In the Old Downtown
Aug. 9th, 2008 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI'm not sure why I'm up so early today. I'm not tired now, but I wouldn't be surprised if my tiredness comes to stab me in the back later today.
So, okay. Laura Cantrell last night. That's a sentence fragment, isn't it? Oh, well. You can see my pictures of the concert (as well as a few other things in Philadelphia that I thought were worth photographing) here, but I'll admit that most of them didn't come out too well, since I didn't use a flash. I'd bought the tickets for the show a while ago, and didn't realize at the time that it would be a split bill with someone named Carrie Rodriguez. And even though Laura was the one who received higher billing on the website, I think Carrie's set was actually longer. Anyway, Laura was accompanied by mandolin, guitar, and upright bass players; and they started the set with "Don't Break the Heart." Laura messed up a little in the second verse, but I'll forgive her. {g} Most of the rest of the set was from her new EP of covers of travel-related songs, Trains and Boats and Planes. After her set, I bought a copy of the EP, and she signed it for me. I mentioned that I saw her before the last time she came to the Tin Angel, which was during a snowstorm. She was apparently six months pregnant at the time, but I didn't even realize that. While I was buying the EP and meeting Laura, some old guy was talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje.
As for Carrie, I thought she was talented, but kind of forgettable. I do give her credit for playing both guitar and violin (not at the same time, though {g}), and for her Art Nouveau girl look.
After leaving the venue and paying $22 to the parking garage (I think I need to find another parking place next time I go to the Tin Angel), we went to eat at Friendly's. I couldn't finish my whole meal, but I brought the rest of it home. I'll have to remember to eat it tonight; I'm often bad about remembering leftovers. I also had the Wattamelon Roll sundae, and Beth kept mentioning some Conan O'Brien bit that mentions that dessert. I thought it was good, but chocolate chips really don't go too well with sherbet.
Incidentally, I didn't realize my voice post would be automatically transcribed, and very poorly at that. "I read a little more of the O'Reilly book" became "I run away when I'm bored," and "Al Franken" became "out for anything." Oh, you crazy automatic transcribers!
So, okay. Laura Cantrell last night. That's a sentence fragment, isn't it? Oh, well. You can see my pictures of the concert (as well as a few other things in Philadelphia that I thought were worth photographing) here, but I'll admit that most of them didn't come out too well, since I didn't use a flash. I'd bought the tickets for the show a while ago, and didn't realize at the time that it would be a split bill with someone named Carrie Rodriguez. And even though Laura was the one who received higher billing on the website, I think Carrie's set was actually longer. Anyway, Laura was accompanied by mandolin, guitar, and upright bass players; and they started the set with "Don't Break the Heart." Laura messed up a little in the second verse, but I'll forgive her. {g} Most of the rest of the set was from her new EP of covers of travel-related songs, Trains and Boats and Planes. After her set, I bought a copy of the EP, and she signed it for me. I mentioned that I saw her before the last time she came to the Tin Angel, which was during a snowstorm. She was apparently six months pregnant at the time, but I didn't even realize that. While I was buying the EP and meeting Laura, some old guy was talking to
bethje.As for Carrie, I thought she was talented, but kind of forgettable. I do give her credit for playing both guitar and violin (not at the same time, though {g}), and for her Art Nouveau girl look.
After leaving the venue and paying $22 to the parking garage (I think I need to find another parking place next time I go to the Tin Angel), we went to eat at Friendly's. I couldn't finish my whole meal, but I brought the rest of it home. I'll have to remember to eat it tonight; I'm often bad about remembering leftovers. I also had the Wattamelon Roll sundae, and Beth kept mentioning some Conan O'Brien bit that mentions that dessert. I thought it was good, but chocolate chips really don't go too well with sherbet.
Incidentally, I didn't realize my voice post would be automatically transcribed, and very poorly at that. "I read a little more of the O'Reilly book" became "I run away when I'm bored," and "Al Franken" became "out for anything." Oh, you crazy automatic transcribers!
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Date: 2008-08-09 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 12:32 am (UTC)No, seriously, I listened back to my message, and the quality isn't all that great. I didn't ASK it to do the automatic transcription, and it's never done that before, but it's pretty funny.
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Date: 2008-08-09 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-10 12:33 am (UTC)