Kevin's musings

I’ve been meaning to write about the concert on last sunday night, but haven’t gotten around to it until now.

Wandered down to my friend A’s house after the bike ride on sunday with a pack of wine and goodies and we met up and walked over to the Denver botanic gardens. Lucky for me, A works there and managed to get some employee passes to get into the show. It otherwise sold out in minutes. The venue there is about 2000 people capacity and very nice. It’s a stage in the center and grassy slopes around it. People were sitting all around the stage, meaning some folks just got a good view of the back of the performers all the time, but they didn’t seem to mind too much.

We didn’t get a great spot, but I could see the stage over the people with chairs in front of us. We had wine and snacks and chatted and it was very nice. The weather was even great. Sunny, but not too hot.

Suzanne Vega was first up on stage. She had a bassist with her part of the time, and was just by herself with her gitar some of the time. She was great. She did one new song, which was pretty cool and a LOT of older stuff. She did quite a bit from the first album (“Queen and the soldier”, “Marlene on the wall”, etc). She did do all the “hits” as well… toms diner was amusing, as she got the crowd to do the “doo doo doo” part of it. She had some good stories between songs and was very relaxed. The only downside is that she only played for about an hour or so. It would have been cool to hear another hour or two of music from her.

Marc Cohn came on then after dark. I don’t know his music very well. He was pretty good though, and his hits were well done. He didn’t seem to interact with the audience as well as Suzanne, but he played well. Unfortunately for him, after the show he got shot by some nut bar trying to carjack his van. Luckily he’s ok.

All in all, the shows at the garden are great. Perhaps I will try and get tickets when they go on sale next year and go to more of them. Being able to sit on a blanket on the grass and drink wine and watch a show is nice.

Yikes. Been a week and I have slacked on updating at all. Here’s a quick recap of my pretty boring life over the last week:

- Wed night was out GURPs game night. The adventure is moving along, the characters made some progress.
- Thu night was the ever fun hackingsociety meeting in boulder. I managed to use the new Fedora Extras build system to build packages for exo and Terminal that I had been stuck getting to build at all with the old system for months.
- Fri Ebony the foster greyhound went and had her spay. She was zonked on friday night, but bounced right back to being a hyper puppy on saturday.
- Sat was a friends BBQ up in boulder. I took Twyla and Merlin and they had a great time hanging out with the other dogs.
- Sun I went bike riding in boulder along boulder creek. In the shade near the creek it was pretty nice. In the sun away from the creek it was super hot and nasty. We only went for about 10mi or so.
- Sun night I went to the Suzzane Vega/Marc Cohn concert at the botanical gardens down in denver. (That probibly should get it’s own post later today.

Well, this last weekend was the last weekend of faire (at least in larkspur) this year. It was both nice to have it end (I get weekends back, hurray!) and sad (It’s a lot of fun out there usually). Saturday was pretty opressively hot, sunday was much nicer with a bit of rain to settle the dust. Managed to get out of the booth long enough to see all of a Scottish Mayhem show and pick up Ben Holmes rock band cd. There was some Faire drama on saturday, but hopefully it will all work out ok.

Ebony is getting along much better with my dogs, but she once again had issues with some other dogs on sunday. Saturday there wasn’t much problem, but sunday she was very grouchy. I suspect it’s just too much going on and she gets tired and cranky and doesn’t know how to relax and leave the other dogs alone. She’s a handfull.

There is a faire up in Fort Collins next weekend, but not sure if I will be up to going, time will tell. If not, the next faire will be TRF in the fall.

Pictures are up in the usual place