FatherAlabaster

Ha, knave - to in the same breath claim that thou art an atom unto thyself, and yet that thou art most assuredly a mere amalgam of water and of dust! Thy words do make a chimæra of thy thoughts. Thou may'st yet rival most noble Athena in many things, but never that thou did'st spring full-formed from any fearsome brow - Nay! Not adamant, but clay, or dust indeed! And your path, like all roads, leads from the quarry, to the sculptor's bench, and then - as you so rightly say - to Roman forms, and then beyond: your stones taken for hovels, the hovels razed to the ground, and so once again to dust, and aeons, and perhaps after aeons, to the quarry once more. No irony, in the end, but a trajectory common and inevitable. Mount thy concrete Galatea while thou can'st!

Sonic says shut your mouth and HTFU.

Re: Facts about yourself! Sacrilege! There's no comparison between the satin, fleshlike smoothness of Greek marble and the rough-cast Roman stone of thy strained metaphor. Better that Icarus should give flying lessons, that Zeus should be heard to extol the virtue of marital fidelity, than that thou shouldst make these bedroom quips in thy upstart "language of love".

Sonic rules!

So we're talking about concrete-filled lead balloons being used for pillows?

Re: What's on your mind? You're right that they can be dismal environments (the penguin habitat where we went seemed kind of miserable), but as Yobo and BAN say, they're all different. Part of the stated function of the Central Park Zoo is to provide a safe breeding habitat for endangered species. And having an ex-gf who is a zookeeper, I've seen firsthand the passion that goes into caring for these animals. They're not just there for our entertainment.

Re: What's on your mind? Not that big, but there were a lot of cool animal exhibits. Perfect kid size, my son was running around and having a blast for the most part. A squirrel got into the snow leopard habitat and we watched him taunting the leopard for a little while, the seals were rambunctious, the penguins were adorable, the lemurs were grooming each other...

Hanging out with the sea lions at the Central Park Zoo, with my wife and kid! Pretty awesome.

Re: Facts about yourself!

Amorphis - Elegy Cool, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

It was great. We were right on the Tennessee border. The mountains are so beautiful, and we got to go hiking... so much fun.

"All of us", naturally, referring to you.

Ah, I see, so you're sort of like the early evening entertainment for patrons, rather than it being a "show"? That's what a pub gig is? I misunderstood... sounds great! Good luck.

Oh sure, Raleigh without half the people would be ok... really I dug the mountains a lot more, the couple of times I went there. We took our honeymoon in Boone, it was awesome!

Needing a break from the South is something I totally get...

Yeah, ok, as long as the vocalist is more solid, has the range for all of those songs (A-HA? Really? ) and can do a couple of different styles, and your guitarist knows what's going on, should be a lot of fun. It's cool you get to play some originals too. Honestly, 45-50 min is a really long setlist in my experience - at least here in NYC, we're lucky to get more than 20-25. I feel like that's a good thing, especially if you're just starting out - go in strong, play your best material, close with something short and sweet... So my one thought is, can you pare it back? If you have to play the full set, it's good to have the material, but 17 songs might be a lot for the audience to sit through, regardless of how good you are.

Re: Facts about yourself! I need to check the schedule, I might be able to do a one-day thing. I very much doubt I could take the time and money for more than that, but it would be awesome to drop by.

Yup, get everybody else to do the hard work while you ride around on your tandem thinking you're a tough guy. Sure.

That's a little too heavy for me. Maybe when I was younger, I would have been into it.

Re: Facts about yourself! Shhh, don't tell Iceni.

By the way - fuck mornings. And you know why? The cats. We lose hours of sleep a night because of our fuzzy darlings. I blame the cats!

Northern Japan, or Kamchatka... nah, Ghouly lives in San Francisco, she could practically walk there.

Re: What do you want people to say about you when you are gone? Well, then, you've gotta give us more to work with.