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Setlist: The Police 11/17

So I thought I had already posted this, but I didn’t. Was a good show, it was the Police in the round. The only thing I did realize is that [tag]Sting[/tag] or perhaps [tag]the Police[/tag] specifically have great deal of lyrics which are NOT words. Regardless a good show and one I never thought I would see.

Setlist the Police Atlanta, November 17, 2007 – Phillips Arena:

Message in a Bottle
Synchronicity II
Walking On The Moon
Voices Inside My Head
When The World Is Running Down – (Beer and bathroom run)

[tag]Don’t Stand So Close To Me[/tag] (The two couples next to use left after?!?!!?)

Driven To Tears
Truth Hits Everybody
Hole In My Life
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Walking In Your Footsteps (Probably the surprise rock song of the night)
Can’t Stand Losing You
[tag]Roxanne[/tag]
[tag]King Of Pain[/tag]
So Lonely
[tag]Every Breath You Take[/tag]
Next To You

The did have a brief break, but I wouldn’t say they had an “Encore”.  There were no telltale signs of lighters or the “open cell phone” phenomena which happens at “over 40” shows to encourage the band to come back.  Also, apparently folks think their phones take good pictures from 35 yards in the dark with lighting effects.

November 27, 2007 by
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Spatially Relative: A community’s place…

 

So I’ve have had the opportunity this week close out “The Collectors”, a fairly disappointing novel actually, and get back to this quirky little book which has been in my bag for 5 months, “[tag]Bob’s Ichthyosaur[/tag]” by [tag]John Britt[/tag]. It’s one of those [tag]books[/tag] you would never buy, but somehow you have it in your bag. So, what the heck! Give it a read. So far a very intriguing [tag]fiction[/tag] read, which isn’t my typical Thriller fodder for air travel.
I met John randomly on holiday in Canada with my wife when taking our kid in for an ear infection at a rural hospital. After chatting about emergency room visits and general pleasantries – he gave us a copy of his book and I have finally gotten to it. Regardless of my slack reading habits, I ran into interesting run on sentence in the book which just make one think about how relative spatial relationships are….

“I would have to say our town is North, but not so far north that it’s [tag]north[/tag], or even central for that matter, being to far south for either. So you could say that its [tag]south[/tag] even where its north by most peoples reckoning, and [tag]west[/tag] from most places that matter to most people, but too far east to be west, so its not west either, even if it’s not east which makes it just about anywhere you might be going or might be inclined to go to for that matter”

Where’s your community? Where are you inclined to go?

The online excerpt from the publisher, which is essentially the teaser on the book jacket.:

In th lazy hazy days of old boys, life is a case study of human nature. They are there, the octogenarians and septuagenarians, retired men from farms and business that gather on benches outside of banks and the town halls to theorize on life. The old boys study the passage of rite of Bob, into the world of the old boys. Bob reluctantly falls into the old boy’s club, all the while searching for what is elusive. Into bob’s world enters an extinct forty-foot marine reptile, that lives in the local bay. To satisfy his curiosity, Bob begins his fishing venture determined to capture the elusive Ichthyosaur. A fishing story, an old man’s story, a story reserved for all of those men deserving of being anointed old. Each and every person is searching for their own Ichthyosaur.

While it might not be the typical thing you might read, you might give it a try and think about finding your Ichthyosaur. I am. I’ll let you know when I’m done.

November 6, 2007 by
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B-Travel: ATL to SEA Playlist

So for my [tag]iPod[/tag] on the the way out today, I have a new playlist.

I Shall Be Released-ALO/Jack Johnson
Sweet Emotion-Aerosmith
These Apples-[tag]Barenaked Ladies[/tag]
Jane-Barenaked Ladies
Hard to Handle-The Black Crowes
Remedy-[tag]The Black Crowes[/tag]
You Got It All Wrong –  [tag]Brute[/tag]
Glycerine – Bush
Frank Sinatra – [tag]Cake[/tag]
Workin’ On A Building –  Col. Bruce Hampton & The Codetalkers
What Do You Hear In These Sounds – Dar Williams
Danko / Manuel – Drive By Truckers
Let There Be Rock – Drive By Truckers
Desperado – The Eagles
A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Little Miss S. – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Thorazine Shuffle – Gov’t Mule
Friend of The Devil – [tag]Grateful Dead[/tag]
Good Lovin’ – Grateful Dead
Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead
Fire On The Mounta – Grateful Dead
American Idiot – Green Day
Uncle John’s Band – Indigo Girls
Three Hits – Indigo Girls
Galileo – Indigo Girls
Bouncing Around the Room – The JamGrass Slammers
FarmHouse – The JamGrass Slammers
Gotta Jibboo – The JamGrass Slammers
Chainsaw City – Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
Straight to Hell – [tag]Kevin Kinney[/tag]
Jen Doesn’t Like Me Anymore – Less Than Jake
Sandbox – [tag]Michael Houser[/tag]
Can’t Change The Past – Michael Houser
Captain America – [tag]moe.[/tag]
Meat – moe.
St. Augustine – moe.
Okayalright – Moe.
Trouble In The Fields – [tag]Nanci Griffith[/tag]
The Wing And The Wheel – Nanci Griffith
These Days In An Open Book – Nanci Griffith
That Was a Crazy Game of Poker – O.A.R.
about mr brown – O.A.R.
stranded – SDR
what you got – SDR
Outside And Inside – String Cheese Incident
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
When Love Comes to Town  – U2 & B.B. King
Touch of Grey

Zippy Morocco – Vic Chesnutt
Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
This could be the last time I do a playlist – I forgot how hard it is to format.

November 4, 2007 by
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