I’ve already written up the Decibel Magazine Tour at Showbox, with its dream team of a lineup: Carcass, Black Dahlia Murder, Gorguts, Noisem, and Bastard Feast. It was a lot of fun. So I’m going to talk about it some more now.
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Have a Good Time
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Decibel Magazine Tour 2014: Showbox Market Seattle
The lineup for this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour was something like fantasy football for metalheads: Carcass, Black Dahlia Murder, Gorguts, and Noisem, passing through Seattle at my favorite venue, The Showbox at the Market, on a Saturday night. I expected a concert that people would talk about for years afterwards. Read More
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Blue Lagoon
Joseph Boyden says in Through Black Spruce
Fucking stories. Twisted things that come out no matter how we want them.
Regular readers of this blog know that if a picture is worth a thousand words, I’ll take a thousand words. With less than two weeks left until Iceland Writers Retreat, I wanted to tell some stories about getting ready for that trip. But this week I am sick, and all my drafts keep getting twisted. So until the NyQuil wears off, I will leave you with a picture of the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. Right now, with my nose blocked and my head foggy, I can’t imagine anything better than soaking in its geothermally heated mineral waters.
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Book Report: Rin Tin Tin
In preparation for Iceland Writers Retreat, I am reading books by each of the featured authors. I placed holds on everything I could find at the library. Most of the books came all at once, but I’m still waiting for a few. While I’m waiting, Susan Orlean’s latest book, Rin Tin Tin, was next in the pile.
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State of Darkness at Pacific NW Ballet
In my review of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2014 Director’s Choice program on Monday I wrote:
I could say so much more about “State of Darkness” … this piece set off bottle rockets in my brain and it will probably take a while to make sense from all the patterns.
My mind has been churning on this dance since I saw it last week, and although I have yet to make sense of all the patterns, I need to say so much more about it.