Dear Notes of Symphony #1 by Beethoven, the dog, as interpreted by Lady Gaga,
How are things? Sorry, we got a little carried away with the greeting there. But sometimes, in order to remain true to our ideals, we allow ourselves to get carried away. It is like a reverse mullet; party in front, business in back.
Tonight, Thursday March 4, at 9pm, after Geeks Who Drink trivia, we have DJ DKO, an Ableton Solo Artist & Multi-Instrumentalist DJ remixing covers & originals via live looping w/ electric trombone, virtual synths, vocoder & lemur. Darren Kramer (DJ DKO) is a serious musical cat with a jazz background and we're looking forward to seeing what kinds of crazy sounds he puts together. $5
Friday at 7pm we have Cool Shooz, a classic rock acapella group. Then we have a classic cover dance band playing at 9pm called After Babylon. $5.
Saturday at 3pm we have Serenade In Blue. Here's the way they describe themselves, "DENVER'S MOST DANCEABLE BIG BAND - I have a Denver home-grown 14-piece traditional jazz big band called Dr. Bill Valentine's SERENADE IN BLUE SWING BAND. We play standard big band dance music of 1935 to 1950 and some 60's. The music repertoire includes ballads, waltzes, swing, Latin, and light rock dance music. We also have three vocalists within the band. Our goal is to keep alive the music traditions of World War II's big band dance music; music that was played by Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glen Gray, Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown." $8
At 7:30pm Saturday we have HAZEL MILLER (at 7:30pm). Get there early for a seat. Savanna Rose warms the crowd at 6:30p. $10.
At 9:30pm Saturday Clusterfunk comes in with their brand of dance-happy rock and roll. $5.
Reminders: Saturday 10pm, ZUMBA (getting stronger week by week). Sunday, Baby Boogie starting at 2pm with Aden Harrell playing live at 4pm, Salsa lessons at 8pm with La Candela starting at 9:30pm. Monday open stage with Jay Ryan (sign up 6:30pm), Tuesday 9pm Green Mountain, Wednesday Arvada Business Connection at 6pm, Clamdaddys blues jam at 8pm. All this is on the online calendar in case you forget.
We'll see you at the after party.
Love,
D note concluding the symphony by Beethoven, the dog, as interpreted by Lady Gaga
Extra Credit: We randomly opened Wallace Stevens Collected Poems last night to find a poem to read out loud to an unborn child. This is the poem we found.
Nomad Exquisite
As the immense dew of Florida
Brings forth
The big-finned palm
And green vine angering for life,
As the immense dew of Florida
Brings forth hymn and hymn
From the beholder,
Beholding all these green sides
And gold sides of green sides,
And blessed mornings,
Meet for the eye of the young alligator,
And lightning colors
So, in me, come flinging
Forms, flames, and the flakes of flames.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
2/25/10
D tangles,
How are you on this jingle-jangle morning? Or is it still morning? Suppose it all depends upon the angle of the sun. Are you feeling old-fangled or new? Suppose it all depends upon the angle of your view.
Tonight, Thursday, 2/25, at 9pm, after trivia, we'll have the second monthly installment of Improv at The D Note, which will include local troupes and a fantastic troupe from Chicago called Beautiful Horses. Last month we laughed harder than we had for a long time. Funny stuff, and the more of you that come support, the funnier it will be. Matt Need from Uncle Nasty show will be there too and if you say "Hail Nasty" you get in free. Otherwise it is $5.
Got a long beautiful night of music tomorrow. Starts off with the curious gypsy jazz of Blue Avenue: great folks, great musicians and eclectic, even known to cover The Cure. 6:30p. Then at 8pm we have the return of 7even Days Till Sunrise and 2:10 Special, which falls into the poprock category. At 10:30 we have the Sublime intellihop style of Thinking Kap from Idledale Colorado. Finally, around midnight, we have the experimental intellihop of SnubKnowz.
And don't think you are getting off without a full day on Saturday too!
10:30am we have Zumba, dance workout choice of the stars. This is your week to join.
2pm we a beer tasting with Lagunitas. Free pint for members of D Note Pint Club.
4pm we have a benefit for the Sooper Credit Union Community Foundation. This was brought to us by Ken and Jill Fellman and it should be a beautiful afternoon of music for a great cause. Sentimental Sounds Big Band Orchestra is donating there time. There will also be a silent auction. $10 donation.
