Month: April 2000

First order of business (besides

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First order of business (besides dinner which is cooking in the microwave) is the Moxy Früvous concert from last Wednesday night. They are incredibly fun to see. They opened with Nowhere Man by the Beetles and went on to perform an amazing concert. This is my third time seeing them… the first was in Philly, the second was at the Keswick Theater outside of Philly, and Wednesday night was in Wilmington. Although the concert was still excellent, I think the other two shows were just a little better… just my humble opinion. I’ll be seeing them again at the Appel Farm Festival in June.

The next day, I took off with Alissa for Lancaster. Over the next few days, we had a Passover Seder with tons of people, went to downtown Lancaster, ate dinner at Casablanca in Wilmington (yep, back to Delaware), and had an Easter dinner. Casablanca was very fun, and I was very proud of Alissa for having the guts to get up and belly dance on stage. She was sort of dragged into it… but those classes are finally paying off! The way I see it, she could get a job dancing once a week at a Turkish or Moroccan restaurant.

It was a week for many-course meals, with the Passover Seder one day, followed by the seven-course Moroccan dinner at Casablanca. Speaking of dinner…

I finally found out the

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I finally found out the name of a certain song I like. I hear it every once in a while and it’s always fun because it plays around with the meter a little bit. It’s The Ocean by Led Zeppelin. The way I hear it, there’s a measure of four simple beats in half time, then a measure with two simple beats in half time followed by two compound beats (not in half time), with the sixteenth note staying equal throughout. If that made no sense to you, here’s a little diagram:

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| (sixteenth notes)
X|||X|||X|||X|||X|||X|||X||X|| (with beats)
1 + 2e+         1e+ 2e+ 3 a4 a (guitar rhythym)