Monday, October 19, 2015

music appreciation (and gambled out)

and so this year's been a music year apparently - NOLA brass bands, country bands,  Memphis blues, Hawaiian, Cajun, German/Bavarian (for Wurstfest) in a couple weeks....

the bluegrass festival this weekend was a good time - a bit more of a restrained crowd than I'm used to but there's just something about a standup bass, a fiddle and a banjo. There just is.

especially loved how people brought their instruments and joined together randomly to play as they wanted. It's also lovely to see people hold on to their culture in music (or if not born into it, appreciate the music so much they join it). 

we also made it to a casino night. Put my money on black at the roulette wheel
(annnnd my typical luck in gambling this year...) the wheel didn't even bother with red for me, nope, went right to thumb your nose green - not sure if there's a clearer sign than that...



I read Vegas is looking at changing itself to arcade gaming anyway "for the turning generation"
...guess mine's the last of the old school, cause that doesn't sound all that appealing to me.

Mine's the first of the new school too though cause hours and hours of my youth was spent on  MarioBros./Zelda/Tetris/Galaga etc -   its actually strange how I just completely lost interest?

Read the first of Stephanie Lauren's Cynster books - finished it but it was wordy. I skipped.
Also finished the last of the Pennyroyal Green - not bad, like how they owned up to being young and stupid.