The audience at Kate Klim’s show at Club Passim last night was quite a varied mix of ages and couples. Kate has a very sweet, bright and attractive stage presence, and when we saw her in Bridgewater back in May, she told some funny boyfriend stories. Kate didn’t do that last night, but a year ago she posted this cute video where she pressures an old boyfriend to talk about her.
http://youtu.be/uutgbnoTCLY
I love BBC Radio 2’s Sunday programme lineup, because it’s all over the place musically and the hosts are sincerely enthusiastic about their respective genres of interest. Today, Paul O’Grady, who’s all over the place all by himself, played an 80’s UK hit called Marguerita Time. I didn’t recognize the tune…
… but the name of the band, Status Quo, I knew from a psychedelic 60’s favourite, Pictures of Matchstick Men.
http://youtu.be/_kG-mU7wgW4
With fifteen years between the two songs, I wondered if it could be the same band, and the answer is yes, albeit with some personnel changes along the way.
Carol and I are on our way to Harvard Square (as in Harvard University), to see folk-country singer-songwriter Kate Klim at Club Passim.
It should be possible to watch the show live, online, at this link. It starts at 8, with Rebecca Correia opening.
What had been a routine matter — raising the federal government’s debt limit to make payments on money already owed — has been turned into a high stakes political showdown, and I think that’s good. But the thing is, the outcome of the polarized negotiations is not in doubt. It’s an absolute certainty that the debt limit will be raised before, or in, the eleventh hour, then Congress will take August off and Obama will go to Martha’s Vineyard. The only question is how much the Republicans will be forced to step back from their position. To get perspective on how we got to where we are, watch this Frontline documentary from early in Obama’s Presidency.
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
It’s Saturday morning, so I’m listening to Barnes Newberry’s show “My Back Pages” on mvyradio. Barnes played a very favorite song of mine, Buffalo Springfield doing Neil Young’s On The Way Home. Only 2½ minutes long, this one really hits the spot.
http://youtu.be/DeeDb8JaFwg
Netflix is taking a lot of heat for the big increases in plan pricing. My account page says:
The price of your Unlimited Streaming + 2 DVDs out at-a-time (Unlimited) plan will change to $22.98 (including $3.00 for Blu-ray) (plus any applicable tax) a month starting with your next billing period on or after Sep 01, 2011.
To stay at the same $18/month I now pay for streaming video and two discs at home, with the Blu-ray option, I have to drop to one disc with Blu-ray. So that’s what I’m probably going to do. Right now there are only two Blu-ray titles in my disc queue, so I’m even considering dumping the option, because that would be $7/month less than the $23/month the 2-disc plan will cost in September, and that’s $7×12 months=$84, which would cover the $79/year that Amazon Prime costs. It’s a classic Economics problem in determining marginal utility.
