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kayak, guitars, and disney princesses
It's been a while. Stuff is happening. Some I really don't want to talk about and some I do, but can't. Ug.
I have been doing stuff in the last couple weeks. (Go insomnia, time to write a post.)
D. and I went kayaking on the Potomac a couple Saturdays ago. It was the monument tour from Potomac Paddlesports. It was a gorgeous day. On the way there we saw monuments (Ladybird Johnson, Lincoln, Washington, etc.) and planes going into National, and on the way back it was quieter and we saw wildlife (herons! osprey!). Best of both worlds. It was our second trip with this group. I would recommend them, although each time we used a groupon and it was half price. If we go again I think we might just rent our own kayaks.
Last week we saw Rodrigo y Gabriela at Wolf Trap. It was my first time there and the venue was fantastic. I was neutral going into the concert, but D. was really excited.
The opening act was AWESOME. Xavier Rudd, or "the guy who plays multiple instruments at once like didgeridoo and a full drum set, wtf" not to mention bass, harmonica, etc. He played with Izintaba, a South African duo. It was TREMENDOUS.
Rodrigo y Gabriela were also phenomenal. They're Mexican guitarists who were heavily influenced by heavy metal (as well as Latin jazz and folk). They backpacked around Europe for a while playing acoustic versions of rock and metal covers until moving to Dublin. In the current album they have 11 songs, each one influenced by someone different like Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix. We heard the Pink Floyd-influenced one which was pretty cool (and probably a few others I didn't catch as I wasn't recording the set list).
It was like the antithesis of the Adam Lambert concert, stripped down stage, just the two of them coming out in jeans with their guitars. But still the energy level was amazing. Rodrigo led the audience in some advanced clapping (you mean not just on the 1 and the 3? dividing the audience into 3rds? and then leaving us while you do something awesome, eep.)
I don't even like this kind of music, but omg. The set was a tad long (they played for almost 2 hours, is that right? I might be remembering wrong), and it started to get windy and rainy, but still well worth it.
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wavyarms:
Advice for Young Girls from A Cartoon Princesses (you'll laugh...and maybe cry, or wince).
Belle
Arial
(I'm not criticizing anyone who shows kids Disney movies, because, please, they are so much a part o of our culture and of course I loved them as a kid.)
I have been doing stuff in the last couple weeks. (Go insomnia, time to write a post.)
D. and I went kayaking on the Potomac a couple Saturdays ago. It was the monument tour from Potomac Paddlesports. It was a gorgeous day. On the way there we saw monuments (Ladybird Johnson, Lincoln, Washington, etc.) and planes going into National, and on the way back it was quieter and we saw wildlife (herons! osprey!). Best of both worlds. It was our second trip with this group. I would recommend them, although each time we used a groupon and it was half price. If we go again I think we might just rent our own kayaks.
Last week we saw Rodrigo y Gabriela at Wolf Trap. It was my first time there and the venue was fantastic. I was neutral going into the concert, but D. was really excited.
The opening act was AWESOME. Xavier Rudd, or "the guy who plays multiple instruments at once like didgeridoo and a full drum set, wtf" not to mention bass, harmonica, etc. He played with Izintaba, a South African duo. It was TREMENDOUS.
Rodrigo y Gabriela were also phenomenal. They're Mexican guitarists who were heavily influenced by heavy metal (as well as Latin jazz and folk). They backpacked around Europe for a while playing acoustic versions of rock and metal covers until moving to Dublin. In the current album they have 11 songs, each one influenced by someone different like Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix. We heard the Pink Floyd-influenced one which was pretty cool (and probably a few others I didn't catch as I wasn't recording the set list).
It was like the antithesis of the Adam Lambert concert, stripped down stage, just the two of them coming out in jeans with their guitars. But still the energy level was amazing. Rodrigo led the audience in some advanced clapping (you mean not just on the 1 and the 3? dividing the audience into 3rds? and then leaving us while you do something awesome, eep.)
I don't even like this kind of music, but omg. The set was a tad long (they played for almost 2 hours, is that right? I might be remembering wrong), and it started to get windy and rainy, but still well worth it.
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wavyarms:Advice for Young Girls from A Cartoon Princesses (you'll laugh...and maybe cry, or wince).
Belle
Arial
(I'm not criticizing anyone who shows kids Disney movies, because, please, they are so much a part o of our culture and of course I loved them as a kid.)