7pm we have a second benefit for a breast cancer survivor with a Meters style funk/rock band, The Reformers.
9pm we have 2Mex (of The Visionaries) from California w. Sick Illutions, Fresh Breath Committee, 2012, Evil Miro and The KBP. $7 over 21, $10 under. A really hot show, will be off the hook.
Next Tuesday at 8:30p we have a couple cool bands, Trees And Trashcans w/ And Lungs They Burn. FREE.
Next Saturday Hazel Miller.
And we are oubt,
D oubt
Extra credit: A clever, but poignant poem by Gevorg Emin, translated by Diana der Hovanessian
The Question Mark
Poor thing. Poor crippled measure
of punctuation. Who would know,
who could imagine you used to be
an exclamation point?
What force bent you over?
Age, time and other vices
of this century?
Did you not once evoke,
call out and stress?
But you got weary of it all,
got wise, and turned like this
How are you on this jingle-jangle morning? Or is it still morning? Suppose it all depends upon the angle of the sun. Are you feeling old-fangled or new? Suppose it all depends upon the angle of your view.
Tonight, Thursday, 2/25, at 9pm, after trivia, we'll have the second monthly installment of Improv at The D Note, which will include local troupes and a fantastic troupe from Chicago called Beautiful Horses. Last month we laughed harder than we had for a long time. Funny stuff, and the more of you that come support, the funnier it will be. Matt Need from Uncle Nasty show will be there too and if you say "Hail Nasty" you get in free. Otherwise it is $5.
Got a long beautiful night of music tomorrow. Starts off with the curious gypsy jazz of Blue Avenue: great folks, great musicians and eclectic, even known to cover The Cure. 6:30p. Then at 8pm we have the return of 7even Days Till Sunrise and 2:10 Special, which falls into the poprock category. At 10:30 we have the Sublime intellihop style of Thinking Kap from Idledale Colorado. Finally, around midnight, we have the experimental intellihop of SnubKnowz.
And don't think you are getting off without a full day on Saturday too!
10:30am we have Zumba, dance workout choice of the stars. This is your week to join.
2pm we a beer tasting with Lagunitas. Free pint for members of D Note Pint Club.
4pm we have a benefit for the Sooper Credit Union Community Foundation. This was brought to us by Ken and Jill Fellman and it should be a beautiful afternoon of music for a great cause. Sentimental Sounds Big Band Orchestra is donating there time. There will also be a silent auction. $10 donation.
7pm we have a second benefit for a breast cancer survivor with a Meters style funk/rock band, The Reformers.
9pm we have 2Mex (of The Visionaries) from California w. Sick Illutions, Fresh Breath Committee, 2012, Evil Miro and The KBP. $7 over 21, $10 under. A really hot show, will be off the hook.
Next Tuesday at 8:30p we have a couple cool bands, Trees And Trashcans w/ And Lungs They Burn. FREE.
Next Saturday Hazel Miller.
And we are oubt,
D oubt
Extra credit: A clever, but poignant poem by Gevorg Emin, translated by Diana der Hovanessian
The Question Mark
Poor thing. Poor crippled measure
of punctuation. Who would know,
who could imagine you used to be
an exclamation point?
What force bent you over?
Age, time and other vices
of this century?
Did you not once evoke,
call out and stress?
But you got weary of it all,
got wise, and turned like this
Thursday, February 18, 2010
D Note turns 7!
D factos,
We are 7 years old. Hurrah! Seems like way longer than 7 years. Seems like only yesterday. So it goes. Here we are, still, against many odds, and it only took a village to make it happen. Thanks so much to all of you.
For our birthday party we have a worthy line up. First Slo Children, a band consisting of Adam and Jeremy D, Adam Ferrill, Jax and maybe Alejandro Castano, will do a set of D Note classics (In D Note, Lower Arvada Blues, Captain of The Sea, etc) at 6pm. Then our hero Greg Harris will bring his excellent Vibe Quintet to get the dance floor hopping at 7p. After GHVQ one of the most fun reggae dance bands we know, Lion Vibes, will take the stage at 8:30pm. Lion Vibes is followed by a great reggae band, The Desciples at 10p and then at midnight Thrill (our web designer) will throw down an electro set while our GM, MC Dozha unleashes a torrent of word. $7. Come celebrate with us!
