Monday, December 17, 2007

The Darkest Night of the Year


So, it being Christmas-time, and this being Cincinnati, this Saturday we made the first step in what we hope will be a long-standing tradition of yearly attendance at the homecoming (from tour) show put on by Over the Rhine at the Taft Theater. The show was breathtakingly lovely, as is the norm for OTR, though I hadn't seen them in several years.

It's been so long since we've been to a proper show. There are several potential opportunities coming up, though, so we'll have to get off our duffs and go to one or more. Yo La Tengo, the Bravery, Band of Horses, etc. We're lousy hipsters. Not that that's anything new.

Speaking of musics and such-lot, I've added a last.fm player to the blog here. I'm having a bit of fun with that, since it logs everything you listen to, making it possible to create playlists and "radio stations" of your songs online from whatever ones they also have in the Last.fm library. I have high hopes, though undoubtedly the player will pick out some random embarrassing song and just play that over and over. I'll regret forever looking up the theme song for "Hong Kong Phooey" or whatever. Actually though, I'm sure what you'll find is a big chunk of Christmas music, since I just loaded the player this week, and have been listening to a lot of Sufjan Stevens holiday songs. Hopefully you'll find it gets more diverse eventually.

2 comments:

Anna said...

Oh, I bet the OTR show was wonderful! That sounds like a really great holiday tradition. I've never seen them at Christmastime, and I think the only time I've seen them was Cornerstone, maybe?! Either way, time to see them again.

Steph said...

It was very very stellar, yes. Something of an event to dress up for. :) They also do a more personal and smaller show the next day at St. Elisabeth's with acoustic stuff, spoken word, and hanging about talking and eating. We didn't get to go to that, but next year we're planning on it. It's fun to make Christmas traditions!