D Vourers
Our favorite holiday is upon us. Diandra D and Adam Ferrill have turned the D Note into a space ship and we are ready to take off.
Friday night we have a really big shew for you. At 5pm Alex Boyd, then at 7pm Slo Children doing an all Halloween song set. Slo Children consists of D Noters Adam and Jeremy DeGraff, Adam Ferrill, Jax Delaguerre and Alejandro Castano. Then at 8pm Dave Preston and Sam Gathman, followed by Something Underground, with Meniskus batting line up. Meniskus rocked our socks off last time they were in the D Note. People are still talking about it. And Something Underground are always awesome too. We love those guys. Check out the wicked video "poster" by Jim Krzyzaniak here. $8
Saturday at 1pm we have a garage band music recital by Music Lessons Of Westminster ($5). Then at 4pm we have Sentimental Sounds Big Band. Free! And finally at 8pm we have the return by popular demand of Angus Mohr playing their annual Halloween Show and Samhain (highland rock and roll w/ bagpipes) $10.
Sunday we have our 8th annual salsaween. There will be special performances and, as always, a killer costume contest with cash prizes. W/ DJ Louis. $6.
Monday night, actual Halloween night, we have our open stage, and you get extra points for coming in costume and/or performing halloween songs.
Could we do Halloween any bigger or better? We don't think so.
Next Tuesday is another chance to see a big jazz band, w/ Serenade In Blue at 7:30pm.
Around the corner, on Nov 12, is our 3rd annual Beard And Mustache Showdown and beer tasting w/ Oakhurst, Acoustic Mining and Wonderlic. So start working on your beards now. Competition is going to be fierce this year. Q. What do you get when you add the D to Beer? A. Beerd
Yours,
D notary
Extra Credit: How about the lyrics to a Slo Children song?
Wildwood Holler
Way up in the Wildwood Holler
face to face with my killer
He raised his voice
He raised his fist
I raised my glass
I said here's to you
Here's to me
Here's to us
Now kick my ass
Way up in the Wildwood Holler
face to face with my killer
He raised his sun
I raised my moon
He raised the knife
I raised the spoon
He raised the gun
I put the flower in
Come on now and let's begin
Lightning bolt, lightning bolt
lightning bolt and thunderclap
I had to laugh
Way up in the wild blue yonder
face to face with my creator
He raised the sky
I raised the balloon
He raised the bar
I raised the saloon
He raised the morning
I raised at noon
He raised the evening
I raised my gin
Come on now and let's begin
Lightning bolt, lightning bolt
lightning bolt and thunderclap
I had to laugh
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
D Note love letter 10/20/11
D particles,
So much going on. Let's dive in. Ready?
Tonight, after Trivia, Kingman Brewster (hip hop) 9pm, followed by The Gaia Experiment 10pm, followed by Antioquia from San Francisco (psychedelic rock) 11pm. $5. Yes, it will be a late Thur night chock full of beauty!
Tomorrow, Friday Oct 21, we'll have Jamie Lynn performing for dinner hours 5-6:30p. Then we'll have a Flamenco show at 7pm. This will be a "tablao" style show feat. Vincent Chavez, Guitar, Mark Herzog, Cante, Natalia Perez del Villar & her cuadro dancing $12. Recommend getting there early for a seat.
At 9pm Friday we'll have The Old Stage Renegades (gypsy folk rock), and at 11pm we'll have August On The Equator (experimental jazz and hip hop). $5.
Saturday at noon Rockin Raven presents Colorado Vocal Prodigy Contest (18 and under). Benefit for Hope Haven.
At 7pm we have our annual halloween Haflaween, a belly dance spooktacular presented by Phoenix, w/ performances, games, live music from Yallah! and more. Always a blast! $8 adults, $5 kids.
Speaking of halloween we have some great shows next weekend too. First we have Something Underground, Meniskus, Dave Preston and Slo Children next Friday, 10/28. CHECK OUT the awesome promo video for this night here! Saturday night we'll have Angus Mohr in back in the house for a Samhain halloween show. Then the 30th we'll have our 8th annual Salsaween, with a cash prize costume contest.
Also come in and check out the new halloweenish art work by Blk Mtl, Matt Dougherty, Adam Ferrell and Diandra D.
Exeunt,
D scripter
Extra Credit: Here's a poem by Vera Pavlova we were struck by, found on the Poetry Foundation website.
To converse with the greats
To converse with the greats
by trying their blindfolds on;
to correspond with books
by rewriting them;
to edit holy edicts,
and at the midnight hour
to talk with the clock by tapping a wall
in the solitary confinement of the universe.
