I was really excited about seeing the Roger Ballen photography show at the Eastman, a little too excited. We got there a week early. The opening is next Friday! So we headed over Abilene and heard a few songs by a young band with a woman who sang like Janis. We ordered a Genny Bock beer and had them put in a glass. On to the Bop Shop where we caught a trio with guitar, bass and Gunther Schuller’s son on drums. I spent most of my time in the store and bought a cd in a jewel case and everything. I heard a song from this cd on Pandora so I guess they have a viable business model. It’s seductively entitled “Live at the Velvet Lounge” with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake. Why aren’t these guys ever at the Rochester Jazz Fest? Or Joe McPhee? Or Ornette before he dies.
Brian Peterson suggested we follow him over to Boulder Coffee to see a band whose description had intrigued him. They were a Buffalo band called The Bear Exchange and they were impossibly young and primitive. They played an intriquing combination of low tech (toy accordion, melodica, trumpet, Fender Rhodes) and high tech (two Apple laptops). Very intriguing and dreamy. The lead singer wore big glasses and the keyboard player wore a tweed jacket. I couldn’t help but think how all these essential fashion elements, hoods, tight pants and vintage clothing, are going around again and they still look good.
We finished the night at Bill and Geri’s watching Women’s Curling. The Danish team was exotic as hell and the Canadians they were playing against held their own. We were transfixed on the high def makeup, hair styles and grunts of “hard, hard”. We were all laughing at the sexually charged nature of this arcane game (sport?) and we weren’t the only ones who noticed. Charles Isherwood, writing in this morning’s paper, “But the dream that excites me most is this inspiration, which came upon me as I sat transfixed by boredom and confusion for a couple of hours last week, watching the women’s curling competition. Fanfare please: drag queen curling.”
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Funny, cuz I got sucked into womens curling this weekend too. I know nothing about the rules or scoring, just watched it like abstract dance. Really great.
No interest in seeing the mens side of the sport, I caught 10 sec & it was missing everything that the girls made intriguing.
It seemed only the girl shooters were really made up. That seemed to be the case for the Danish, Canadian, British & American ladies. The shooter for Britain looked like the girl singer from Berlin in the 80’s.
i’ve always been a big curling fan, and yes the danish women were smoking hot, two pairs of sisters make up the team, and canada had that sarah palin/shania twain 42 year old brunette with the great bod. unfortunately i dont have cable anymore so i have to go elsewheres for the curling action. i get nbc proper on broadcast tv and its full of ice skating and snowboarding. curling is kinda like rugby in its traditions, good sportmanship(the winner buys the drinks) and the players decide who scores what points are awarded. be careful it’s kinda addictive and slow, about 3 hours for a game.
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dem hot womens is good wit da brooms.
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