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[kodalai]

I went with a couple of other Seattle friends to see Imogen Heap in concert the other night. She's pretty amazing; for one thing, she's hugely tall, which I didn't realize until I saw her standing on stage next to a group of other women, and she was the tallest on stage and as tall as any of the men.

I'm not a huge Imogen Heap/Frou Frou fan, but I like her voice, and the concert was very enjoyable. She seems to take pains to make her concerts very interactive. As well as getting the audience to provide singing/chorus lines to an a capella song, she apparently has this thing where she'll ask the audience for a key, and then a short melodic line, and then she'll improvise a whole new song around it on the spot. And what's more, she does this in every city! The tracks she creates are recorded, put up on her website, and people can download them for a dollar, which is then donated to a local charity. Pretty neat!

That's been the most exciting thing that's happened here lately. The weather has been awful. :( We're getting to the longest days of the year, which at this latitude means it's still light going on 9:30-9:45 PM, not that you would ever see it because it's always cloudy and raining. We have maybe one day of nice weather, and then another of intermittent-partly-cloudy weather, and then it goes right back to raining and temperatures in the 50s like it's November, I swear.

Happy birthday, agingparents! I will call you a little later!

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[beccaabbott.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. It's raining right now in Portland. Two nice days; fifteen crappy ones. I moved from Michigan for this???

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

crappy weather.... didn't you move from socal the land of meteorological perfection to the northwest pacific coast, land of perpetual gray? i don't think there's any surprise here. but huggles anyway :-)