Comments on: The Living, Breathing Past. http://www.stripmallarchitecture.com/blog/2010/01/09/the-living-breathing-past/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:11:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Pate http://www.stripmallarchitecture.com/blog/2010/01/09/the-living-breathing-past/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Joe Pate Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:55:51 +0000 http://www.stripmallarchitecture.com/blog/?p=142#comment-429 Thanks for the extra info Ryan. You all pulled this off so well that I'm almost obsessive about this show -- it's easy to get overpsyched about something that sounds great on paper and then the show doesn't really come off. (Please don't tell them I said this, but that's how I felt about Foxtail Somersault's set -- they didn't play badly, exactly, but it was clear that they didn't all have the same enthusiasm for the songs they decided to cover. ) However, the SMA++ set was excellent from start to finish and it felt special just to be there -- especially if there's only ever the one performance (and I don't blame you if you decide not to try something this big again very soon). TMC was definitely a big part of my college experience; maybe it was a UCSC thing? Oh yeah, I just remembered that it was also one of the things that accelerated my getting married -- I played some TMC on our first date and needless to say, it went over well. Thanks for doing this! -Joe Thanks for the extra info Ryan. You all pulled this off so well that I’m almost obsessive about this show — it’s easy to get overpsyched about something that sounds great on paper and then the show doesn’t really come off. (Please don’t tell them I said this, but that’s how I felt about Foxtail Somersault’s set — they didn’t play badly, exactly, but it was clear that they didn’t all have the same enthusiasm for the songs they decided to cover. ) However, the SMA++ set was excellent from start to finish and it felt special just to be there — especially if there’s only ever the one performance (and I don’t blame you if you decide not to try something this big again very soon). TMC was definitely a big part of my college experience; maybe it was a UCSC thing? Oh yeah, I just remembered that it was also one of the things that accelerated my getting married — I played some TMC on our first date and needless to say, it went over well.

Thanks for doing this!

-Joe

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