Note: 6pm Friday night there will be a wine education by prof. Tony Chadwick of Synergist wines for $10.
Saturday starts early, 10:30am, with our second week of Zumba. We got a dozen of you out last week and everyone had a blast. Not a bad beginning at all. Please come join the fun. You'll be glad you did.
At 4pm we have the Mardi Gras edition of The Music Train Family Concert Series. Local legend Aden Harrell and friends will be playing Mardi Gras songs for the whole family. $7 adults/$3 kids.
We have The Zen Cowgirls 6:30p and then The Jagtones back in the house at 8pm. We'll be doing double duty at the D Note, dancing and donating. The Jagtones are generously giving all door proceeds to Haiti relief. $10 suggested donation. The Jagtones are a fun cover band and always manage to get the house rocking.
Ever and anon,
D La Soul
Extra Credit: If you read enough poems you inevitably get to where you start to see poetry everywhere. See for instance the following paragraph, taken from an article about Charlie Parker by Geoffrey C. Ward in the Nov, 2000 Vanity Fair we found in a discarded at the local gymnasium.
Found Poem (for Bird)
Nothing musical was ever alien
to Charlie Parker. He often drank
at a midtown bar whose jukebox
was stocked with country music.
When one of his acolytes asked why
he liked to hear songs they
thought were corny, he answered,
"Listen. Listen to the stories."
A friend remembered leaving him
transfixed in a Manhattan snowstorm
late one night, unable to tear himself
away from the thump and blare
of a Salvation Army band. Another
told of driving with him through
the countryside when someone
remarked idly that livestock loved
music. Parker asked the driver
to stop, assembled his horn, stalked
into the field, and gravely played
choruses to a bewildered cow.
We are 7 years old. Hurrah! Seems like way longer than 7 years. Seems like only yesterday. So it goes. Here we are, still, against many odds, and it only took a village to make it happen. Thanks so much to all of you.
For our birthday party we have a worthy line up. First Slo Children, a band consisting of Adam and Jeremy D, Adam Ferrill, Jax and maybe Alejandro Castano, will do a set of D Note classics (In D Note, Lower Arvada Blues, Captain of The Sea, etc) at 6pm. Then our hero Greg Harris will bring his excellent Vibe Quintet to get the dance floor hopping at 7p. After GHVQ one of the most fun reggae dance bands we know, Lion Vibes, will take the stage at 8:30pm. Lion Vibes is followed by a great reggae band, The Desciples at 10p and then at midnight Thrill (our web designer) will throw down an electro set while our GM, MC Dozha unleashes a torrent of word. $7. Come celebrate with us!
Note: 6pm Friday night there will be a wine education by prof. Tony Chadwick of Synergist wines for $10.
Saturday starts early, 10:30am, with our second week of Zumba. We got a dozen of you out last week and everyone had a blast. Not a bad beginning at all. Please come join the fun. You'll be glad you did.
At 4pm we have the Mardi Gras edition of The Music Train Family Concert Series. Local legend Aden Harrell and friends will be playing Mardi Gras songs for the whole family. $7 adults/$3 kids.
We have The Zen Cowgirls 6:30p and then The Jagtones back in the house at 8pm. We'll be doing double duty at the D Note, dancing and donating. The Jagtones are generously giving all door proceeds to Haiti relief. $10 suggested donation. The Jagtones are a fun cover band and always manage to get the house rocking.
Ever and anon,
D La Soul
Extra Credit: If you read enough poems you inevitably get to where you start to see poetry everywhere. See for instance the following paragraph, taken from an article about Charlie Parker by Geoffrey C. Ward in the Nov, 2000 Vanity Fair we found in a discarded at the local gymnasium.
Found Poem (for Bird)
Nothing musical was ever alien
to Charlie Parker. He often drank
at a midtown bar whose jukebox
was stocked with country music.
When one of his acolytes asked why
he liked to hear songs they
thought were corny, he answered,
"Listen. Listen to the stories."
A friend remembered leaving him
transfixed in a Manhattan snowstorm
late one night, unable to tear himself
away from the thump and blare
of a Salvation Army band. Another
told of driving with him through
the countryside when someone
remarked idly that livestock loved
music. Parker asked the driver
to stop, assembled his horn, stalked
into the field, and gravely played
choruses to a bewildered cow.
2/11/10
D hearts
No time to waste. We've got some holidays to hype!
First we have Mardi Gras party this Friday. Couldn't be a better line up, even if you were in New Orleans. Otone Brass Band plays at 7p, $8. Otone Brass Band does New Orleans style originals and they are nothing short of fantastic. Then at 9pm we have The Creole Zydeco Farmers, Louisiana's finest Old Skool band. Just check out the photo of these guys on The Colorado Friends Of Cajun/Zydeco website. $15. There will be lots of beads, lots of dancing, lots of spirit.
Saturday morning at 10:30am we have our first ZUMBA class. This is a new kind of work-out that is dance oriented and super fun. Come help us get the Zumba party started. $8.
Saturday at 5pm-7pm we have Kana Ka Pila, a event which features hawaiin musicians in a traditional jam. FREE. Very romantic date material for Valentine's Day BTW.
Saturday night, in case you don't want the date to end early, or prefer it to start late, we have 3 funk/groove bands, Night Groove at 7:30p, Burning Abigail at 9p and Stan Jones Band at 11p. Dance, dance, love. $5.
Sunday we have Aden Harrell trio playing a special Valentine's set for the Baby Boogie. THIS is the way to spend Valentine's day with the family.
Sunday night we have a special addition of Salsa too. Could there be a better way to impress your mamacita on Valentine's day than to give her salsa lessons and then sweep her off her feet to a full salsa band? The answer is the same in spanish as english. No. And for $8 it is affordable.
See, we got you covered for the holidays! Oops, what about President's day? Hmm. Oh, okay, we'll do a special open stage this Monday just for the heck of it. Come dressed as your favorite president and host Jay Ryan will give you presidential treatment.
Oh and next Tuesday is national Animal Day and so we have a fundraiser for Table Mountain Animal Shelter with a band called The Mellow Johnnies. Kidding about the holiday. Not kidding about the fundraiser.
And next Friday is another holiday, the 7th anniversary of the D Note w/ Lion Vibes, Greg Harris Vibe Quintet, Desciples, Dozha, Thrill and Slo Children.
Hope you will help us celebrate...ALL OF IT!
Rainbows and unicorns,
D liver
Extra Credit: We often find ourselves trying to remember the following poem by Rumi. We send it out now to all of you, with love.
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
No time to waste. We've got some holidays to hype!
First we have Mardi Gras party this Friday. Couldn't be a better line up, even if you were in New Orleans. Otone Brass Band plays at 7p, $8. Otone Brass Band does New Orleans style originals and they are nothing short of fantastic. Then at 9pm we have The Creole Zydeco Farmers, Louisiana's finest Old Skool band. Just check out the photo of these guys on The Colorado Friends Of Cajun/Zydeco website. $15. There will be lots of beads, lots of dancing, lots of spirit.
Saturday morning at 10:30am we have our first ZUMBA class. This is a new kind of work-out that is dance oriented and super fun. Come help us get the Zumba party started. $8.
Saturday at 5pm-7pm we have Kana Ka Pila, a event which features hawaiin musicians in a traditional jam. FREE. Very romantic date material for Valentine's Day BTW.
Saturday night, in case you don't want the date to end early, or prefer it to start late, we have 3 funk/groove bands, Night Groove at 7:30p, Burning Abigail at 9p and Stan Jones Band at 11p. Dance, dance, love. $5.
Sunday we have Aden Harrell trio playing a special Valentine's set for the Baby Boogie. THIS is the way to spend Valentine's day with the family.
Sunday night we have a special addition of Salsa too. Could there be a better way to impress your mamacita on Valentine's day than to give her salsa lessons and then sweep her off her feet to a full salsa band? The answer is the same in spanish as english. No. And for $8 it is affordable.
See, we got you covered for the holidays! Oops, what about President's day? Hmm. Oh, okay, we'll do a special open stage this Monday just for the heck of it. Come dressed as your favorite president and host Jay Ryan will give you presidential treatment.
Oh and next Tuesday is national Animal Day and so we have a fundraiser for Table Mountain Animal Shelter with a band called The Mellow Johnnies. Kidding about the holiday. Not kidding about the fundraiser.
