In an effort to improve my journalistic aspirations, Ie started typing xanga on MS word before posting.  But I only do minimal proofreading and spellchecking to allow the right brain to trample the free flowing spirit of the blog.

 

A few days ago, I typed that the two blogs in two days was a thing of the past.Well today, I reminiscing of two days, two concerts.Prince on Tuesday night, read below.Last night was a completely different ordeal.The trigger to buy Central Park Summerstage events was the visual of clear skies, hot weather and awesome music under the stars (a little niche of granola smack dab in the middle of the city).

 

My entourage and I were not prepared for a concert in the elements.Ben Folds?set was pretty much a New York City Broadway show remake of Peter Pan Indian Rain Dance.Not taking away his skills as a piano player, the man needs the ive?A couple of songs here and there are good with just him and a piano, but with his mediocre voice and upbeat melodies, the band would only enhance his songs and fill out the tunes.Not to mention, piano sets are best played in auditoriums, ballrooms, enclosed acoustical havens.Outdoors, youe definitely needing bass and percussion and a loud Gibson to blow the trees away.

 

Someone tell me why Rufus Wainright was posted on the ticket as the main act, cuz he wasn and never deserves to be.Dear Mi55Mango, He sucks, period.His set brought on the showers so up went the umbrella, wet sock from the puddles in the Astroturf (concert wasn on the lawn), and cold cold, oh so cold.I don even want to post on this guy.Midway through his show, I was beginning to feel suicidal.He brought his mom on, sang somewhere over the rainbow (oh yea, he did a duet of areless whispers?with folds earlier) and did body worship at the same time.His line of the night ay and straights can get a long??NO THANKS RUFUS.YOU SUCK.

 

The crowd seemed pretty resilient through one high school Broadway soundtrack and another gay man mourning over an ex boyfriend or something (he did mention that he was voting Kerry, which makes me not like Kerry even more).But good bands shall prevail and push away that stormy clout of wet annoyance.Guster baby, guster.The last time I saw them was last August and I couldn tell you why they are so good.Good clean sets of original music.Easy tracks, simple melodies, awesome harmonies a performing energy that ignites their audience, almost makes it too easy to strive for stardom ehh?Esther ?I tried calling you during ither way?and a fa?Alvin, if you still read this ?called you during emons? I almost scared to really remake this track because Ie heard it twice and they really do quite a number on this song. A good set.

 

 

Post concert rituals: KTOWN, weird ehh?

After incubus, went to baden.

After prince, players.

After guster, kang suh.

 

Beebong comment: tell me how you felt when he played 'purple rain' and let me know if people around you felt their lives changing into one big nostalgic mess.

 

Response: On the Broadway show tangent: If youe ever seen ats? its like at the end when the old cat takes the female cat (the one that sings emory? on to the rising saucer with smoke coming out underneath as if theye transcended the inane and moved to onto something better (case sensitive: a combination of reflecting upon the past of golden youth hen the song came out ?and the experience of life gained since then)

 

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Ie gone to the gym after drinking before but Ie never done this.