So much going on. Let's dive in. Ready?
Tonight, after Trivia, Kingman Brewster (hip hop) 9pm, followed by The Gaia Experiment 10pm, followed by Antioquia from San Francisco (psychedelic rock) 11pm. $5. Yes, it will be a late Thur night chock full of beauty!
Tomorrow, Friday Oct 21, we'll have Jamie Lynn performing for dinner hours 5-6:30p. Then we'll have a Flamenco show at 7pm. This will be a "tablao" style show feat. Vincent Chavez, Guitar, Mark Herzog, Cante, Natalia Perez del Villar & her cuadro dancing $12. Recommend getting there early for a seat.
At 9pm Friday we'll have The Old Stage Renegades (gypsy folk rock), and at 11pm we'll have August On The Equator (experimental jazz and hip hop). $5.
Saturday at noon Rockin Raven presents Colorado Vocal Prodigy Contest (18 and under). Benefit for Hope Haven.
At 7pm we have our annual halloween Haflaween, a belly dance spooktacular presented by Phoenix, w/ performances, games, live music from Yallah! and more. Always a blast! $8 adults, $5 kids.
Speaking of halloween we have some great shows next weekend too. First we have Something Underground, Meniskus, Dave Preston and Slo Children next Friday, 10/28. CHECK OUT the awesome promo video for this night here! Saturday night we'll have Angus Mohr in back in the house for a Samhain halloween show. Then the 30th we'll have our 8th annual Salsaween, with a cash prize costume contest.
Also come in and check out the new halloweenish art work by Blk Mtl, Matt Dougherty, Adam Ferrell and Diandra D.
Exeunt,
D scripter
Extra Credit: Here's a poem by Vera Pavlova we were struck by, found on the Poetry Foundation website.
To converse with the greats
To converse with the greats
by trying their blindfolds on;
to correspond with books
by rewriting them;
to edit holy edicts,
and at the midnight hour
to talk with the clock by tapping a wall
in the solitary confinement of the universe.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Love letter 10/13/11
D tocks
How, hi are you?
Tomorrow night, Friday Oct 14, at 7pm we enter into the magic land of the Beatles with the tribute band The 3eatles. This will be the third visit by this band to the D Note. It has been a blast the last few times and we expect the same this time. Goo goo G'joob. $7. After The 3eatles at 9pm we have the Idlewhile band. Hillbilly swagger with a touch of Bauhaus. Driving music. $5
Saturday at 4pm we have a Music Train Family Concert w/ The blue Canyon Boys. We've had this band in the D Note before and they are great. The whole family will dig. $7/$3 kids.
At 7pm Saturday we have our friends The Duke Street Kings rocking out to the classics. Bring your dancing shoes. At 9pm we have a CD release for Squidlick, a hard rocking band worth checking out. And we end the night with Between Fate, slinging melodic grunge a la Foo Fighters. $5.
Yoga on sunday at 10am is calling your name. Salsa on Sunday night will be beautiful too.
We've got a flamenco show next Friday. A halloween themed belly dance extravaganza next Saturday. Then the following week we have Something Underground, Meniskus, Slo Children and Angus Mohr coming your way.
Factually,
D Facto
Extra Credit: All talk is slippery. So let us have a poem by Elisabeth Frost.
Happiness
Again I'm trying to explain how all talk is slippery.
See, I might want to convey one thing—frustration, say—
but all that gets conveyed is some other thing—rage—my hand
coming fast, erratic, menacing.
Who can say how a thing in words turns and flowers like that?
It happens.
Now say I want to say to you happiness.
No motive. Nothing behind it.
Just the awareness of a valve suddenly opened and—
happiness!
It's in the lungs, the bones.
But somehow all you hear is I don't need you.
We're in this room, and you're not hearing
how I'm still trying to say this thing to you.
I'll say it again. Here. Happiness.
How, hi are you?
Tomorrow night, Friday Oct 14, at 7pm we enter into the magic land of the Beatles with the tribute band The 3eatles. This will be the third visit by this band to the D Note. It has been a blast the last few times and we expect the same this time. Goo goo G'joob. $7. After The 3eatles at 9pm we have the Idlewhile band. Hillbilly swagger with a touch of Bauhaus. Driving music. $5
Saturday at 4pm we have a Music Train Family Concert w/ The blue Canyon Boys. We've had this band in the D Note before and they are great. The whole family will dig. $7/$3 kids.
At 7pm Saturday we have our friends The Duke Street Kings rocking out to the classics. Bring your dancing shoes. At 9pm we have a CD release for Squidlick, a hard rocking band worth checking out. And we end the night with Between Fate, slinging melodic grunge a la Foo Fighters. $5.
Yoga on sunday at 10am is calling your name. Salsa on Sunday night will be beautiful too.
We've got a flamenco show next Friday. A halloween themed belly dance extravaganza next Saturday. Then the following week we have Something Underground, Meniskus, Slo Children and Angus Mohr coming your way.
Factually,
D Facto
Extra Credit: All talk is slippery. So let us have a poem by Elisabeth Frost.
Happiness
Again I'm trying to explain how all talk is slippery.
See, I might want to convey one thing—frustration, say—
but all that gets conveyed is some other thing—rage—my hand
coming fast, erratic, menacing.
Who can say how a thing in words turns and flowers like that?
It happens.
Now say I want to say to you happiness.
No motive. Nothing behind it.
Just the awareness of a valve suddenly opened and—
happiness!
It's in the lungs, the bones.
But somehow all you hear is I don't need you.
We're in this room, and you're not hearing
how I'm still trying to say this thing to you.
I'll say it again. Here. Happiness.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
D Note love letter 10/6/11
D coy,
October is pretty much the D Note's favorite month. Diandra always transforms the place for halloween festivities. This year she is turning it into a spaceship with plenty of aliens on board. Come watch the transformation happen...
Tonight after Geeks Who Drink Trivia we have Martin Gilmore's picking circle. If you are a picker, or just a grinner, come on down, always a good time.
Tomorrow night we start with Jeff Lambert and JC McKim playing acoustic at 5pm. Then at 7:30p we have Roscoe's Dusty Bottle Boxcar Band, an excellent jug band helmed by Bret Sloan. At 9pm we have Quillion and Mechanical Dan trading sets for the rest of the night. Rock and roll. Quillion and Mechanical Dan are made up of good friends of the D Note and it is always special to us to have them in. $5
Saturday is a full one starting with Zumba at 10:30am. Then we have a drum recital with ProDrum at noon. Free. At 5pm we have our fourth annual benefit for Friendship Bridge, an organization that helps secure micro-loans for Guatemalan women. Clusterfunk will be providing the tunes. There will be a silent auction too. $10 suggested donation. Then at 9pm our friends at Velcro City Records will throwing a dance party. Free. Check out the beautiful flyer for this event here.
Yoga Sunday morning, then mello cello brunch, then baby boogie, then salsa. Have you ever tried a salsa lesson? It is easy to begin and quite addictive. Way more fun than a rollercoaster ride. Vow that this week will be the week you finally try it.
Next Tuesday there is a big band show with Bob's Big Band at 7pm. Then we have a special rock and roll show with Goldenboy at 9pm. Goldenboy has a very impressive resume having formerly played guitar for The Eels, The Rentals, Neil Finn and Elliot Smith! $5
Next Friday we have the return of the 3eatles, a super fun Beatles cover band.
For the rest of the scoop check out www.dnote.us
Hope to see you soon, wink wink
Coy D
Extra Credit: Speaking of Coy, here's one of the great poems of all time, by 17th century poet Andrew Marvell
To his Coy Mistress
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
October is pretty much the D Note's favorite month. Diandra always transforms the place for halloween festivities. This year she is turning it into a spaceship with plenty of aliens on board. Come watch the transformation happen...
Tonight after Geeks Who Drink Trivia we have Martin Gilmore's picking circle. If you are a picker, or just a grinner, come on down, always a good time.
Tomorrow night we start with Jeff Lambert and JC McKim playing acoustic at 5pm. Then at 7:30p we have Roscoe's Dusty Bottle Boxcar Band, an excellent jug band helmed by Bret Sloan. At 9pm we have Quillion and Mechanical Dan trading sets for the rest of the night. Rock and roll. Quillion and Mechanical Dan are made up of good friends of the D Note and it is always special to us to have them in. $5
Saturday is a full one starting with Zumba at 10:30am. Then we have a drum recital with ProDrum at noon. Free. At 5pm we have our fourth annual benefit for Friendship Bridge, an organization that helps secure micro-loans for Guatemalan women. Clusterfunk will be providing the tunes. There will be a silent auction too. $10 suggested donation. Then at 9pm our friends at Velcro City Records will throwing a dance party. Free. Check out the beautiful flyer for this event here.
