Beer & Sausages
Today was another meeting of the beer & sausage crew in the lower Haight. It usually happens on Thursday or Friday when the mysterious Secretary of Sausages sends out an email. Who shows up? Artistic types. Today we had two novelists, one composer, four conductors(!), a writer of instructional manuals, and a brief appearance by a translator of Persian Poetry. What do we do? Hang out all afternoon, drink beer, and eat sausages. There’s also some artistic chat. Back and forth about music, movies, books, etc. It’s fun to learn from the authors how novels are written, edited, published.
After that — some of us head over to Amoeba Music (one of the last great record stores), and pick up some music. It’s there that my ears get opened to some new stuff. Here’s what I picked up today.
Stuff I’ve been meaning to get …
Bjork - Vespertine (never actually heard it!)
David Bowie - “Heroes” (I love the Bowie/Eno Berlin Trilogy)
Prince - Dirty Mind (Prince is a genius)
HIF Biber - Batallia and Requiem w/Jordi Savall (Biber is a mad 17th Century composer)
And stuff my friends suggested …
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Matmos - The Civil War
John Zorn - Masada Live in Sevilla 2000