And next Friday is another holiday, the 7th anniversary of the D Note w/ Lion Vibes, Greg Harris Vibe Quintet, Desciples, Dozha, Thrill and Slo Children.
Hope you will help us celebrate...ALL OF IT!
Rainbows and unicorns,
D liver
Extra Credit: We often find ourselves trying to remember the following poem by Rumi. We send it out now to all of you, with love.
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
2/4/10
D Forest,
As many of you know by now, J.D. Salinger left the planet last week. One of the greatest literary characters of all time is Salinger's poet Seymour Glass. The name can be heard as a directive, "See more glass." The directive is ambiguous. Is the glass a mirror? Or does the glass refer to a window? The world beyond the glass is implied, but it is the glass itself, the medium, we are being directed to notice more closely. The name is a koan, a riddle, a kind of miniature poem, and we invoke it by raising our glass in farewell to the great writer.
Then let us party. We can start with the progressive jazz of the John Lake Ensemble at 9pm tonight, Feb 4, after trivia. $5.
Friday night we start with an art opening for Robin Munro. The show is already up and it's a doozy. Come meet the man behind the art while DJ Sneakypants spins a set. At 8pm we have a night of indie rock with King For a Day, New Ben Franklins and Dave Boylan Band. $5.
Saturday starting early we have Arvada's ninth annual Chocolate Affair 11am-3p. This event, presented by the Arvada Festivals Commission and Historic Olde Town Arvada Association, features the Chocolate Therapist, Julie Pech, a Taste of Chocolate, the Chocolate Treasure Hunt, a Creative Chocolate Cookie Contest, and giant Lamp Post Hearts all over town. Calorie-craving chocolate lovers can sample chocolate-based food and drink presented by several invited chocolatiers, bakers, and restaurants. Get one ticket for $1.00 or six tickets for $5.00 and taste deliciously presented samples. Benefits the Arvada Ralston House. What's not to love?
At 3pm we have West Arvada Dog Park concert and benefit with the Jeffco Brass Band at 3:30p and Open Range at 4:30p. $2 cover or $5 per family. Silent auction with over 100 items.
At 6:30p we begin a benefit for Birambye International (Windpower for Rwandan Orphans) w/ Thriller Dance Lesson at 7:30p TAUGHT BY DANCER FROM ORIGINAL THRILLER VIDEO! Also performances by Willows, Earmark Saints, Sons of the Addicted. $10 suggested donation. This is a really cool, forward-thinking organization. Check out their website.
Sunday we have a Special Super Bowl Baby Boogie. Bring the kids to boogie and enjoy the game. $1 off drafts for parents and special Pigskin Pizza Pie for the kids.
Next Saturday at 10am we begin ZUMBA, a dance based work-out that is fun and addictive. $8.
Among D trees,
D fir
Extra Credit: Last week we had 4 translations of Mallarme's poem Petit Air along with the original French version. We put out a call for a new translation and Jax Delaguerre took up the challenge. This version may lose some of the evocative syntactic slipperiness of the original, but gains accessibility and more than a touch of the personal.
Petit Air
A lonely spot,
No swan, no dock,
As jaded as my own
Disinterest.
Here the morning glory
Grows above my reach
Freckled by the heavens
With all the golds of sunset.
Langourous as linen falling
From my love's disrobing
The firebird soars warbling
To a perch just past my shoulder.
It all washes over me suddenly,
Your delight in your nakedness.
As many of you know by now, J.D. Salinger left the planet last week. One of the greatest literary characters of all time is Salinger's poet Seymour Glass. The name can be heard as a directive, "See more glass." The directive is ambiguous. Is the glass a mirror? Or does the glass refer to a window? The world beyond the glass is implied, but it is the glass itself, the medium, we are being directed to notice more closely. The name is a koan, a riddle, a kind of miniature poem, and we invoke it by raising our glass in farewell to the great writer.
Then let us party. We can start with the progressive jazz of the John Lake Ensemble at 9pm tonight, Feb 4, after trivia. $5.
Friday night we start with an art opening for Robin Munro. The show is already up and it's a doozy. Come meet the man behind the art while DJ Sneakypants spins a set. At 8pm we have a night of indie rock with King For a Day, New Ben Franklins and Dave Boylan Band. $5.
