Life
Matisyahu at the Paramount Theater, 2/28/06
Mar 2nd
Matisyahu played the Paramount Theater in Denver this past Tuesday. He was fantastic.
The Paramount is a 2000+ person venue, possibly the largest indoor venue in Denver next to Pepsi Center (where the Denver Nuggets/Avalanche play).
He sold it out at least three weeks ago.
Hi set included many perennial (don’t know if you can call anything a guy who has played for a few years "perrenial") favorites, King without a Crown, Exaltation, and Warrior. He even included a few tracks from his new album Youth
Matis channels the spirit of Bob Marley and infuses with a cantorial style (cantors are the people in synagogues who lead a Jewish congregation in prayer). It is unquestionably unique and shows how the spirituallity that is the underpinnings of Reggae music can be used to express religions other than Rastfarianism.
It is awesome. As a secular Jew who went to Yeshiva but finds the most spirituality in modern music, I feel as if this music has been inside of me for a long time.
Now it’s time for it to get out!
Definitely check him out.
Dada-ismb: The New Neuroses
Feb 27th
So went to the Doctor last week for the regular, monthly checkup. All was good, but Marni had to take a quad screen . The quad screen is conducted during the second trimester (15 weeks to 22 weeks) to identify pregnancies at a higher risk for Down syndrome, trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect.
It’s a simple blood test that will help tell us if our baby-to-be might (operative word here) have some defects. In other words, the test is far from perfect. Still, a good score means you have less to worry about. A bad score means that you have more (but you also may not need more).
Yikes. Talk about a new source of agida! Yikes. While not the first time in my life that I had little control of the outcome of a test, I couldn’t help but feel a little vulnerable. Could I have prepared myself for it? Is there any way that I could done something to further insure that my kid passes.
I guess this is a glimpse into my future.
BTW – The test came back great. All is good with little Z. Or at least we have a good chance of thinking so….Argggh!!!
Dada-ism
Feb 27th
So, I’m going to become a father!
Sometime shortly after Marni and I did the NYC marathon , we conceived. It had been a relatively long haul: We’d been trying since about March 2005. While we weren’t concerned, we were starting to look at it.
Well, sometime in November, bada-bing, bada-boom, little Z was conceived.
It’s really cool but also a little freaky at the same time.
The Loss of Stability
Jan 18th
Is it a good thing that our economy (especially our tech sector) continues to churn its workers over and over again?
I’m in this predicament right now: My company, Maxtor, is being purchased by Seagate. It is all but expected that I will be losing my job in the next 6 months. While I think the transaction makes sense from a business standpoint (there really needs to be more consolidation in our industry), it’s hard for continuity. How can we build good solid companies if the ground keeps moving from underneath us?