Yoga Sunday morning, then mello cello brunch, then baby boogie, then salsa. Have you ever tried a salsa lesson? It is easy to begin and quite addictive. Way more fun than a rollercoaster ride. Vow that this week will be the week you finally try it.
Next Tuesday there is a big band show with Bob's Big Band at 7pm. Then we have a special rock and roll show with Goldenboy at 9pm. Goldenboy has a very impressive resume having formerly played guitar for The Eels, The Rentals, Neil Finn and Elliot Smith! $5
Next Friday we have the return of the 3eatles, a super fun Beatles cover band.
For the rest of the scoop check out www.dnote.us
Hope to see you soon, wink wink
Coy D
Extra Credit: Speaking of Coy, here's one of the great poems of all time, by 17th century poet Andrew Marvell
To his Coy Mistress
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Love letter 9/29/11
Dear Major D,
The key of D Major is well-suited to violin music because of the structure of the instrument, which is tuned G D A E. The open strings resonate sympathetically with the D string, producing a sound that is especially brilliant.
Tonight, Thursday 9/29, after Geeks Who Drink Trivia (so much fun) we have latin hip hop of Indigenous Peoples and Flowetry In Motion. If you are not already, get into it. $5.
Friday at 5pm we have Dustin Morriss playing. Free. Then we have the dance happy classic rock of PJ Zahn at 7p and then the blues rock of Big Muddy at 9pm. $5
Saturday night at 6:30 we have our annual benefit for Denver Family Institute w/ music by Clusterfunk (classic rock/dance). This organization always has a fantastic silent auction too. $10 suggested donation. Have fun and help out at the same time.
Yours,
Private D
Extra Credit: Here's yet another attempt at our own translation of French poet Stephane Mallarme's impossible to translate poem, Petit Air.
Little Air (in D Major)
Any solitude
(without dock or swan)
mirrors its disuse
in my gaze withdrawn
from vanity
too high to be held
the sky streaked
with sunset's gold
but lazily skirts off
like white linen doffed
a fleeting white bird
in exultation dives
into the wave come to life
your naked joy
The key of D Major is well-suited to violin music because of the structure of the instrument, which is tuned G D A E. The open strings resonate sympathetically with the D string, producing a sound that is especially brilliant.
Tonight, Thursday 9/29, after Geeks Who Drink Trivia (so much fun) we have latin hip hop of Indigenous Peoples and Flowetry In Motion. If you are not already, get into it. $5.
Friday at 5pm we have Dustin Morriss playing. Free. Then we have the dance happy classic rock of PJ Zahn at 7p and then the blues rock of Big Muddy at 9pm. $5
Saturday night at 6:30 we have our annual benefit for Denver Family Institute w/ music by Clusterfunk (classic rock/dance). This organization always has a fantastic silent auction too. $10 suggested donation. Have fun and help out at the same time.
Yours,
Private D
Extra Credit: Here's yet another attempt at our own translation of French poet Stephane Mallarme's impossible to translate poem, Petit Air.
Little Air (in D Major)
Any solitude
(without dock or swan)
mirrors its disuse
in my gaze withdrawn
from vanity
too high to be held
the sky streaked
with sunset's gold
but lazily skirts off
like white linen doffed
a fleeting white bird
in exultation dives
into the wave come to life
your naked joy
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Re:
Re is usually an abbreviation for "regarding", and this is also true in the case above. But, since we always lead off with some variation on the "D"... it is also the name of the note D in the solfege system. "Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi." Woody Guthrie.
So, fa, la, tonight, Thursday, 9/22, after the hilarious good time trivia with Geeks Who Drink, at 6:30p, we have a DJ in the house, a genre bending DJ known as Aphonix. If you are into that, then come support a brother. 21+ free, under $5.
Tomorrow night, Friday, 9/23, we have a very cool line up. Starts out with Diet Folk at 5pm. Diet Folk's bio says "imagine Amos Lee leading Old Crow Medicine Show, Ray Lamagntane sharing a stage with the Avett Brothers, or Bon Iver and the Del McCoury band birthing a wild americana/bluegrass love child." After Diet Folk at 7pm is The West. The West is made up of local players we have long known and loved. 2 of the players used to be in The Reals. According to their bio "The West is a Denver-based rock band that has been compared with Spoon, The Smithereens, Elvis Costello, and Tom Petty." Then at 8:30 we have Firebird 4000 Project. According to their bio, "Influenced by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Braid." Finally at 9:30p we have Offcolor, very tasty indie rock. Check out the poster for the show here. $5
Saturday at 1pm we have a poetry reading. We will be taking part 100thousand Poets For Change, the largest international poetry reading in history, Arvada chapter. There will be several featured readers, including Piper Mullins, D. Brooks, Ian Dougherty, Claire Connolly, Peter Aquino, Adam Degraff, Mary McDonough, Miranda McGuire, Kate Schilling, and more. Free.
