Wall to Wall Guitar Festival: The Traveling Blues

Well.

I've just returned from probably the single most amazing blues concert of my life. Up to this point, of course; there's still King Biscuit Fest next weekend.

Krannert is hosting a four-day festival celebrating guitar music in all its forms - Spanish, Slide, Blues, Jazz... You name it, and it's on the schedule.

Tonight was the kick-off concert with Mamadou Diabate, Rory Block, and Taj Mahal. I'm linking these artists to their Amazon.com pages in the hope that you'll take a minute to listen to their samples. AMAZING music. So much history and talent and power and emotion. I can't describe it. Good live music always leaves me feeling thrilled and mournful all at once. Thrilled to have experienced it, sad that others did not.

And tomorrow is Serenity!!!!!!!! EVERYONE GO SEE THIS MOVIE! And if you haven't seen any of Firefly, LET ME KNOW. I will LEND it to you so you can understand, so you can see, so you can feel what I'll be feeling at tomorrow's show. ...'Course, you'd have to marathon the show before seeing the movie... Ah, well. SEE IT ANYWAY.

So much good stuff going on the next few days. I'm feeling really blessed by family and friends and creativity and laughter and fellowship. Thank you all for making my life richer. :-)

Theresa, you'll appreciate this

Was reading through Stargate fic author journals, and came across this entry of hyare's detailing her adventures with an unidentified critter of some sort in another room of her house.

[Excerpt]

"the scurrying is getting closer omg and am totally skeered. do doubt critter is more afeared of me than i of it, but tis' close call. I wish i had a broom or something to whack it with, but technology being waht it is, we have replaced broom with vacuums. Swedish ones which are too big and too expensive to toss around on vertebrate animals. wish I had a phone book, but alas, that is on the desk, in the kitchen, where criter is. Have found two heavy tomes in the dining room to toss at criter if he comes out of kitchen (which he won't cause dining room very bright), a enligh-korean dictionary and the bible in korean. feel somewhat sacrilegious in throwing bible at critter, though don't think God would mind. Much. Would rather throw bible than dictionary, cause pretty sure that the bilble has only been read a half-dozen times max, and this particular red-leather cover dictionary mom has had since college. so in dilemma about what to throw"

Reminded me of Theresa's face-off with the Giant Mouse of Doom a few years back. :-D