How do you know where to throw the ball

A list of six activities indulged in and two not indulged in:

1. 8/12: Wolves in the Throne Room with Ludicra and The Better to See You With, Slim's. Thinking that the concert would certainly not begin on time, I arrived late, thinking in this way to miss the first opener. In fact, I missed both them and all but the last five or so minutes of Ludicra's act too, and those five minutes made it seem as if the set must have been pretty fucking awesome.  However! Wolves in the Throne Room were good too.
2. 8/13: Zs with Burmese and the Drums at 21 Grand.  Burmese and the Drums both were not very interesting. The trio lineup of Zs played on very long piece with lots of piercing, high, dissonant tones. Good concert.
3. 8/14: Ellen Weller, Bob Weller, and Marcos Fernandes; Tanja Feichtmar and Damon Smith at the Luggage Store Gallery. I didn't go to this.
4. 8/15: Weasel Walter showed concert footage of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, the AEC again with Cecil Taylor, Last Exit, Sun Ra, a quartet with Paul Lovens, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and ... I think Alexander von Schlippenbach, and a segment from a Japanese New Wave movie whose title I've forgotten with a free jazz trio whose name I've forgotten, and maybe something else; then Sam Hillmer (sax. in Zs) and John Dwyer (perc + flute) improvise; then Ben Greenberg (g. in Zs), Weasel Walter, and Tanja Feichtmar improvise; high point of this was when Greenberg played some really ugly-sounding scratchy guitar noise followed by an absolutely immense bass note from a severely downtuned string.
5. 8/16: Monsters of Accordion at 12 Galaxies. This sucked almost without exception. There would have been another exception had I stayed for Jason Webley's set, but I've already seen him and I was suffering enough.
6. 8/17: Memorial concert for Toyoji Tomita at the Meridians Arts Gallery. I didn't go to this either.
7. 8/18: Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly, and Doveman at the Swedish-American Music Hall. I've enthused about this concert already multiple times and have neither the will nor the energy to repeat myself; suffice to say it was fantastic.
8. 8/19: Chris Brown/Tim Perkis duo; Devin Hoff Platform (didn't catch names of other performers); Free Jazz Alto Summit (= Tanja Feichtmar, James Fei, Jorrit Dijkstra, Steve Adams: alto sax; Weasel Walter, drums; Damon Smith, bass; Kjell Nordeson, vibes & drums) at the Uptown). Opening duo made a lot of sounds but was totally boring (I could have gone for some onkyo-style stuff, though). DHP I liked a good deal while they were playing, but were totally blown out of the water by the main act, which was nearly perfect, if too short. While they were setting up there was some discussion about how they'd be going about their business, as one person wanted to have the rhythm section play alone for a bit, then the saxes play as a quartet, and then have the free-for-all begin; that didn't happen, and they just went straight into playing (actually things did begin with just bass and WW's drums, but), though, and no doubt this was partly guided by the initial discussion, there did emerge a bass/drums/vibes trio and two (or three?) sax quartet bits, but these all seemed to arise very nicely within the context of the music as it happened; they played really well together (though Dijkstra and Adams were perhaps especially simpatico), and even Fei, who was annoyingly trick-oriented the last time I saw him, was on form.

Those who know that Weasel is a member of Burmese know that he performed in fully half the concerts I attended.