Mich's New Music Discoveries, episode whatever

First, here is a picture of my cats. I can't get them to sit still long enough to get a photo of all of them together, so I made one.

In other news, 2 weeks ago, my friend C and I drove 9 hours to Ohio on Sunday to see a super duper totally fecking amazing band Monday (and then had to get up at the crack of dawn Tuesday so I could make it back home in time for band practice).

We had THE BEST time. There weren't a lot of people in the brewery where 20 Watt Tombstone was playing, so we actually got to hang out with the band.

The singer/guitarist came to sit at the bar with us during their "smoke break" and bought me and C a glass of bourbon. We were supposed to have breakfast with them, though I doubted that would actually happen since we had to get on the road by 9.00 AM and they were probably up drinking all night.

Tom never answered his phone Tuesday morning, so I presumed they had in fact partied all night. I got a text a few hours later. Apparently they HAD gotten up in time, but Tom never realized his phone was dead.

Very sad altogether, but just seeing them play and hanging out with them Monday night was totally worth the driving.


C and I dressed up in ridiculous dresses for Halloween at Big Sis#'2's house.

One of the parents of the many trick-or-treaters we saw just bought and re-opened Baird's Tavern in Warwick. It was originally opened in 1766, and the owner offered us a possible job dressing up in 18th century fashion and hanging out in the pub on weekends. Getting paid to play dress up would make me deliriously happy.


And now on to the music.

Black Spirit Crown



Naturally, because I adore their music so much, they have thus far only released 4 songs.


Holy Grove



Yet another band with so few songs they can barely call their album an album and not an EP. But I love them.


Truckfighters



These guys are from Sweden. Proof that I need to move to Scandinavia immediately because their music scene is apparently off the charts awesome.


We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.
LET ME PREFACE THIS ONE by stating that I very much dislike Bruce Springsteen. However



This album was playing in one of the antique shops we visited while in Lake George a couple months ago. I made the guy at the register stop the CD player and tell me what was playing, because I loved it. At first I thought there MUST be a mistake, because no way I liked a song by Bruce Springsteen. But no, it was definitely Bruce.

The guy at the register seemed nervous when I said I wanted to buy the CD, as he is not the owner of the shop and wasn't sure the album was on sale. I convinced him it was fine and got the CD for $5.00.


Also this cover band from Spain because holy crap.




Have a good weekend, kiddos.

It's like the N word and the C word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for Jews.

As y'all know, I have something of a spending problem when it comes to period costumes.

HOWEVER, this year, four of the giant dresses will be getting a night out on Halloween, as myself, 2 friends, and Lil Bro#2* have decided to wear them to Big Sis#2's house to give candy to the millions** of trick-or-treaters she gets.

I really enjoyed dressing up as Elsa a couple years ago, so this year I decided to mix it up and dress up as Baroque Elsa, hence justifying*** my purchasing a new giant dress.

The new dress arrived last week, and I raced home after work to try it on.

This is the first one-piece period costume I have ever purchased. You'd think that would make it easier to put on. Think again, my friends.

I ran into serious trouble when I finally managed to get both arms into the sleeves.

At which point I realized I was stuck.

Why was I stuck, you may ask? Wellllllllll it's because of a problem I frequently have with clothing.

BUT I DID NOT GIVE UP

The dress is bigger than my apartment, so it's impossible to get a decent photo of it. This is the best I could get:

In other news....

I've been doing some decorating and now I'm going to show off.

I think I'm most proud of the mini curio cabinet.

That's on the wall right outside the bedroom.

And in that photo you can see my fantastic new table.

My owl collection has some new additions.

I've decorated the windows for autumn.

And here's a picture of my fridge just because.

*yes, really

**this may be an exaggeration

***not at all

****it was taking way too long to draw that