Saint Swithun was from Winchester, England and is widely remembered because on St. Switun’s Day, July 15 (my birthday), if it rains, it will rain for forty days and forty nights! This from the British weather love proverb:
St Swithun’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithun’s day if thou be fair
For forty days ’twill rain na mair
Thus far, as I recall, it has yet to rain on my date of birth. Hopefully, this year will be the same!
Pretty & Nice, TV Smith, Jay Reatard – Harpers Ferry – July 3
Pretty and Nice: Interesting kids…. Their music mixed loud, fast punk with some glimmers of power pop. Musically, they had the chops, but they didn’t stand out more than any other band to me. On the other hand, it was their “antics” that caught my attention. These include singing songs about ponies for mic checks and similar little songs between their actual numbers, making extremely strange, almost robotic faces, often while rocking out on the guitar (mainly this was just one guitarist and it looked as though he would fall at any moment haha). Continue reading Review: Jay Reatard, TV Smith, Pretty and Nice @ Harpers Ferry (7/3/09)→
The long awaited KLYAM has arrived and so have the kids (some…not all). Look around (at the pages on top of the banner) to familiarize yourself with what we’re all about. And for future reference, those pages don’t seem capable of supporting posts, so we will be making due by categorizing and tagging posts.