Saturday starting early we have Arvada's ninth annual Chocolate Affair 11am-3p. This event, presented by the Arvada Festivals Commission and Historic Olde Town Arvada Association, features the Chocolate Therapist, Julie Pech, a Taste of Chocolate, the Chocolate Treasure Hunt, a Creative Chocolate Cookie Contest, and giant Lamp Post Hearts all over town. Calorie-craving chocolate lovers can sample chocolate-based food and drink presented by several invited chocolatiers, bakers, and restaurants. Get one ticket for $1.00 or six tickets for $5.00 and taste deliciously presented samples. Benefits the Arvada Ralston House. What's not to love?
At 3pm we have West Arvada Dog Park concert and benefit with the Jeffco Brass Band at 3:30p and Open Range at 4:30p. $2 cover or $5 per family. Silent auction with over 100 items.
At 6:30p we begin a benefit for Birambye International (Windpower for Rwandan Orphans) w/ Thriller Dance Lesson at 7:30p TAUGHT BY DANCER FROM ORIGINAL THRILLER VIDEO! Also performances by Willows, Earmark Saints, Sons of the Addicted. $10 suggested donation. This is a really cool, forward-thinking organization. Check out their website.
Sunday we have a Special Super Bowl Baby Boogie. Bring the kids to boogie and enjoy the game. $1 off drafts for parents and special Pigskin Pizza Pie for the kids.
Next Saturday at 10am we begin ZUMBA, a dance based work-out that is fun and addictive. $8.
Among D trees,
D fir
Extra Credit: Last week we had 4 translations of Mallarme's poem Petit Air along with the original French version. We put out a call for a new translation and Jax Delaguerre took up the challenge. This version may lose some of the evocative syntactic slipperiness of the original, but gains accessibility and more than a touch of the personal.
Petit Air
A lonely spot,
No swan, no dock,
As jaded as my own
Disinterest.
Here the morning glory
Grows above my reach
Freckled by the heavens
With all the golds of sunset.
Langourous as linen falling
From my love's disrobing
The firebird soars warbling
To a perch just past my shoulder.
It all washes over me suddenly,
Your delight in your nakedness.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
1/21/10
D bockels,
It's funny. We don't miss it. And yet we wouldn't have missed it for the world. What are we talking about? We couldn't say. Only you know for sure.
We can only tell you we are not talking about Something Underground with Wendy Woo and Angie Stevens tomorrow night, Friday Jan. 22, at the D Note, because we haven't missed that yet. We hope you won't either. Something Underground is not only a super talented, freewheeling band of brothers, but also a central axis along the deep, wide grid of local Colorado music. They bring that energy to their shows, especially when they play the D Note. This one will be no exception. Wendy Woo, as many of you know, writes and performs beautifully and you can bet she and the SU will be sitting in with each other. We've also been informed Angie Stevens will be jumping in the mix too. Wendy plays at 8 and SU will start around 10. $7, Alex Boyd opens the night with his precocious Old Age music at 6pm.
Saturday day at 2pm Stone Brewery (yum!) is having a beer tasting for the beer club. If you wanna join the club come on by. You can get details here.
Saturday at 7pm we have Illuminate 2010 - Winter BellyDance Gala! BellyDance Show and Hafla with Phoenix & Yallah! $6 Adults and $5 for kids under 10. These are always filled to the brim so come early to get a seat. After the Hafla, at 10pm we have the return of Pawn Ticket Trio, a fantastic horn-driven lounge band that does covers of everything from Abba to Zappa. $5.
Tonight, Thursday, Jan. 21, after trivia, at 9p, we have a couple cool bands from Boulder, Portal and Free Radt. Portal has shades of both Tool and Portishead, if you can imagine that combo, with lots of interesting time changes and a little bit of freak out. $5.
Heads up. Starting Feb. 13 we'll have ZUMBA classes at the D Note Saturdays 10:30 - 11:30 with Dia. $8. All levels and ages welcome. ZUMBA fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a fun work out.
Love to see you soonest,
D scribe
Extra Credit: Picked up a poetry newspaper last time we were in NY called The Boog Reader. Found this poem by NY poet Mark Statman among the detritus.
