September 2024
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September 29th, 2024. The Music City Open Mic and a Hurricane.
This tomato plant has taken root in the otherwise quite frighteningly toxic Morsbergers parking lot. Joy and Jeni have tied it up and we are all rooting for it. Pun intended. It makes me happy. No way in Hell am I eating one of those tomatoes though. If none of the infamous Baltimore rats have…
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September 27th, 2024. everything hurts.
Wednesday night was awesome. I just don’t even really grasp how these shows are as much fun as they are. Yeah, it’s true that a lot of the adoration of us tends to have an alcoholic tinge to it. I’d like to think that they’d like us at the Dark Horse in Annapolis even sans…
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September 24th, 2024. The SPARK w Boy Meets Pearl.
Christian Crowley of Boy Meets Pearl caught me kicking off the night with Rebecca Berlin and Juels Bland (previewing our performance for the Takoma Street Festival on October 6th). It was a chaotic start to the night, with everyone running late due to the rain and a complicated setup. SO complicated that I forgot to…
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September 23rd, 2024. Workin’.
Chris Compton at the Takoma SPARK Tuesday, September 17th. My eyes itch and my arm hurts. I can’t bend here or there. I’m sore and stiff and today’s been all day in an office chair watching emails and texts and messages roll in. I slowly update this, delete that, respond to that. Treading water on…
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September 22nd, 2024. The Music City Open Mic.
We had an awesome show at Little Market Cafe in Ellicott City before I ran over to Morsbergers today. Good crowd. Sweet dogs. A corgi with a questionably long tongue. Though 7 Locks was a lot of fun last night, it’s good to be someplace where making the sound perfect is EASY, but I’m SO…
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September 17th, 2024. The SPARK w Chris Compton.
Sea Griffin playing music knowing every day is a gift! A sparse night made for a relaxed, joyous night, but I was disappointed I couldn’t put Chris in front of more hungry earballs. We do this every Tuesday. Signup before 7. I start at 7. 7112 Willow Avenue in Takoma Park, MD. robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for more…
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September 13th, 2024. Ah. So it’s COVID. Finally.
Wednesday night Kristen and I had been craving the Pizza Pizza of childhood and we went a bit overboard ordering from Little Caesers. This has served as well as we hunker down in isolation for the next couple of days. Well, I’m finally a fully-participating member of the Apocalypse, with Pestilence FINALLY having caught up…
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September 10th, 2024. The SPARK w Quiet the Mountain.
Quiet the Mountain soundchecking. A slow forming list. We did eventually fill those last couple of slots, but t’was a relatively quiet night! To use Sea Griffin’s (Boy Meets Pearl) verbiage : last night was a gift. It’s the first notes that get you sometimes. Years ago, when the Takoma Park Folk Festival stuttered and…
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September 9th, 2024. Darth Vader. Thulsa Doom. Aging Rockstar.
We’re watching Conan The Barbarian to commemorate the passing of James Earl Jones and it was the right choice. It’s epic and it’s heartfelt and honestly James Earl Jones has some truly beautiful lines. Perhaps nothing with the cultural significance of “No, I am your father” – but “Now they will know why they are…
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September 8th, 2024. A Good Week + Takoma Park Folk Festival.
Started off this week with a truly marvelous open mic at Morsbergers. One of my favourite not-so-new-to-me artists Mike G (who apparently had come out to Teavolve years ago, but I didn’t remember from back then) rocking out with a new-to-performing drummer, Charlie. They fit one another really well giving Mike’s kinda Soul Coughing vibe…