Good Looking Man About Town

Good Looking Man About Town

Morrissey

The last few days have been really jammed packed for me. Up, down and all around.

I'll recap the last few days for you: Thursday, was a long day of museums. At first the sculpture garden, then the museum is free after 5pm on Thursday. The Walker Art Museum is tailored more to modern art, so there was an emphasis on 60s artwork and photography. Heading over to MCAD's museum is mostly amazing renaissance pieces, combined with Asian and African artwork on the mid level.

Friday was Irish Festival on Harriet Island. We didn't spend too much time wandering through the various booths, as we got there as the Young Dublins (aka "The Young Dubs") was in the middle of their set. It had also rained earlier, so the grounds were completely soaked. As soon as we knew it, The Great Big Sea were on stage. They played a full set, and quite interactive with their fans. They also made sure that people knew that this was their tenth album, that they were no spring chickens. Made sure people knew that songs like "Nothing but a song" and "Good People" were from their new album, Safe Upon the Shore.

Great Big Sea at Irish Festival 2010 (08/13/10)

You can tell that having a reputation of touring sometime 300 days out of the year, that they've accumulated all these fans over time. The fans loved it and often sing along to their songs, however the whole crowd got to play the singalong game as well when the band went into a medley famous hit songs like "500 Miles", "Don't Stop Believin'", and "I Fought the Law".

We also managed to squeeze in a show at the 7th Street Entry for Phoenix Philosophy, which begs the question: if they broke up, will they raise again?

Phoenix Philosophy at 7th Street Entry (8/13/10)

Anyway, I was told that the show had sold-out, but judging from the half-filled venue, most people did not bother to show up (or perhaps showed up for the first band and then left). Well, on the bright side, there were plenty of elbow room.

Although Saturday didn't quite turned out as planned, it was still awesome as the day ran its course. We were supposed to show up and check out Pizza Luce, but that didn't happen. Instead, we spent most of the day record shopping. I know that may not sound that awesome to some people, but if you're a music lover (especially before MP3s), we still love to look over album artwork and packaging. Granted, I will not pay full price for music, I still love owning a physical version of my music. Bought some Pizacato Five albums, some Morrissey singles (for collecting reasons), Pulp single ("Trees"), and a cheap Broadcast album ($2).

We also ended up at Club Jager, which was sort of in this weird north-ish place, out of the mad club scene 10 blocks or so south.

I spent the whole of Sunday asleep in bed.

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