SOUNDTRACK: RHEOSTATICS-Barrymore’s Ottawa, ON (January 17, 1997).
After two recordings in Barrymore’s in 1996, Rhesostatics Live has another concert from Barrymore‘s to open 1997. And this one is fantastic. The sound is perfect, the band sounds great and they play a wonderful selection of songs.
They open with a long version of “Record Body Count,” and a rousing “Dope Fiends and Booze Hounds.” They are also having a lot of fun on stage with the lengthy introduction to “Sweet, Rich, Beautiful and Mine” and the fun teasing that opens “Saskatchewan.”
But the most fun comes in “Fan Letter to Michael Jackson” which sees the band joking around and sounding almost giddy. It’s not the best rendition of the song for novices to the band, but for long time fans, this must have been fun to see. It’s also amazing that the band has played yet another 2 hours plus show.
[READ: January 8, 2014] Sweet Tomb
I don’t usually mention the book publisher when I post about books, but I’m quite taken with Madras Press. From their website:
Madras Press publishes limited-edition short stories and novella-length booklets and distributes the proceeds to a growing list of non-profit organizations chosen by our authors. The format of our books provides readers with the opportunity to experience stories on their own, with no advertisements or miscellaneous stuff surrounding them.
The format is a 5″ x 5″ square books that easily fit into a pocket. At present there are four series with four books in each series.
Proceeds from Dalton’s book go to the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants.
I have a lot of strange synchronicites with the books I read. As it turns out, yesterday’s comic book was about a witch and this collection of related short stories is also about a witch. It’s especially strange because I didn’t know that either book would have a witch character at all (even Zombillenium–it seems like it would be about zombies not witches). So it’s funny to read two different stories and to see two entirely different attitudes about witches. In Zombiellenium, she says that being a witch is not hereditary and yet in Sweet Tomb, she says it is (and then wonders why anyone would pass that on to her children).
So yes, these are linked short stories (I assume, and not a novel with chapter titles). They are all about Candy, a witch, and her exploits. Typically, I summarize each short story, but it’s more interesting to talk about this narrative as a whole. (more…)
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