Hubby and I celebrated our anniversary with an evening out at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis to see Matteo Mancuso. Let me just say that we would both do that again in a heartbeat. We had never been to the Dakota before. It’s the perfect size venue for live music for this time in our lives. Yes, we’re now Olds, and we prefer more intimate venues where the volume doesn’t blow out our eardrums…
Hubby bought me the entire collection of Florence + the Machine compact discs (CDs) for my birthday. There are five albums: Lungs (2009) Ceremonials (2011) How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015) High As Hope (2018) Dance Fever (2022) I had heard the song “Dog Days Are Over” from Lungs quite some time ago and was impressed with both the song and video. Over the past year, I looked up more of the band’s videos…
Welcome to a new edition of Frankensteining the Talent Pool, a long-running but occasional series on my blog, wherein I express my wishes for talented people I’d like to see work together. I’ve done this series often enough that I have a category for it. Click the Frankensteining the Talent Pool link above the blog post title to see more in this category. Over the holiday season, I got Hubby a couple of Devin Townsend…