Monday, November 25, 2002
So right about now we should mention that we have an EP that will be released in a month or so. Perhaps before the holiday season, perhaps not. It's called "A Desperate Drama About Faith In These The Last Days", and it'll be released on the nascent Chinga Tu Records. More details on that to come.
Saturday morning we woke up bright and early to take part in a river clean-up sponsored by the PSU chapter of OSPIRG. After cleaning up the river—which, all things considered, was not that dirty; other school groups apparently use the same site for their river clean-ups—we wandered over to Willamette Park for bagels and music. We played with Tamara J. Brown, and we decided to switch back and forth between songs. That was good, because the setlist we had planned was filled with uptempo silly songs, nothing serious or difficult. So the contrast was nice.
Anyway. It was a nice show, odd playing outside in the chill fall air, where the outside sucks all the volume away. Nothing was as loud as we thought it would be. (There is a possibility that we will do a stint of busking in a week, which will allow us to work more on outdoor dynamics.)
But it was a nice show, and some of the students got excited about some of the songs. One was particularly thrilled about "The Salt Bagel Critique", since he had been studying mollusks and the driving metaphor that the song plays with was one he'd been thinking about anyway. That is the sort of audience reaction one dreams of.
I already kind of regret making that Sting comment in the last entry. But, anyway, here's what we played by the river:
1. (Let's Not) Get It On
2. The Angel's Revenge
3. The Salt Bagel Critique
4. John Henry
5. Faith [George Michael]
6. Lesbian On Skis