Please Read This
that's how the page started
no salutation
no dear or hello or
I was thinking of you
just
please read this
but then there was no more
a blank paper page
that on a computer
would have been
an empty screen
a sky
would have been cloudless
at the movies
there'd have been no movie
how do you explain disappeared urgency
how do you explain
what doesn't follow
it seemed terrible
yet something to have been expected--
surf sounds, wind sounds,
what makes worldlessness so painful
and so normal
the word please
it covers it all
we can explain the absent this
explain what can't be read
but not the please
we can explain
so much of everything
but not please
not here
It's funny. We don't miss it. And yet we wouldn't have missed it for the world. What are we talking about? We couldn't say. Only you know for sure.
We can only tell you we are not talking about Something Underground with Wendy Woo and Angie Stevens tomorrow night, Friday Jan. 22, at the D Note, because we haven't missed that yet. We hope you won't either. Something Underground is not only a super talented, freewheeling band of brothers, but also a central axis along the deep, wide grid of local Colorado music. They bring that energy to their shows, especially when they play the D Note. This one will be no exception. Wendy Woo, as many of you know, writes and performs beautifully and you can bet she and the SU will be sitting in with each other. We've also been informed Angie Stevens will be jumping in the mix too. Wendy plays at 8 and SU will start around 10. $7, Alex Boyd opens the night with his precocious Old Age music at 6pm.
Saturday day at 2pm Stone Brewery (yum!) is having a beer tasting for the beer club. If you wanna join the club come on by. You can get details here.
Saturday at 7pm we have Illuminate 2010 - Winter BellyDance Gala! BellyDance Show and Hafla with Phoenix & Yallah! $6 Adults and $5 for kids under 10. These are always filled to the brim so come early to get a seat. After the Hafla, at 10pm we have the return of Pawn Ticket Trio, a fantastic horn-driven lounge band that does covers of everything from Abba to Zappa. $5.
Tonight, Thursday, Jan. 21, after trivia, at 9p, we have a couple cool bands from Boulder, Portal and Free Radt. Portal has shades of both Tool and Portishead, if you can imagine that combo, with lots of interesting time changes and a little bit of freak out. $5.
Heads up. Starting Feb. 13 we'll have ZUMBA classes at the D Note Saturdays 10:30 - 11:30 with Dia. $8. All levels and ages welcome. ZUMBA fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a fun work out.
Love to see you soonest,
D scribe
Extra Credit: Picked up a poetry newspaper last time we were in NY called The Boog Reader. Found this poem by NY poet Mark Statman among the detritus.
Please Read This
that's how the page started
no salutation
no dear or hello or
I was thinking of you
just
please read this
but then there was no more
a blank paper page
that on a computer
would have been
an empty screen
a sky
would have been cloudless
at the movies
there'd have been no movie
how do you explain disappeared urgency
how do you explain
what doesn't follow
it seemed terrible
yet something to have been expected--
surf sounds, wind sounds,
what makes worldlessness so painful
and so normal
the word please
it covers it all
we can explain the absent this
explain what can't be read
but not the please
we can explain
so much of everything
but not please
not here
Thursday, January 14, 2010
1/14/10
D baters
Hope everyone out there reading this is good. Or is it more grammatically correct to say we hope you are well? Guess what? They are both grammatically correct. See tricky grammatical details here. It is wonderful to have the choice. "Good" and "well" are different, no? You can be good even if you are unwell. You can be well even if you are not good. It's all well and good and we sincerely hope you are both good and well.
Friday night, 1/15, there is an eclectic and fun line up. First you should check the award-winning Bauhaus style poster Matt Dougherty did for this show here. Then you should come check out the show. FTP, a new band helmed by Steve Werges, plays at 6:30p, then The Way Low Down at 8:30p. There should be a better term for these sorts of neo-folky bands that Colorado is so full of. This one features mandolin, banjo and fiddle and the crowd loved them last time they played the D Note. Around 9:30p, Brent Loveday, from Reno Divorce, brings his band back for some rollicking country punk ballads. Check out Loveday's fantastic "Cemetary Song" on his myspace. Batting clean up at 11p is Hot Damn and The Hell Yeahs. This is another of those neo-folk type bands hard to pin down, with a sort of rag tag Tom Waits sound. The way they describe themselves is "A lumberjack orchestra, pirate romper stomper, toodaloo and tralala, a four man tuba player, if the mountains were smart enough to make music, a mariachi band in a whale's stomache, the sound of suspenders being slapped on a large man's chest."
