Game 3, books, and music.

Edmonton sure didn’t look like Cup Contenders by the end of game 2, as Carolina beat their sorry asses 5-0.  Sure they’ve lost Roloson for the rest of the series, but that doesn’t excuse their leaving Jussi with-the-unpronouncable-and-unspellable-last-name out to dry the way they did.

Some how I think that tonight in game 3, at home, they will get their collective shit together and put a hurting on the Hurricanes.  Granted at this point it’s probably too late (although they did come back from 0-2 in the San Jose series) but I don’t want to see them roll over and die and get swept… for no other reason than I want there to be five more games this season and not just two… so I’m selfish, shoot me.

Anyway, I picked up the Ian Flemming – James Bond Novel thread where I left off a couple of weeks ago.  Book number nine out of 14… Thunderball.  I was just lounging on the couch in the living room with the iPod in my ears and the book in my face, but my eyes got tired and started crossing so I had to stop… stupid lazy eye.

The book of the day is Thunderball, but the music of the day… week… and probably month has turned out to be Victory at Sea.  I saw Mo Elliot about a hundred years ago at the Middle East upstairs.  It was my first time in the club, and we were supposed to be downstairs and didn’t realize we were in the wrong place.  We saw Mo and a New York art pop band called Run On (who were very good, and their guitar player used to be in a band called Lovechild with a drummer who’s cousin worked with me in Tewksbury… sing it with me:  It’s a small world after all….)  Anyway, we watched Mo’s solo set and I liked it a lot.  Sad and creepy and nice and depressing… just how I like it.  then we watched Run On (I might have the order reversed here… it was about 10 years ago, maybe more) then we realized we were in the wrong place and went downstairs and saw The Dambuilders and became instant obsessed Dambuilder fans.  Okay, I was already a fan, but that show kinda hurled me over the edge.

Some time later… probably years later, but I can’t quite remember now… I saw Victory at Sea on the same stage.  I also picked up the Snow 7″.  I can’t remember which event happened first though.  After seeing them I picked up the cd The Dark is Just the Night.  My reaction to Snow was simple.  WOW!  The Middle East gig and the cd were a little different.  My initial reaction to both was WOW, but as they played through the gloominess and depressingness of the songs got to me.  It’s very difficult for gloomy songs to reach a point where they are too gloomy for me, but Victory at Sea did it to me in both cases.  I liked the band a lot.  A Whole Lot.  But only in small doses.  Around this time I basically stopped paying attention to music in Boston in general.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago.

I picked up, what I believe is, the most recent release which is called All Your Things are Gone.  It is fantastic.  As close to perfect as I’ve heard in a terribly long time.  It’s completely in my head.  Check back through the last couple of weeks worth of posts here and you’ll see it mentioned in a bunch of them.  It’s just a really high quality piece of work.  I’m actually a little pissed off that the band is this much better than when I last saw them and I wasn’t paying attention and missed out on their evolution from really good to fucking great.

So I did what I usually do when I stumble across a new recording artist.  Off I go to CD Baby… Carousel and The Good Night were delivered yesterday, and Memoies Fade is coming via amazon in the near future.

Check out their myspace page here and hopefully you’ll be saying WOW! too.