It seems like it should be Friday.

Had the big company meeting starting Saturday.
Meet and greet Sat evening, then a 2 1/2 bus trip out
to Wilmington for some “bonding” activities.
Not nearly as bad as it would sound, almost
enjoyable.

Monday was various breakout sessions and talks.
Didn’t get a whole lot out of them, as they were
a bit short for most of the subjects being addressed.

More meetings Tuesday. Monday and Tuesday both had
to start at around 9am, so I wasn’t the biggest
fan of that, but I survived and caught up on
sleep last night.

Got some compliments and some friendly jibes
about a matter I’ll discuss in more detail
later.

The show at Bickett is tomorrow. Should be interesting.
Need to run out to a guitar shop and buy some spare
cables.

Chuckle. So I’m googling for a good
site for the Oxes and stumbled up this one

So I start clicking though it. At some point I start
thinking about how generic the entire indy rock sphere
can be at times, and how all these photos look familiar
but distant, and how the people look like people I
might know, or have seen at some point.

Then I got to
this pic. It then occurs to me. I do know those people!

aka, that and the couple pics before and after it are
taken at ps211 in
winston. aka, the guy in the brown shirt in the back
staring directly at the camera is Marty from Japan Air. And
Brian from Finks/Bo Stephens is in a few other shots
along with other random winston-salem people.

Got off work last night and had a nice streak of
good timing.

First, headed over to
nightlight to see Chris Cutler.
Got there about five minutes before the show started. An extremely impressive perfomance. Heavily processed avant percussion. Way cool.
I definitely need to track down some of his recent work
now.

Left five minutes after to head back to raleigh, to catch
The Oxes at Kings. Got
there about 5 minutes before the show started. Nice performance.
The band is a math rockish trio. On the grand scale of math rock
( with 0 being say, celine dion, and 10 being a Don Cabellero/King
Crimson double bill, they are about 7.8). But, the performance
was entertaining. Lots of running though the crowd (they make
the most of the wireless setups on the guitars). Quite entertaining.

Relish “whats in my cd player” with Doug Hawkins

Relish (winston salem weekly entertainment paper) interview with my friend Doug Hawkins
about “whats in your cd player”.

– _ – eyris – _ –

Looks like a fun toy.