1 post tagged “jim white”
Doggie is doing slightly better. I mean, in so far in that she's eating again. She's still not well though, dragging her little feet, but at least if she eats she'll grow a little stronger again. Well, hopefully anyway.
Was supposed to take my CCNA exam today, but it got postponed as they don't have enough space for me to actually do the exam. Truth be told, I'm glad it did, cause frankly, it'd be a 100% fail. Those 80% pass exams just suck. They're too hard :-/ Now it's up somewhere in November, so that buys me a little time.
Not much going on at the moment. Work's dragging along. Couple of meetings which bored the hell out of me and a few minorly challenging things to sort out. That and about half a zillion technical design drawings. Those drawings take forever to make. Somewhere along the way I am supposed to set up our new branch in Leeuwarden too, so I'll be spending some time there. To make a long story short, I'll hardly be in the office for most of October, which suits me fine.
Been listening to Gogol Bordello all day and Bonnie Prince Billy now. Drums on his latest album are played by Jim White, who's the Dirty Three drummer. He's got the most gentle, almost bluesy touch. That, and he's such a nice guy. Whenever he plays the drums, he reminds me of an octopus, arms waving around all over the place. That's after you get over the "scruffy pizza baker" look though. I think that's cute though. Haven't spoken to him for a while now, but he's sorted me out with tickets a couple of times where he didn't have to. I was kind of hoping maybe he'd be playing with Beth Orton in Dublin. Whatever the case, he's been very busy doing Wil Oldham's latest, as wel as New Buffalo's "The Last Beautiful Day" and Nina Nastasia's latest "On Leaving". He certaintly did the Came So Far For Beauty shows as well, as mentioned in this article, speaking of the upcoming shows in Dublin. Can't wait.
Note to self: Check out Last Harbour's latest, The Drones and Loene Carmen