At 4pm Saturday we have a swing dance lesson followed by the big band jazz of Serenade In Blue. At 7pm we have a salsa dance/ fundraiser for Addison Kleinhans. Addison is an awesome 7 year old with acute lymphoblastic Leukemia. We're really hoping to raise a bunch of funds to help this family and hope to see you there. $10 suggested donation.
There's a couple of cool bands playing next Tuesday too. High 20 (ska, reggae) at 8pm and Back To The Woods (Funk-Folk-Reggae-Acid-Jazz-Swing-Bluegrass) at 9pm. Free.
Awesome weekend! And we didn't even mention Zumba, Yoga, Baby Boogie or Sunday night salsa, which you can find out about at dnote.us
Yours,
La Re
Extra Credit: Somethings just have the spirit of poetry, even if they might not strictly be poetry (whatever strictly poetry means). So here's a found poem for you. You have to watch the youtube video for full effect. Thanks to Brice Hobbs for sending. See video here.
Reality Hits You Hard Bro
Well, I was just driving down Northern Avenue
I was just minding my own business.
And all of a sudden
BAM!
It hit me hard from the back!
FOOM!
The fire was everywhere!
FOOM FOOM!
Blowin' up, made a big loud noise like
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
I was like - OH!
The fire was arcing like a rainbow
SHEWW!
A little spark jumped up and I was like
WHOA!
Totally out of the blue.
Reality hits you hard, bro!
Re is usually an abbreviation for "regarding", and this is also true in the case above. But, since we always lead off with some variation on the "D"... it is also the name of the note D in the solfege system. "Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi." Woody Guthrie.
So, fa, la, tonight, Thursday, 9/22, after the hilarious good time trivia with Geeks Who Drink, at 6:30p, we have a DJ in the house, a genre bending DJ known as Aphonix. If you are into that, then come support a brother. 21+ free, under $5.
Tomorrow night, Friday, 9/23, we have a very cool line up. Starts out with Diet Folk at 5pm. Diet Folk's bio says "imagine Amos Lee leading Old Crow Medicine Show, Ray Lamagntane sharing a stage with the Avett Brothers, or Bon Iver and the Del McCoury band birthing a wild americana/bluegrass love child." After Diet Folk at 7pm is The West. The West is made up of local players we have long known and loved. 2 of the players used to be in The Reals. According to their bio "The West is a Denver-based rock band that has been compared with Spoon, The Smithereens, Elvis Costello, and Tom Petty." Then at 8:30 we have Firebird 4000 Project. According to their bio, "Influenced by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Braid." Finally at 9:30p we have Offcolor, very tasty indie rock. Check out the poster for the show here. $5
Saturday at 1pm we have a poetry reading. We will be taking part 100thousand Poets For Change, the largest international poetry reading in history, Arvada chapter. There will be several featured readers, including Piper Mullins, D. Brooks, Ian Dougherty, Claire Connolly, Peter Aquino, Adam Degraff, Mary McDonough, Miranda McGuire, Kate Schilling, and more. Free.
At 4pm Saturday we have a swing dance lesson followed by the big band jazz of Serenade In Blue. At 7pm we have a salsa dance/ fundraiser for Addison Kleinhans. Addison is an awesome 7 year old with acute lymphoblastic Leukemia. We're really hoping to raise a bunch of funds to help this family and hope to see you there. $10 suggested donation.
There's a couple of cool bands playing next Tuesday too. High 20 (ska, reggae) at 8pm and Back To The Woods (Funk-Folk-Reggae-Acid-Jazz-Swing-Bluegrass) at 9pm. Free.
Awesome weekend! And we didn't even mention Zumba, Yoga, Baby Boogie or Sunday night salsa, which you can find out about at dnote.us
Yours,
La Re
Extra Credit: Somethings just have the spirit of poetry, even if they might not strictly be poetry (whatever strictly poetry means). So here's a found poem for you. You have to watch the youtube video for full effect. Thanks to Brice Hobbs for sending. See video here.
Reality Hits You Hard Bro
Well, I was just driving down Northern Avenue
I was just minding my own business.
