By bluerasberry on 2023-02-10
Chinchilla Café is a concert venue, community center, and animal coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Robin Brown, Gabriela Toledo, Eli Draizen, Fabian Garcia, and I Lane Rasberry established it last year in 2022. I want to describe what it is, the shows we have presented, and what we are trying to accomplish by hosting it. See […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival | Tagged chinchilla, coffee, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2023-01-03
For New Year’s Eve we went to the Southern concert venue in Charlottesville for Shagwüf and the Falsies. When I first moved to Charlottesville Fabian and I went there on 16 March 2018 to see Southern Culture on the Skids. Fabian had not been back since but I had gone there for concerts sometimes. Robin […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, gay stuff | Tagged holiday, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-18
There is a lot of opportunity to attend cultural events in New York. I suppose that one might say that these events are free, but from another perspective the events are only available to those people who can afford time to attend them, and that means being able to afford to live in a place […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged concert, music
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-07
On Saturday 6 July I went to see Monkey: Journey to the West. I went because I knew that the show was a project of the producers of the band Gorillaz. I knew that the show would be performed in Chinese language and I presumed that it would be musical but I did not know […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged music, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-09
Josh had written me in 2008 asking about Nandan, and Nandan had told me about his visit then saying that he was a fun guy. Josh is a musician. He plays percussion and seems to make music everywhere he goes. He brought this dancer named Penelope with him and together one would start making some […]
Posted in art, education, presentation | Tagged dance, music
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
Nandan and I stayed at this hotel called Ranjeet. As far as hotels go it suited my needs but I want to mention that it had a ground floor restaurant with a lounge singer every night. He had a cassette deck and a bunch of tapes and a microphone. He sung old Bollywood songs. Many […]
Posted in encounter, India | Tagged music
By bluerasberry on 2010-07-15
I went to see Lords of Acid and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Tuesday July 13 at Studio 7 in Georgetown. I listened to them when I was a teenager and it was cool to see them live. The venue sucked and I gave them a bad yelp but both bands were good. […]
Posted in drug, presentation, Seattle | Tagged concert, dance, music, pop culture
By bluerasberry on 2010-05-19
I attended part of a performance of Erik Satie’s(1866-1925) Vexations Jack Straw on May 16. Satie was a Parisian musician and dadaist who wrote minimalist repetitive music. This work, Vexations, is a song which most people would choose to play in about 3.5 minutes, but Satie wrote on the page of music the sentence, “In […]
Posted in art, presentation, Seattle | Tagged dada, music, performance
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-18
I have diarrhea again and have for about twelve hours. I feel dehydrated because I did not drink much last night. I miss gatorade because electrol powder has a salty taste. I am not sure if gatorade is as good but I thirst for it. More about the Kumba Mela – while waiting at the […]
Posted in India, religion | Tagged music