Mom is laughing this morning.. She's reading the newspaper, the local paper, or as they call it the pamphlet, four pages of "news"... birdcage liner.. And she isn't laughing at the funnies, or a funny story, but rather the main entertainment we both get from the paper is the misspelling of a lot of very easy words... But oh well, they are under a deadline and pruf reading is knot that umportant...
Got more Tomatoes yesterday.. Trying something a little different this year.. Trying to start the pumpkins in those starter pots that dissolve in the ground, and this makes it easier to keep track of where they are. The pumpkins are not the big gigantoid kind but rather a medium sized fruit will be made.. I like the directions to thin to one pumpkin per vine.. Ok, I'll do that.. eventually.. maybe.. I so easily could have picked up a dozen tomato plants yesterday but I have only a set amount of space.. Setting the irrigation is always fun but once it is set it is good for the season.. or the first Friday after getting it set, because it seems like a constant fight to keep it working right.. But I like messing with it...
Memorial day was fun.. Warm, and of course some crappy weather, hey it wouldn't be Memorial day proper without crappy weather of some sort.. So we get a tornado warning, or my older brother does and instantly he goes into a panic.. Not to get somewhere safe but rather into a place to see if he can watch for one. Well panic is a little harsh, but he wants to chase or at the very least give it a good look see.. We get out there and really I thought our chances of seeing anything were going to be slim.. The warning was for where he lives some twenty miles away and the tornadoes were beyond that around 25 miles away.. But you never know what could be there.. As we went out we saw other vehicles stopped to look at the sky and I couldn't help to think it looked like a drive in theater way back when I was younger, only the sky was the screen and it was the middle of the afternoon..
The past week or so I have been reloading the computer with music again after the re-restart.. And listening to songs that I haven't heard in quite a while. And while going through the sets what I am starting to realize is just how brittle the boxes become with age.. The two disc sets with that second disc that is on a swing tray thing that opens one of two ways and they can be sort of stuck or not stuck at all and you guessed wrong how to open the tray to get to the second disc.. In my case, I was trying to open it and it snapped, the second disc was fine, the tray on the other hand took it in the shorts.. Some of the music is just what the hell was I thinking when I bought it.. Other sets, like the KISS the box (their box set) has taken on a whole new meaning for fan box set with the addition of the early Kiss music, the stuff from each member from before they were in KISS and the strangeness of their sound, you would never guess that these guys would ever get together and make the kind of music and stage show that they would do..
When I bought the box set I got it in the deluxe version, which means I was one of the few that got it in the miniature guitar case, with the hard cover book.. I knew about 15 songs it should have, there were some surprises and a few disappointments. There were a few songs that I wished it would have had and they could have included them the discs were none of them overly loaded with songs, back then as now a disc has 79:59 on it, and they are none of them any more than 73 minutes which is good, but could have been just a few more songs.. Oh well, I'm sure there were those that said the same thing about the ELP box set..
Box sets were a great way to get the most of the best by any group especially if getting all the albums by a group seemed to expensive to do.. One such group was Emerson Lake and Palmer.. Getting the Return of The Manticore seemed the best way to get everything by them that mattered.. I wasn't able to read reviews on the set before buying it but I liked it when I did get it.. What with the songs that I only heard excerpts from this was a giant find.. The opus set Karn Evil 9 was reason enough to get it.. I had only heard the single version (welcome back my friends to the show that never ends) and so this was great.. Then getting the live version of the song unedited was huge as well in the KBFH release..
Badge Henry
No comments:
Post a Comment