And all of a sudden
BAM!
It hit me hard from the back!
FOOM!
The fire was everywhere!
FOOM FOOM!
Blowin' up, made a big loud noise like
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
I was like - OH!
The fire was arcing like a rainbow
SHEWW!
A little spark jumped up and I was like
WHOA!
Totally out of the blue.
Reality hits you hard, bro!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
D Note love letter 9/15/11
Alveolar Plosives,
One of the odd side effects of writing this D mail has been thinking far more than normal about the letter D. Today we are thinking about the sound of the letter D. In most languages using the Latin alphabet, D represents the voiced alveolar plosive, but in the Vietnamese alphabet it represents the sound /z/ (pronounced /j/ in the southern variety). In Fijian it represents a prenasalized stop /nd/. In some languages where voiceless unaspirated stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, ‹d› represents an unaspirated /t/, while ‹t› represents an aspirated /tÊ°/. Examples of such languages include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo and the transliteration of Mandarin. Who knew?
This Friday we have Bill McKay from Leftover Salmon playing for free at 5pm. Killer dinner music! Then at 7pm we have the classic rock dance band The Bucktones. This will be followed by the horny funk/ska band In Due Time at 9:30p and then rock band Broken Parts at 11pm. $5.
Saturday we have the season opener of The Music Train Family Concert Series, featuring JT Nolan and friends. JT Nolan is an amazing songwriter and performer and generally has the best players in Denver on board. $7 adults/ $3 kids.
At 7pm we have The Jazz Partners (jazz) followed by Portobello Road (alternative blues rock) at 8pm. Then we have a super uper 3 band show put together by Matt Dougherty; Hellfire and The Mother Dog, Stealth Hippo and Firemouth $5. Great night of music. Check out Dougherty's poster in which he cleverly incorporates all 3 band names into the art here.
Sunday night we have the best salsa night in Denver (so says the authority on such matters, Salsa Central.)
Next Tuesday we have Jay Ryan's Acoustic Showcase w/Jay Ryan, Holly Lovell, Adam Lockwood and T. Strickland. FREE.
For the rest of what's going on check out www.dnote.us
Love to you and yours,
Aspirated Stop
Extra Credit: There was an article about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud in a recent New Yorker. The author Daniel Mendelsohn includes an except from an unnamed poem by Rimbaud that gave us a special feeling and stuck in our memory. Almost a haiku.
I have recovered it.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Matched with the sun.
One of the odd side effects of writing this D mail has been thinking far more than normal about the letter D. Today we are thinking about the sound of the letter D. In most languages using the Latin alphabet, D represents the voiced alveolar plosive, but in the Vietnamese alphabet it represents the sound /z/ (pronounced /j/ in the southern variety). In Fijian it represents a prenasalized stop /nd/. In some languages where voiceless unaspirated stops contrast with voiceless aspirated stops, ‹d› represents an unaspirated /t/, while ‹t› represents an aspirated /tÊ°/. Examples of such languages include Icelandic, Scottish Gaelic, Navajo and the transliteration of Mandarin. Who knew?
This Friday we have Bill McKay from Leftover Salmon playing for free at 5pm. Killer dinner music! Then at 7pm we have the classic rock dance band The Bucktones. This will be followed by the horny funk/ska band In Due Time at 9:30p and then rock band Broken Parts at 11pm. $5.
Saturday we have the season opener of The Music Train Family Concert Series, featuring JT Nolan and friends. JT Nolan is an amazing songwriter and performer and generally has the best players in Denver on board. $7 adults/ $3 kids.
At 7pm we have The Jazz Partners (jazz) followed by Portobello Road (alternative blues rock) at 8pm. Then we have a super uper 3 band show put together by Matt Dougherty; Hellfire and The Mother Dog, Stealth Hippo and Firemouth $5. Great night of music. Check out Dougherty's poster in which he cleverly incorporates all 3 band names into the art here.
Sunday night we have the best salsa night in Denver (so says the authority on such matters, Salsa Central.)
Next Tuesday we have Jay Ryan's Acoustic Showcase w/Jay Ryan, Holly Lovell, Adam Lockwood and T. Strickland. FREE.
For the rest of what's going on check out www.dnote.us
Love to you and yours,
Aspirated Stop
Extra Credit: There was an article about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud in a recent New Yorker. The author Daniel Mendelsohn includes an except from an unnamed poem by Rimbaud that gave us a special feeling and stuck in our memory. Almost a haiku.
I have recovered it.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Matched with the sun.
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