Izzy was in a terrible mood all weekend: a tantrum when she didn't get to read an extra book before bedtime, a tantrum when she didn't get to wear the new dress; didn't want to get out of the stroller to see the clownfish or the turtle or the penguins being fed at the aquarium (she eventually did); didn't want to take her nap, and more general wilfullness, including, worst of all, biting me twice! Hopefully she snaps out of it, as she is usually positively angelic. =)
Saw Caetano Veloso at the Masonic on Saturday night, and he was absolutely fantastic. (I wasn't too enamored of his latest album, A Foreign Sound, quite frankly; the world doesn't really need yet another version of "Cry Me A River," but Veloso's unerringly beautiful voice makes it all worthwhile.) Highlights: an awesome "Baby" (one of my favorite songs of all time), Jacques Morelenbaum plucking out Krist Novoselic's bass line on his cello at the beginning of "Come As You Are," and -- of course he wouldn't forget the big crowd pleaser -- "Cucurrucucu Paloma," which was fucking sublime.
Played hooky (after much work today, and grading all last week, thank you very much) by going to SF MoMA with my friend and colleague Ben to the William Eggleston show, probably my favorite photographer. Much has been said about Eggleston's use of color and his "democratic" eye, but for me it has always been the unsettling manner in which his photographs transform your ordinary; one looks around one's world and sees Eggleston in the details.
do you have that version of baby? i do... my most favorite in all the land. also, i have a live version of cucurrucucu paloma and a non live version.
he is amazing.
i'm back, btw. edinburgh sounds like it was fun.
Posted by: karen on October 19, 2004 12:59 PM