Night of the Comet
Thursday, January 11 2007
25:01
Back in the fall of 1994, my roommate Eddie and I went to see Velocity Girl open for Sugar at the Roseland. VG were great, and after about three songs into Sugar's set we figured what was the point, so we left. A few days later, VG played at Maxwell's in Hoboken, so we went out there. Totally different type of place, and that show was pretty amazing. I fell in love with Sarah Shannon right then and there, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. We loitered around after the show, and Archie was nice enough to come chat with us for a while. He said he remembered me from the Roseland show, because he thought for a minute that Kevin Shields was in the audience. I'd never really noticed a resemblance before, but could see it a little bit. Remembering this now, I pulled out my student ID and compared it with some photos of Kevin online. Holy crap. In 1994 I looked pretty much like a slightly skinnier twin to a 1992 Kevin Shields. Comparing recent pictures, the resemblance isn't really there so much anymore.
Worked from home today. Will be going in tomorrow. Got a call from my dad in the early evening, that began "If you look out your kitchen window, to the southwest or west-southwest..." and I finished, "You can see the comet?". Indeed. Comet McNaught. Glad he gave me the heads-up. I'd forgotten about it, and how it was looking to be pretty spectacular. To the unaided eye, nothing very big but a definite and clearly non-normal comet-looking type thing just at the transition from orange glow to deep blue sky above the horizon. Scrounged up some binoculars, and wow. This is the first time I'd ever seen a comet with my own eyes, despite being around for Halley in 1986 and Hale-Bopp in 1997 (the former was probably blocked by the ubiquitous clouds in Seattle, the latter by the many buildings of Manhattan, guess I wasn't excited enough about it to go over to the river). I got a couple pictures of it with the meager zoom on my camera. In them, "it's visible" is about all you can say.
apt. listening: Tom McCarthy - Spark and Luminance. This just showed up along w/ a bunch of other stuff in the mail yesterday. good stuff.
25:01
Back in the fall of 1994, my roommate Eddie and I went to see Velocity Girl open for Sugar at the Roseland. VG were great, and after about three songs into Sugar's set we figured what was the point, so we left. A few days later, VG played at Maxwell's in Hoboken, so we went out there. Totally different type of place, and that show was pretty amazing. I fell in love with Sarah Shannon right then and there, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. We loitered around after the show, and Archie was nice enough to come chat with us for a while. He said he remembered me from the Roseland show, because he thought for a minute that Kevin Shields was in the audience. I'd never really noticed a resemblance before, but could see it a little bit. Remembering this now, I pulled out my student ID and compared it with some photos of Kevin online. Holy crap. In 1994 I looked pretty much like a slightly skinnier twin to a 1992 Kevin Shields. Comparing recent pictures, the resemblance isn't really there so much anymore.
Worked from home today. Will be going in tomorrow. Got a call from my dad in the early evening, that began "If you look out your kitchen window, to the southwest or west-southwest..." and I finished, "You can see the comet?". Indeed. Comet McNaught. Glad he gave me the heads-up. I'd forgotten about it, and how it was looking to be pretty spectacular. To the unaided eye, nothing very big but a definite and clearly non-normal comet-looking type thing just at the transition from orange glow to deep blue sky above the horizon. Scrounged up some binoculars, and wow. This is the first time I'd ever seen a comet with my own eyes, despite being around for Halley in 1986 and Hale-Bopp in 1997 (the former was probably blocked by the ubiquitous clouds in Seattle, the latter by the many buildings of Manhattan, guess I wasn't excited enough about it to go over to the river). I got a couple pictures of it with the meager zoom on my camera. In them, "it's visible" is about all you can say.
apt. listening: Tom McCarthy - Spark and Luminance. This just showed up along w/ a bunch of other stuff in the mail yesterday. good stuff.
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