SOUNDTRACK: ESME PATTERSON-Tiny Desk Concert #598 (February 10, 2017).
I saw Esmé Patterson at the XPNFest last year. Her live show was dynamic and fun and she was really charming. I got to meet her briefly after the show and she was super friendly as well.
This Tiny Desk Concert (in which she has totally shaved off her big wavy hair), is a somewhat quieter, but overall accurate representation of her live show.
I love that she’s playing a big echoing guitar while the rest of the band Alex Koshak (drums); Jeremy Averitt (bass) and Jake Miller (lead guitar) support her perfectly–the lead guitar lines especially.
I have listened to her record a few times and I never considered that she sounds a bit (vocally) like Edie Brickell. Well on “No River,” the comparison is apt. Especially given the lyrics. But the cute squeak in the vocals is quite endearing.
“Wantin’ Ain’t Gettin” is a cool song with a surprising twist on the theme of the lyrics:
When I ask if you love me / And you say that you might
…
I’ve got your love wrapped around me / So I put up a fight
Cause I wanna believe you
…
But I’ve heard that
Wantin ain’t gettin
No, wantin ain’t getting.
I like some of the staggered moments in the song too. And she’s adorably smiley, throughout, even after singing a fairly dark song like that.
“Yours And Mine” has some great flanging echo on her guitar. It’s a slow sweet song with nice guitar harmonics throughout.
[READ: January 20, 2017] LastMan 5
This book was originally written in French (and called Lastman there as well). These editions were translated by Alexis Siegel.
Book five opens by returning to the Village of Kings (the home of Adrain and Marianne–where the first two books were set). Everyone is despondent at the loss of the Velbas. Master Jansen–spurned by Marianne has been inconsolable and all of his students have left him. Although Elorna has stayed faithful and is ever training (although she thinks that Marianne is a ditz for falling for Richard).
A meeting with the leaders also shows that Richard’s arrival has meant nothing but trouble for them. They believe that the iguana queen resides in the canyon at the edge of their village (the one that Richard and Marianne crossed). They believe that a medieval king closed the opening when he sacrificed himself by jumping in. And he insists that they reinstate the Royal Guardians at once. (more…)
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My wife and I have seen just about everyone that we really want to (I have a list of bands that i still want to seem but it gets shorter all the time). But one person on her bucket list was Paul Simon.
I Just Read About That... 