Saturday at 4pm we have a special edition of the The Music Train Family Concert series, featuring Kutandara, a marimba ensemble utilizing a variety of instruments, songs, and dances from around the world. Primary inspiration and influence comes from the Shona peoples of southern Africa. $7 adults/$3 kids
Saturday night starting at 8pm we have an indie/experimental show with a psychedelic trip hop band called The Good Grime Sound System. They are playing with Malt Thizney and Pure Crates. $5. Cool school.
Next Friday, Something Underground and Wendy Woo.
Exit, stage left,
D fenestrater
Extra Credit: Our friend Anselm Berrigan recently published a book on City Lights called Free Cell. We are slowly making our way through the intensive density of the words. Most of the poems in the book are all called "Have a Good One". Here are a couple.
Have a Good One
Fathom cost by merit
of vainly wracked advances
to light takedown's mist.
Keeping under wrapped pace with
market forces' multi-orbital yet
self-revolving mis-circulation
of service's inference. You will
have more or less money at less
value in the near future. Ideas?
Have a Good One
Non-identification has its rewards.
Hey dude. In the sightless ocean
deep, red-colored shrimp can't
see red. Other creatures that
emit red light dine well at
the expense of such weakness.
Have a Good One
only through porous antique
gestures of will can our love
be truly maintained as the set
of administrative functions we
require it to be, so as to weave
and burn with philanthropic glee
Hope everyone out there reading this is good. Or is it more grammatically correct to say we hope you are well? Guess what? They are both grammatically correct. See tricky grammatical details here. It is wonderful to have the choice. "Good" and "well" are different, no? You can be good even if you are unwell. You can be well even if you are not good. It's all well and good and we sincerely hope you are both good and well.
Friday night, 1/15, there is an eclectic and fun line up. First you should check the award-winning Bauhaus style poster Matt Dougherty did for this show here. Then you should come check out the show. FTP, a new band helmed by Steve Werges, plays at 6:30p, then The Way Low Down at 8:30p. There should be a better term for these sorts of neo-folky bands that Colorado is so full of. This one features mandolin, banjo and fiddle and the crowd loved them last time they played the D Note. Around 9:30p, Brent Loveday, from Reno Divorce, brings his band back for some rollicking country punk ballads. Check out Loveday's fantastic "Cemetary Song" on his myspace. Batting clean up at 11p is Hot Damn and The Hell Yeahs. This is another of those neo-folk type bands hard to pin down, with a sort of rag tag Tom Waits sound. The way they describe themselves is "A lumberjack orchestra, pirate romper stomper, toodaloo and tralala, a four man tuba player, if the mountains were smart enough to make music, a mariachi band in a whale's stomache, the sound of suspenders being slapped on a large man's chest."
Saturday at 4pm we have a special edition of the The Music Train Family Concert series, featuring Kutandara, a marimba ensemble utilizing a variety of instruments, songs, and dances from around the world. Primary inspiration and influence comes from the Shona peoples of southern Africa. $7 adults/$3 kids
Saturday night starting at 8pm we have an indie/experimental show with a psychedelic trip hop band called The Good Grime Sound System. They are playing with Malt Thizney and Pure Crates. $5. Cool school.
Next Friday, Something Underground and Wendy Woo.
Exit, stage left,
D fenestrater
Extra Credit: Our friend Anselm Berrigan recently published a book on City Lights called Free Cell. We are slowly making our way through the intensive density of the words. Most of the poems in the book are all called "Have a Good One". Here are a couple.
Have a Good One
Fathom cost by merit
of vainly wracked advances
to light takedown's mist.
Keeping under wrapped pace with
market forces' multi-orbital yet
self-revolving mis-circulation
of service's inference. You will
have more or less money at less
value in the near future. Ideas?
Have a Good One
Non-identification has its rewards.
Hey dude. In the sightless ocean
deep, red-colored shrimp can't
see red. Other creatures that
emit red light dine well at
the expense of such weakness.
Have a Good One
only through porous antique
gestures of will can our love
be truly maintained as the set
of administrative functions we
require it to be, so as to weave
and burn with philanthropic glee
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