Tower Of Power
Burning Down
The House – Talking Heads
Gonna Move –
Paul Pena
The Land Of
Milk And Honey – The Vogues
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Serendipity #46
Better Be
Home Soon – Crowded House
Heard
10/20/2015 around 6:00, at Jerry’s Subs (Fallsgrove)
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Shuffle #73 (October 4, 2015)
Gone Daddy
Gone – Violent Femmes
We’ll Sing In
The Sunshine – Gale Garnett
Turn Down
Day – The Cyrkle
Pretty Good –
John Prine
Cross My
Heart – Billy Stewart
Turning To
You – Charlie
Same Love –
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
The Troubles
– U2
Domino – Van
Morrison
Don’t Wait
Too Long – Madeleine Peyroux
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Shuffle #72 (October 3, 2015)
Because –
The Dave Clark Five
Paper Thin –
John Hiatt
Piano Man –
Billy Joel
Heartbreaker
– The Crystals
Something
About You – The Four Tops
Sunday Girl –
She & Him
Johnny B.
Goode – Chuck Berry
Bring Me
Some Water – Melissa Etheridge
Plastic
Flowers – Don McMinn
What About
Me – Lake Street Dive
Havana
Daydreamin’ – Jimmy Buffett
Spring Fever
-- Orleans
Monday, September 28, 2015
September 27, 2015 – Phillies 12, Nationals 5 – Nationals Park
Attendance:
28,661
Game Time:
3:02
Weather: 69
degrees, cloudy
Wind: 6 mph
Umpires:
Home Plate - Bill Welke, First Base - John Hirschbeck, Second Base - John
Tumpane, Third Base - James Hoye
Seventh-inning
stretch song: Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars
Quite a Fan
Appreciation Day, in the wake of the Nationals fragging their manager
Aaron Harang
actually pitched well for the Phils, going 6 innings and only allowing
back-to-back dingers in the second by Desmond and den Dekker … Gio blanked Philadelphia
through 5, before exiting with the dreaded “Gonzalez pitched to 5 batters in
the 6th” (3 singles followed by 2 bases-loaded walks) … Nats retook
the lead with 2 in the bottom of the seventh, but it quickly vanished half an
inning later, when Casey (“I think I underachieved a little bit”) Janssen
served up a two-run tater to Jeff Francoeur … Papelbon recorded the final out
of the eighth, which meant he was in the dugout for the fateful tussle with
Harper … Pap was sent back back out for the ninth and gave up a two-run shot by
noted slugger Andres Blanco (10 HRs in 800+ major-league at-bats), as the Phils
put up an 8-spot … in addition to the promotional item of the day (red
Nationals gloves), I snagged one of the caps that they were tossing into the
Red Porch area in CF after the game ended
Let the inmates run the asylum
Perhaps the
only positive aspect to yesterday’s little Papelbon-Harper scuffle in the
Washington Nationals’ dugout is that it diverted attention from the club’s
deeper problems. These are best demonstrated by a column in yesterday’s Washington Post, in which several Nats players anonymously stab their manager
in the back with a week still left to go in the season.
Regardless
of the job Matt Williams has done as manager -- and it's been far from perfect
-- what does this say about the character of the team and its “veteran leaders”?
If you’re unhappy about your boss, there are plenty of professional ways of
dealing with the situation. This is clearly not one of them, and is the sort of
thing that damages the organization both with the fans and in the eyes of
quality players or other staff that the team might like to add.
Matt should
take the high road and resign right after the season, apologizing for the
team's failures and his contributions to them, and thanking Rizzo and Harper
for their support. He should be thankful to be out of such a toxic environment.
Rizzo
(assuming he still has a job after his inspired addition of Papelbon at the
trade deadline) should then convene a meeting of the gutless wonders and let
them pick their own manager for next season. That way, if they tank again the
way they did for both Davey and Matt, they will have no one to blame but
themselves.
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