Tag: Rush

Wouldn’t it be Nice?

I’ve been sitting at my computer tonight more or less since I got home.  My beautiful, wonderful, gorgeous, brilliant, amazing wife is next to me.  She built a PC today and is jumping through hoops trying to get all of her software installed and all of her settings the way she wants them.  I’m helping with the heavy lifting here and there.

I’ve also being a bootleg music nerd.  My goal to get a copy of every show on the Rush Clockwork Angels tour is more than likely never going to be achieved, but I’m now up to 17 shows (18 if you count the DVD of the first set of the Brooklyn show, which I don’t).  I’m fighting with the new iTunes and with iTunes match.  Apparently we no longer have the ability to open a playlist in a separate window?  Gee… thanks iTunes.  I never made use of that function ever (and by never I mean I used it constantly).  Now when I drag a new folder full of music into a playlist and have it upload to iTunes Match, it does not add the music to the playlist.  You know, the playlist that I just added it to?  I then have to go into albums and right click and select add to playlist.  It gives me a drop down of all my playlists.  I have about a hundred and eighty thousand of them.  Yeah, that’s easier than having two windows.

Anyway, the real inspiration for this particular waste of server memory is Monday Night Football.  I don’t have the television on, but I keep seeing Facebook and Twitter notifications popping up with posts about the Patriots game.  I live in New England.  I suppose I identify myself as a Patriots fan.  I just don’t live and die by football the way 95% of my fellow New Englanders do.  I want my home team to win, but I am not going to get upset if they don’t.

However, all of this football buzz is making me think…

I could really go for some NHL hockey right now.  A Bruins game would sure be a lot more interesting than a Patriots game.  Hell, a Columbus vs Florida game would be more interesting to me.  I’d park my largess down on the coach and watch the shit out of a game like that tonight.

Thanks a ton, NHL.

Travel

I can measure the time it took us to drive from Jen’s company Christmas party to our bed and breakfast in Rush albums.

3+

With the iPod shuffling my Rush (studio records only) playlist by album, we heard:
Clockwork Angels
Permanent Waves
Grace Under Pressure
And the first track off of Snakes and Arrows. Three album and one song.

Time for sleep.

G’night.

Rush is Touring N. America in 2013

They made it official yesterday, although no dates have been announced yet.

Rush, having just this week completed the first leg of the Clockwork Angels tour, are going to be touring North America again next year.  I haven’t missed a tour since 1987, but I came damn close this time.  In fact, I failed to see a full show.  We went to the opening night show in Manchester, NH with the kids, but a combination of sleepy children and my gorgeous wife’s bad back had us out of the building early in the 2nd set.  I had tickets to the Boston show, but something came up at (literally) the last second and kept us away.

I would like to think that Rush decided to come back next year (assuming they come somewhere close enough for us to get to, although I have seen them as far away as Milwaukee, WI) specifically so I can see the 2nd set and the encoure.

I cannot wait!
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As I sit in the living room packing up a suitcase or two (for what reason, I don’t know) I am listening to Clockwork Angels.  I haven’t spun this particular platter in a month or two.

Yes, it is still the best Rush album since at least 1981, and it still may be the best album they have ever made.

Please come to Boston for the Springtime, oh Holy Triumvirate of Prog.