It's getting toasty! Although the nice weather is generally more fun to be in, I must admit that once I can no longer wear my hoodies I feel naked. I'll get used to it, someday. Some of my dogs absolutely love it:
Some animals are not as impressed.
That's the way it goes.
I went down to Indianapolis to experience Wagner's entire 4-opera Ring Cycle back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Yup, 16.5 hours of German opera in a row. My buddy Matt Williams works at the Wheeler Arts Center down there and decided to get the DVDs, project them on a wall and have speakers blasting some of the most powerful music ever written. Of course I had to go and support such foolishness! After way too much pizza, soda, doughnuts and cheeseballs, we somehow managed to stay awake for the whole thing. Some other people came in and out to sample it, but we were the true heroes that night/day. Pretty sure I can legally speak German now, too.
Since I was already in my old stomping grounds, once we caught up on sleep I got to hang with my old professors from Butler, as well as some old friends. Eating good food, drinking good drinks, it was perfect.
I've played guitar for a couple variety show things with our friend Wes, the guy who did the one-man-show with us as his band in February. Basically he's the MC, so he'll sing some songs interspersed with his friends doing comedy or lip-syncing or rapping, it's a blast. Also the show we did is coming back for a second run, Sundays in June at 8pm, check it out!
Bricklayers has played a couple more shows recently as well, we're definitely getting more comfortable on stage. We played with some of our friends at this awesome dive bar Moe's Tavern, you might remember we played there a year ago as well. Things got a little spooky at times:
But it seriously rocked. Then we played at our home turf, Township. Very fun stuff.
A big event in my life was seeing not one, but TWO Red Sox-White Sox games while they were in town. And wouldn't you know, we won both games 10-3. How cool is that? I must be a good luck charm. Here's Ross and I getting ready for the showdown.
My dear mama came to town for a work conference, so we got to hang and eat downtown. As always, all are welcome to my fair city! I will drop whatever it is I am or am not doing to lead you around, just say the word!
We christened the good weather with our apartment's first barbecue of the season, that was excellent. And then there was the weekend of all weekends, my college roommate Daryl's bachelor party in Miami. Wow. It was a group of about 10 of us, we rented a couple rooms in this swanky apartment building, and took Miami by storm. Lots of hanging out, some clubbing, some unmentionables, but all around an awesome time.
On Friday our calypso band played up at Northwestern, they were having a little Carib-fest and we opened the festivities. It was very cool, normally we play at youth soccer tournaments or people's barbecues, so just being on a college campus was a very different experience. We rocked the house, duh.
As for our sports teams, the Sox are gonna be ok. And the Celtics are doing great, it's been a real treat watching them battle these young guns. The Heat are a very good team, but I ain't giving up just yet. Hit em where it hurts, boys!
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