UfoTofu.net has a very useful and interesting article titled…
(Well, it’s useful to me, anyway.)
This page will show you:
open the back end of an accordion and carefully put cardboard in to prevent
the bass buttons from diving beneath the bassboard in transit. I’ll even explain
how to pack it! SUPER COOL TRENDY FUN!
You can tell just by looking at him.
“He’s a complicated cat and no one understands him but his woo-maaaaaan…”
[Photo courtesy of Adampsyche.]
Nothing livens up a party like a suave, snappy dresser with an accordion!
Last night’s party was a success — with the comings and goings
throughout the night, I’d estimate about 60 or so people showed up
(still big enough to warrant the traditon of filling the bathtub with
ice), many of whom were totally or relatively new Greater Toronto Area Bloggers (a.k.a. GTABloggers)
gatherings. We wnet all multimedia this year — not only was my
PowerBook doing musical duty in the dining room/accordion stage, but
Rannie’s PowerBook and an LCD project were set up in the living room
showing the Toronto Area Photobloggers’ excellent work.
It was a great intersection of three different local blogging groups:
not just the GTABloggers, but the Toronto Area Photobloggers and the
Toronto-and-area LiveJournal contingent (and yes, the “Did you hear
about the LiveJournal girl in Alaska who killed her mom?” conversation
ensued at one point).
The Phineas Fogg award for the guest who travelled the longest distance to attend the party goes to the lovely and talented Min Jung Kim, who came from San Francisco the hard way: flying to Detroit to visit friends and family, then driving to Accordion City. She also had her first taste of icewine last night, and I think we’ve ruined all other dessert wines for her.
My thanks to everyone who came, everyone who brought food (great food,
too!), everyone who helped set up and clean up and especially Rannie,
who is the heart and soul of the GTABloggers.
The first batch of photos have been posted on the GTABloggers blog; you can check out the photo album in either album or slideshow form.
I was so rushed and so busy last Wednesday that I didn’t get time to
mention that the blog would be a little silent while I flew to Boston
forAmerican Thanksgiving, an engagement party thrown by my future in-laws and
to pick up the accordion that Wendy found for me (and bring in back in the super-cool nigh-indestructible accordion case that Wendy gave me for my birthday). I’ll update throughout the rest of the day.
Urban Medium’s T-shirt design, DJ-D2 is pretty sweet…
…but in my opinion, the AG-D2 version is superior and even more ready to get the par-tay started:
Today, November 10, 2004, is the first anniversary of ther release of Outkast’s biggest single, Hey Ya!, in the UK. While the clever pop magazine Pop Justice hails the song as one of the greatest singles of 2003, they’ve had enough. They’ve posted a page titled ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and are asking all you Beyonces and Lucy Lius and babydolls to get off the floor. They’re asking people to stop dancing to Hey Ya.
I think they will meet with very little success. The song’s riff (build
on top on an infection G – C – D – Em progression) is so catchy that
people will dance and sing to even my (necessarily pared down)
accordion rendition.
I just got an email from my friend Karen B., who wrote in response to the invitation to my party this Saturday:
The woman who asked turned out to be an old friend of mine from high school.
My question is: How does the subject of accordions come up in a “normal” conversation, especially at a snooty private club?
