Sentences

I just finished reading _The Corrections_ by Jonathan Franzen. Here are some of my favourite sentences:

p7 "It's the fate of most Ping Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games."

p98 "Rationally Chip knew that Doug would let him go soon and that eventually he might even escape the Nightmare of Consumption and find a restaurant bathroom where he could take the filet out and regain his full critical faculties - that there would come a moment when he was no longer standing amid pricey gelati with lukewarm fish in his pants, and that this future moment would be a moment of extraordinary relief - but for now he still inhabited an earlier, much less pleasant moment from the vantage point of which a new brain looked like just the ticket."

p425 "Not until she was at the pier and her mother kissed her and a quite different Denise, a Version 5.0, nearly put her tongue in the pretty old woman's mouth, nearly ran her hands down Enid's hips and thighs, nearly caved in and promised to come at Christmas for as long as Enid wanted, did the extent of the correction she was undergoing reveal itself."

p485 "If a perky, homely evangelical girl insisted on talking, he had a right to choose the topic."

p 541 "Denise's shampoo had the pleasing, subtle scents of late-model Western capitalism."

There you go, Coyote...

time, he flies

so busy these days and in the last stages of recuperation from illness, but wanted to put up these photos from our Evil Elvis nite at the Elmdale - so much fun. The photos were take by Charline, who kindly gave me permission to rip them off of her facebook profile.

What to wear...

This is the age-old question. We are playing at the Elmdale tonight. I'm stocking up on the black eyeliner. Thinking of the classic black and red for a colour scheme...

Horrorbilly, Hellbilly, and Elizabeth Riley-billy

Sunday 27th afternoon art/music show

This is a photo from Ray - he posted it to facebook - from our Carleton Place gig last weekend. It was incredibly fun, in the photo we are jamming with a group called the Celtic Jammers. The venue was an art/coffee shop called Brushstrokes on Bridge Street. It was a great acoustic evening in a cosy and welcoming place.

Next weekend we have another acoustic set coming up in a legendarily good acoustic space, St Brigid's Centre for Arts and Humanities in the Byward Market. The event is an art show called Rhapsody in Hues, put on by Artemisia to raise money for St Brigid's restoration fund. All the art work is on the theme of music, and there will be music playing throughout the weekend. We are on at 3pm Sunday for an hour of bluegrassy goodness!

Gigs, gigs

First, I have to say that I was BLOWN AWAY last night by ALT. They were already my favourite band, but now... I think they're gods.

Second, I have gigs! One of my gigs of course is that I'm back in my regular job duties at Carleton, so I have classes that I'm going to teach and a program to run and various other stuff.

BUT on the music front, Elizabeth Riley has gigs:

In Carleton Place, this Saturday Sep 12th, between 6-9 pm at Brushstrokes (an artstore/coffeeshop), as part of a show featuring the Celtic Jammers and various poets. This is part of Sounds of Downtown, an annual CP extravaganza, and just one of many examples of the vibrancy of the arts in the Ottawa Valley.

At St Brigid's Centre for Arts and Humanities, Sunday Sep 27th, 3pm, providing music at an art show called "Rhapsody in Hues" which is raising money for the restoration and maintenance of this beautiful historic space.

Aug 29 Women's Stage: Elizabeth Riley Band

We are very excited to be playing the Women's Stage this Saturday night as part of Capital Pride. It en plein air in front of City Hall, Marion Dewar Plaza. The show starts at 5pm and runs til 9 - we are the second band up, so I'm estimating maybe 5:30 or 5:45 we'll be embarking on our material - it's a shortish set, 25 minutes.

Stand up close to the stage to benefit from a limited time giveaway offer ;) - we recently made a demo CD and we're going to chuck a few into the crowd.

Also, of course, the topic of who will be wearing what is causing many pre-show conversations. I was going to wear my friend Wenna's cowboy hat, but when Carmel tried it on during a practice, we all agreed that it looks so excellent on her, SHE should wear the hat. However I am very much looking forward to finally wearing a funky pair of high heels that I bought two years ago at a now-defunct consignment store in Carleton Place (three sisters - it was soooo great). They are cowboy-ish in nature, that's all I'm gonna say.

What will we be playing - a mix of covers and originals:

Shame on You
Shady Grove
Redemption Day
Young Women to Old
Women's Stories