Mr. Anastasio's Opus

It's day two of my Prudential tempventures and today it is very clear that there were no blinds blocking my view yesterday, but clouds. I was working in the clouds yesterday. So many clouds that I could not see out the windows. I admit I felt pretty silly when hours later I realized that I could not see the tops of Chicago's beautiful skyscrapers due to the days dreary cloudage.

Anywho. The real reason for this quasi-meaningless post is that I recently acquired the new Trey Anastasio solo-ish album, Time Turns Elastic. It's an orchestral composition that is meant to be listened to as a whole, instead of sampling track by track and I'm pretty impressed, despite the fact that Rolling Stone only gave the album 2 and one-half stars coupled with a half-assed review. The 29-minutes in three movements begins with the first composed by Don Hart and then opens into Anastasio's silly, light, and inspirationally introverted lyrics with Landslide. The rest of the tracks give composing credit to both Hart and Anastasio. It's very instrumental and flows "in and out of focus," according to Anastasio's lyrics. I really enjoyed how he coupled the classical orchestra with his electric guitar shredding I'm so fond of. I did a few internet searches of the album to see what Phans on tour are saying, but it seems like most of them are probably busy at Bonnaroo. At any rate, after discussing the album with a phriend, it seems that this is Mr. Anastasio's Opus. With hints of Phish and other Trey songs throughout, this solo album only shares a few recognizable bars and lines from the name-sharing Time Turns Elastic single included on Phish's fourth-coming studio album. I, for one, give it more stars than RS, and would recommend it to a friend or phriends.

Since we're getting so Phishy up in here, I might as well mention that in 8 days I will be seeing my first live Phish shows!!! I can't even fit the amount of exclamation points that this occasion deserves!!!!!! Plus, it's the 23rd birthday of someone very near and dear to me, so that's gonna be crazy too. I'm hoping for a Birds of a Feather, Cities, Contact or really anything from Junta.