5 posts tagged “tim finn”

I just love this for very obvious reasons:

It's time I faced up to reality.

I am now a woman of a 'certain age' who cannot, among other things, stay up going full throttle for 24 hours.

This weekend was busy. The skeleton emerged from the back of the closet, as scheduled, when I returned home from work on Saturday. He had just travelled by big ol' jet airliner from California and we quickly got in the car and headed to Louisville, Kentucky to see Tim Finn! Like I said before, lucky, lucky me!

 Yes, his hair is delicious.

The show was really lovely and I enjoyed the company of my dear old skeleton. We ventured back to my house after the show, but desperately needed to stop for sustenance before we called it a night. Our only option at 1:00 in the morning??

 I know. Eww.

After a desperate attempt to find a tattoo parlor open without success, we headed home to visit more and to play with Olive. Olive was none too sure about this skeleton, see, and that just made things more interesting.

One cheap bottle of wine later and after a visit from my house ghost, who was obviously not too thrilled with a gentleman caller in the house, my guest headed back to the airport for his trip home at a highly unreasonable hour.

I am so happy to have gone to the show, but also very impressed that someone would go to so much trouble just to give me a ride.

I dragged a skeleton out of my closet. He was a bit dusty, but he was back there. He's always been back there. Way back in the back.

At any rate, this skeleton has always treated me pretty well, as have most of my 'skeletons.' This time, however; he's on track for an award.

It seems Tim Finn is playing about two hours away from where I live very close to Valentine's Day. Being witty like I am, I asked him (the skeleton, not Tim Finn) whether he would meet me there, or pick me up. As it turns out, he's going to pick me up. He'll be flying in from the West Coast, renting a car and taking me to the show. I think it's a tad out of his way, but he's a little kooky like that.

Not only does this skeleton know how much I adore everything Finn (Tim in particular), but it is something that he (the skeleton) and I had in common, back before he was placed in the back of the closet. I am simply not accustomed to pampering of this kind. Check with me after the show - I am willing to bet I could get used to it.

In the meantime, I have been listening to my extensive collection of Tim Finn music, and I am really looking forward to the show.

Okay, so it's not a bass guitar, but it is Tim Finn!! Lucky, lucky me!

Do you own all the albums of any particular musical artist or group? Who?
Submitted by dutterman.

One missing:

I never bought Liars. I have heard it, but I think it's the first time I decided not to buy something from Todd.

In the 80s I could certainly have been called a groupie, as I saw him in many venues on the West coast. I have seen him twice here in the Midwest, and I am never disappointed at one of his live shows. Never.

I wanted badly to see him on his recent tour with Joe Jackson (another favorite of whom I own nearly all of his musical collection), but they never quite made it to my neighborhood.

I think I have them all:

 I have a sampling of Split Enz, but I have every solo album of Tim Finn and Neil Finn. I also have the whole catalog of Crowded House. My preference for all things Finn has also influenced my pre-US release purchase of Liam Finn's introductory release (mentioned here previously).

I'm working on completing this collection:

 Close. So close.

Finally, a full moon. I was wondering when it would show up. My life has been in Full Moon Mode for more than a few weeks, let me tell you (actually, don't let me tell you because it's far too weird).

Times like this, for me, are opportunities to accept small victories graciously. It is important to focus on the small things that are (or can be) under my control, as opposed to sinking into the sea of unknown and uncontrollable. What can I control?

I finished my second fuzzy green glove last night. Good thing, the weather should be cold in, what, 6 months?

I took the first of two exams used for my entire semester grade for one of my summer classes the other day. While it's not satisfactory to me, it's nearly an A. Being an art student makes it hard for me to adjust to less subjective grading at times, but I really wanted to ace that one.

I have made arrangements to go out for live music this weekend. That is something I used to do with great regularity, but I have gotten away from it in recent years. Well, that and I have a rather bad reaction to cigarette smoke. Imagine how happy I was about two years ago to go see the Finn Brothers with no smoke. I am sorry Neil had to make the special request because he had the flu, but it worked out to my advantage. Trivial comment: I tried to get close enough to Neil to actually catch the flu from him, but I only managed an autograph from him (and Tim, too) on my liner notes from ENZso. It's one of my favorite cds of all time. Tim looked at it and asked me where I got it. Odd.

Tonight, I will make sure to get outside to look at the Full Moon if it's not raining or clouded over. It's good to know that there is a possible explanation to seemingly strange things. As for control, I hope I can maintain it and maybe, just maybe, lose a little of it at the right time.

Listening to this right now, and it's hard to control my urge to sing: