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Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Monday, November 18, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3562 - PJ Harvey in Concert

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3562 - PJ Harvey in Concert

Over a month ago, I went to see Polly Jean (PJ) Harvey in concert in Portland at the "Theater of the Clouds," which is the fancy way of saying the concert set-up at the Moda sports arena. Silly Portland.

It was a great show, though I have delayed the post only to cobble together all the elements.

I love when an artist plays an entire album as Pj Harvey did to start the show, playing her new album, a companion to her book of poetry Orlam entitled I Inside the Old Year Dying.

Some people in attendance grew irritated later in the show that PJ Harvey did not talk between songs. She and her band just played music. She only spoke when she thanked the audience and introduced her band.

And that's okay.

It was great actually.

I have added here concert footage from other parts of the tour, the I Inside the Old Year Dying album, and a playlist based on the Portland show with some extras at the end.

Set lists included.

Read about PJ HARVEY here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Harvey

Buy I Inside the Old Year Dying and Orlam, both of which are brilliant.

Probably I Inside the Old Year Dying is my favorite album of 2023, bumping the slot previously held by Janelle Monáe's The Age of Pleasure.

Enjoy and thanks for tuning in!!

https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/pj-harvey-33d6a8ed.html

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pj-harvey/2024/alaska-airlines-theater-of-the-clouds-portland-or-4b509b3a.html

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PJ Harvey Setlistat Alaska Airlines' Theater of the Clouds, Portland, OR, USA

PJ HARVEY in 4K - FULL SHOW - HISTORY, TORONTO - WED SEPT 25 2024 - I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING TOUR

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SETLIST:

00:00 stage entrance

~ I Inside The Old Year Dying ~ begins

00:40 1.Prayer at the Gate

05:21 2.Autumn Term

09:10 3.Lwonesome Tonight

13:25 4.Seem an I

16:25 5.The Nether-Edge

20:31 6.I Inside the Old Year Dying

22:55 7.All Souls

27:37 8.A Child's Question, August

31:05 9.I Inside the Old I Dying

34:50 10.August

38:39 11.A Child's Question, July

42:30 12.A Noiseless Noise

~ I Inside The Old Year Dying ~ ends

47:15 13.The Colour of the Earth

50:26 14.The Glorious Land

54:38 15.The Words That Maketh Murder

58:49 16.Angelene

1:02:51 17.Send His Love to Me

1:07:35 18.The Garden

1:13:00 19.The Desperate Kingdom of Love (Solo acoustic)

1:16:10 20.Man-Size

1:19:38 21.Dress

1:23:28 22.Down by the Water

1:26:50 PJ chat & band member introductions

1:27:36 23.To Bring You My Love

- Encore - -

1:35:16 24.The Community of Hope

1:38:35 25.Dollar, Dollar

NOTE: with JOHN PARISH (guitar and keys), GIOVANNI FERRARIO (bass, guitar, and keys), JEAN-MARC BUTTY (drums), and JAMES JOHNSTON (guitar, violin, and keys)

BIOGRAPHY: (excerpt courtesy of Stephen Thomas Erlewine at https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pj-ha...)

Of the singer/songwriters who rose to prominence during the alternative rock explosion, few are as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Over the course of her career, Harvey established herself as one of the most individual and influential songwriters of her era, exploring themes of sex, religion, and political issues with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and theatrical flair. At the outset, she delivered stark songs with bruisingly powerful abandon, as on 1993's Rid of Me. Over time, Harvey's music became more nuanced and eclectic. Her 2001 album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, featured a heady mix of trip-hop, guitar rock, and troubadourism, earning her the prestigious Mercury Prize. Harvey continually shifted gears, moving from the ghostly Victoriana of 2007's White Chalk to the moody social commentary of 2011's Let England Shake (an album that made her the only artist to win a second Mercury Prize). With the mysterious, folky realms of 2022's epic poem Orlam and 2023's companion album I Inside the Old Year Dying, Harvey's gift for creating immersive worlds remained unparalleled.

PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying (2023)

1.Prayer at the Gate

2.Autumn Term

3.Lwonesome Tonight

4.Seem an I

5.The Nether-Edge

6.I Inside the Old Year Dying

7.All Souls

8.A Child's Question, August

9.I Inside the Old I Dying

10.August

11.A Child's Question, July

12.A Noiseless Noise

PJ HARVEY LIVE - SECOND SET - BASED ON PORTLAND SHOW - 2410.07 - With Extras

PJ Harvey at Primavera Sound Barcelona 2024

Primavera Sound

Jun 12, 2024

Prayer at the Gate 0:00 - 4:00

The Nether-edge 4:17 - 7:54

I Inside the Old Year Dying 8:05 - 9:42

The Glorious Land 10:10 - 13:40

Let England Shake 14:28 - 17:17

The Words That Maketh Murder 18:05 - 21:35

A Child's Question, August 22:36 - 25:11

I Inside the Old I Dying 25:46 - 28:45

Send His Love to Me 29:24 - 33:20

50ft Queenie 34:00 - 36:20

Black Hearted Love 36:50 - 41:10

Angelene 41:50 - 45:10

The Garden 45:43 - 50:17

The Desperate Kingdom of Love (dedicated to Steve Albini) 50:47 - 53:47

Man-Size 54:20 - 57:28

Dress 57:33 - 1:00:45

Down by the Water 1:01:17 - 1:04:03

To Bring You My Love 1:05:10 - 1:10:10

Here are my not so great photos... some are okay...

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2411.18 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3426 days ago & DAD = 082 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

I am Christopher Tower the gmr

I am Christopher Tower (or Chris), and I am a writer of stuff. I grew up in Michigan; I now live in the Portland, OR metro area. I play Ultimate, ride a bike, and supposedly educate college persons while myself being educated in college. I am married with two kids, a beagle, a curly lab, and a fiesty pug/frenche mix. I like sushi. I love all SF, fantasy, comic books, D&D, board games, and Gnosticism. I am a Jungian. I am currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University.

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

Hey, Mom! The Explanation.

Monday, November 18, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3562 - PJ Harvey in Concert

PJ Harvey Setlistat Alaska Airlines' Theater of the Clouds, Portland, OR, USA