Spending Tuesday night at Jardine’s listening to holiday jazz perfomed by The Three Wisemen, drinking rum and Coke and having an all-around festive time.
Mr. Awesome and I are spending Friday night at the Record Bar seeing Alacartoona and the Barclay Martin Ensemble. It’s our first time seeing either group and our first visit to the Record Bar.
We’ll definitely be back. The bands are terrific, the venue is comfortable and the drinks aren’t watered down.
At Jardine’s, enyoying friends and the Jake Blanton Quartet.
This post by the Andersons inspired me to make a list of all the musical acts/musicians I’ve seen perform live. It’s not a long list, but there are some gems, for sure:
BB King – At Spirit Fest. Remember Spirit Fest?
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation tour – first concert without adult supervision
Harry Connick, Jr. – At Starlight, right after When Harry Met Sally came out. So good.
Reba McEntire – My mom got free tickets. She was pretty good.
The Judds – Again, mom got free tickets. They were terrific.
Michael Crawford – More free tickets from mom. I cried when he sang “Music of the Night.”
Bob Dylan – Spirit Fest. I couldn’t understand one word.
Lyle Lovett – Opened for Sting with a subdued set that didn’t really grab the crowd.
Sting – Fantastic.
Barry Manilow – He was freaking awesome.
Blink-182 – For my sister’s 16th birthday. They were unremarkable.
Alkaline Trio – Opened for Blink-182. Again, unremarkable.
Jackson Browne – Great show.
Keb ‘Mo – Okay, but not the best.
Bonnie Raitt – Fan-freaking-tastic. That woman is a force of nature.
Ben Folds – 15 times this year. I’m an addict.
Ben Lee – Twice with Ben Folds. Completely forgettable.
Eff Barzelay – Twice with Ben Folds – I would travel 3000 miles to see him perform again. Incredble.
Missy Higgins – Seven times with Ben Folds, and loved her more every time. I will definitely see her again.
Jewel – At Okobos Music Festival. Great entertainer – I was impressed.
Ingrid Michaelson – Okobos. I really short set, but good.
M. Ward – Okobos. Short set and that was sad. He was one of the best performers I’ve ever seen.
Death Cab For Cutie – Okobos. Good show.
David Byrne – “Once In A Lifetime” live. ‘Nuff said.
Coldplay – They performed 10 feet from us. The entire show was great.
I keep thinking that I’m missing something, but I don’t know what it is. Ah well.
I meant to relay this WTF moment that happened to me a month or so ago, but forgot until just now.
I miss you… rest n peace
WTF, I said out loud. Since I had nothing better to do, as I was riding in the car, I replied back. Here’s that conversation. The original texter is in italics:
I miss you… rest n peace
I think you have the wrong number.
Who is this
The person u told to rest n peace.
Stephen is the 1 i told to rip
No, you told me. you might want to tell Stephen again.
This was his number when he was alive I didn’t know they gave it 2 someone else
—About an hour passes—
Sorry 2 bother u but that was some freaky shit when u texted back
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Freaky shit, indeed. Although I don’t know what’s freakier – that I have a dead guy’s phone number, or that someone sent a text message to a dead guy. I guess we all deal with grief in our own way.
I’ve been in a very good mood since late last Tuesday evening. You know – new world, change, yes we can and all that. Exciting times, people. Now the countdown begins to January 20th, 2009. That day can’t come soon enough.
What else has been going on?
For the first time in my voting life, I stood in a line at my polling place. Then, on the way to work at 7AM, I saw a line of people snaking around a church just off of 71 Highway and 39th street. I feel like something historic is about to happen…
The law would repeal loss limits at casinos, which would cause already desperate people to lose even more of their money. Seriously – I think a $500 every two hour limit is fine for most folks. You want more, go to Vegas.
The law also restricts the number of casinos in the state to the number already built/being built. I don’t see how this benefits anyone other than the big casinos already in business.
As for generating money for schools, Kansas City would see none of it. In fact…
“The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released a study in early October saying that if Proposition A passes, it will not provide funding for Missouri’s largest school districts, and about one-quarter of Missouri’s public school students attend class in districts that are projected to get nothing next year from the ballot measure.” – from http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/M … on_A_(2008).
Overall, I just don’t think it’s a good idea to allow people to gamble away their life-savings so some rural schools can get what amounts to about 2% more per year in funding.
I’m thinking NO on Amendment 1, making English the official language of all governmental meetings. This is already the case – we don’t need a constitutional amendment for it.
I’ll probably vote YES on Amendment 4 regarding water control. While I don’t necessarily like that there are no specifics as to how newly non-restricted funds would be distributed, it looks like it wouldn’t be so bad to allow for increased funding for sewer projects.
Prop A – See above.
Prop B – Missouri Homecare Council – sounds good to me. Let homecare workers unionize.
Prop C – Clean Energy Initiative – If it is approved by voters, it will create a renewable electricity standard in the state. The standard would require utility companies to gradually increase their usage of renewable energy annually until 15 percent of the energy used in the state is renewable. The initiative would also require that energy rates not increase by more than one percent annually. Sounds like a YES to me.
