Eventful weekend! Friday I went to the Texas NARAL lunch and represented while Anna was down for the count. I'm looking forward to getting more involved here after having worked for Washington NARAL in Seattle. Ok, then later that night I was able to go to the Arcade Fire show at Emo's, which was sold out. They played for a little under an hour, and sounded great. They had six band members stretched across the front of the stage all in a line, with a drumset behind. Several of them would switch instruments at various points, but in general there were two violins, an accordion, drums, keyboard, guitar, bass, a xylaphone-type instrument which i couldn't see, and extra miscellaneous percussion (including hitting the metal rafter overhead with drumsticks).
what made the experience so pleasant was the utter un-pretentiousness of the crowd. just a bunch of nice folks who appreciate good music out to see the latest "buzz" band. lot's of "excuse me's" and "i'm sorry's" from people trying to squeeze their way through the dense crowd, and people graciously made room for them. amazing. i was in one of my rare "i love people" moods that night, so i was probably just seeing the best of everything. thanks to anna, who was still too sick to come out, but made every effort to give her spot on the guest list to me. i felt like a VIP!
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