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It was another fun Noise Pop here in the sunny Bay Area.
Over the week I was able to check out Grand Archives at Amoeba, then saw them again at the Independent the following night. They are strong and have a good future ahead....singer/guitarist formerly of Band of Horses, who we can't get enough of in this house.
Kelley Stoltz blew me out of the water. His backing band was sick and he is off the charts talented. David Byrne meets Tom Waits with some Dylan and swing and poetics. Would love to see more of him...he is off on tour.
Delta Spirit at Cafe du Nord was lovely, mostly due to the fact that that album is one of the defining sounds of my February, which is OVER . thank god. Port O'Brien were very very fair. I really wanted to love them but didn't.
Off to bed. Hope everyone is well...
Bazo
May 6 1998- February 22, 2008
February 22, 2008
Today I said good-bye to my first dog, Mambazo Daisy Slade Brown Schaaf.
The final farewell felt pretty close to what I had imagined it would: the pain, the tissues, and the denial. It was all there. Cancer in December. Tests, organ removal. Wagging tail, one last romp here, one last walk here. The way I found her. The noises she was making. But the deep sadness has a cataclysmic, dreadful twist to it. Even now it is thick and stuck to me with a real despondency that I have never felt before. Dave Matthews: "tonight let’s be lovers, tomorrow let's be friends." I know the song inside and out but I check the title, as though I haven't listened to it once a month for a decade. Located: "Say Goodbye", yes, of course. I'm turning and turning for her. The fire is bright...just for this evening. Intimacy in many forms.
When you are given two months, it does not mean a thing. Led Zeppelin, In through the Out Door, Beth Orton, My Morning Jacket, Doves, Ani DiFranco, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Decemberists, Bob Marley, Midlake, John Coltrane, Phish. Time becomes warped. Two months.
There is much to write-memories to unfurl and faces and photos to erect-but not now. Now all I need to do is begin to understand this new gentle/rough/peaceful silence that Bazo has left behind.
February 23, 2008
It was close to 1 a.m. when I woke to find two small burning embers, to hear the wind and the rattle of the flue, and soon to bed. Waking up blue. Band of Horses and Radiohead, bawling.
Drove to Nob Hill to meet Eliza and Jenn for brunch. Yellow ranunculus, new shoes that fit, walking in the rain. Neil Young- Live at Massey Hall. Hayes valley for local designers and a beautiful frame and home to dig into bags and envelopes and stacks of photographs. Driving over windy hills. Non-native eucalyptus leaves blowing, this time in my way. Delta Spirit.
Tears. Emptiness. Joy. Fulfillment. Low tide. High tide. Low tide. Ricky Lee Jones, "Stewarts Coat", some Regina Spektor.
"Juno" and popcorn and milk duds and Pinot with Jenn. Shins, Feist, a mix from Jim, left for me to find along side a dog who waited for me. I waited for her, she waited for me. There, collapsed and belly bleeding, she waited for me. Exile on Main Street.
Beautiful dog.
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I'm sorry, beautiful post, and a really nice tribute.
This was Bear,
it's been awhile but I have yet to find another,
eventually perhaps...
A lovely testament. I'm sorry you had to experience this. I don't know about you, but I am of the sort who believes, "Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all..."
A beautiful Eulogy. You have taken your sense of loss and woven for us a moving tribute. Thank you for sharing.
procratinating, poking around on line looking for news of beth orton, and i found this:
http://www.annielennoxsing.com/sing.php
check it out. annie lennox got 23 female artists for "sing"...passing very important messages regarding mother to child transmissions and the prevention of HIV ...
here is the list of 23 from her site
MADONNA
CELINE DION
P!NK
SHAKIRA
KT TUNSTALL
DIDO
FAITH HILL
FERGIE
SUGABABES
BETH ORTON
BONNIE RAITT
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
JOSS STONE
MELISSA ETHERIDGE
ANGELIQUE KIDJO
BEVERLEY KNIGHT
K.D LANG
SHINGAI SHONIWA
GLADYS KNIGHT
ISOBEL CAMPBELL
SARAH McLACHLAN
ANASTACIA
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Are Grand Archives more or less in a similar vein as Band of Horses?