Haha. I stole that spelling of ostentatious from a lawn care truck. Creative. The second week of the job was good - we have a full roster of chilluns for the first session. I had a bit of culture shock trying to communicate with the parents who are mostly Spanish speaking with varying degrees of English skills. It felt a bit like being a student studying in a foreign country all over again! But I'm sure communicating with the kids will be easier and it's motivating me to learn more conversational Spanish. My friend K is going to Costa Rica this summer to do a Spanish immersion program so she can do social work more effectively in California. I think I'll need to do something like that someday soon.
One of very favorite bands the INDIGO GIRLS played in Austin this week. John politely declined my invitation and went to see a play that he'd been wanting to see that I wasn't as keen on. It was sort of neat to go on separate dates alone. The Girls played at Stubbs BBQ, which I thought would just be a tiny BBQ joint, which surprised me. Turns out that Stubbs has a big backyard called the "Dustbowl" that holds about 1000 people. It was a pretty diverse crowd, with couples of all genders and ages and styles and all very nice.
The opening act was Brandi Carlile, who has an amazing soulful voice and great guitar skills. She was flanked by Phil and Tim, tall, lanky twins wearing fedora style hats and similarly tattooed playing guitar. There was also a cellist named Josh who I thought was from the band "Mom" who I heard play at a house party recently, but that guy's name is Joel. I thought later that maybe it was really him and the Indigo Girls got his name wrong. Wouldn't that be terrible? But I think it was just a different skinny cellist.
Then the Indigo Girls came out! They are aging for sure and still look like they did in the 80's but are pleasantly consistent in their performance. They played some classics but new stuff too and of course, they entertained the masses in a sing-a-long fashion, since the entire audience knows all the words. It was so nice! And the Dustbowl is very hot, but these gusts of wind would come up over the stage and combined with some of my favorite music, it was glorious! Very nice time.
http://www.stubbsaustin.com/
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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Isn't Brandi the best?!?! I went to a show up here at the Orpheum...she was amazing! that voice! in fact its funny because while at the show I kept thinking the crowd of fans was reminicent of an indigo girls show.....guess i wasn't the only one that thought that! :)
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