Motss.con XIX: Early Attendees

[jwg]

Some of arrived early on Wednesday afternoon and we went over to unzeugmatic's apartment for takeout Chinese. Some of us sat around on his porch for a while.

His place is in a craftsman style house with Mission style and similar furniture. Steven is a collector of interesting stuff: mid-century clocks, books of all kinds, Fiestaware (on which we ate the Chinese takeout), glassware, and many other things.






And in the kitchen there was a bit of impromptu shapenote singing. Click to see/hear a bit.
Click to see/hear more.

Comments

[unzeugmatic.livejournal.com]

The singing in the clip is really painful, I know -- but we realized that at the time and tried to tune up. As Jim notes, some things shouldn't be immortalized. We're singing "Seaman's Hymn" there, and trying to figure out our parts as well go along.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

That's my neighbor and landlord Stephen Parker singing with us. Twenty years ago or so he was engaged to Denise.

Ignoring the soundtrack, though, it's a great great picture of us in the kitchen. Thanks.

[vasilatos]

I like the singing. It makes me think of people in villages, years ago, who knew not a whole lot but wanted to generate some righteous noise. The whole business of "quality" in singing is a giant question for me. My point is, you should have done it, you should have recorded it, and I'm glad you did. It's neato.