Geez. My brain is like on stimulus overload.
Thursday I went down to the Pioneer Square art walk, cause a friend’s friend was showing some of his stuff there. It wasn’t the most amazing show ever, although it did make me go “hmm. I should really start painting things again. it’d be fun to have a show.” Some of the other shows were pretty neat though. One place was full of quirky animation type stuff. There were tons of people at the art walk though, which seemed weird to me. I dunno, it makes me happy that so many people are into looking at art and stuff, but there’s just something weird about the art appreciation crowd. A little to high class for me.
And then Friday to Monday was Bumbershoot. 4 whole days of art, music, and overpriced food. I think it just about killed me, in a good way. I mean, it’s just A LOT to take in at once. This is what we mainly ended up going to, but there were also buskers, hawaiian things, poster & art exhibits and booths and stuff.
Friday: The Garfield Highschool Jazz Combo, Cuchata, Help Wanted (film), John Vanderslice, and M.Ward.
I really liked Cuchata. They were like Afro-Latin-Caribbean goodness. I seem to be into that sorta stuff lately. Dunno why. John Vanderslice wasn’t actually part of Bumbershoot, but he was doing a free in-store at Easy Street records a few blocks away so we checked him out which was really
Saturday: Citizen Cope, Sydney Snoop (mime), IQU, and The Tiptons Sax Quartet.
IQU was definately the highlight of Saturday. They played in the EMP Sky Church, which is just like full of pretty lights and colors and awesome stuff for shows. It was a little weird between songs, I guess I’m just use to more of a flow, which is hard when you’ve got to switch from a bunch of electronic things and such. It was also cool to actually see someone use a Theremin. Apparently Death Cab for Cutie also played Saturday night under the name The Transatlantic Orchestra. It would have been cool to see thier secret show, but I’m not really a huge Death Cab fan anyways, despite (or is it because of) my love for the Postal Service.
Sunday: Math and Physics Club, Swampdweller, The Posies, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Juana Molina, and Elvis Costello.
Sunday was lots of rain, and also the day for checking out the art exhibits. Juana Molina was pretty cool, despite all the technical difficulties they had, although in a way it made it even cooler, cause for the first part of the show she was basicly just improvising. Elivis Costello was a bit too slow for me, I dunno, it was a little weird that it was just him on guitar in that huge stadium.
Monday: The Decemberists, Earlimart, Brazilian Girls, Karen Ann, Tegan and Sara, and Iggy & The Stooges.
Now I actually wish we had gone to
So yeah, it’s been an exhaustingly eventful weekend. Expensive, but I think pretty worth it considering how many bands we saw. It was really the overpriced food that killed me cause I’m always hungry. That and the fact that I bought stuff that I didn’t really need (a cute necklace & posters). Okay, that was way longer than it needed to be.
Oh, and check out the photo set if you want.