Isn't She Lovely?
We went to Concord (read: Middle of nowhere) last night to see Stevie Wonder. Sold out show with a fairly mixed crowd, which is always cool. Dude is old! Stevie was pulled onto stage 45 minutes late, when he proceeded to tell a very, very long story about how he was going to quit when his mom died. But, he decided to take her advice and "get on stage and do his thing". Dude talked forever and I was tempted to shout out "Free bird!" Would have amused me -- maybe not so much the other people on the hill.
He played for over 2 hours and covered almost all his hits. It was a little disappointing for him to spend 10 minutes jamming on a song nobody knew, but then 2 minutes to quickly run through hits like "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" (whatever it's called). Interpol will bring the rock in October and Stevie will be long forgotten.
I finally caved in and bought Civilization IV, along with the Beyond the Sword expansion via Steam Saturday night. I then proceeded to enjoy my entire Sunday on a multiplayer game with a friend. Sweet Jesus Sid Meier should be put in jail for making a Civ game multiplayer. It's perfection. If Civ was addictive and captivating before, it's even more so now. Get a few friends on Skype and just go to town. I'm tempted to play it on my second monitor at work, but all work progress would completely cease...and now is not the time to be slacking off.
We went to Foreign Cinema Friday night for my birthday. Not our best trip there (service was weak!), but still one of my favorite restaurants/dining experiences in the city. Just a fantastic place all around.
That reminds me -- Beth and I decided to start a blog to discuss our favorite restaurants and city experiences. It needs content and some visual love -- hopefully there will be time for that this week. We'll try to keep the content conversational and fast, which is why I think it deserves existence. So many blogs just ramble...like this one. Time for work and coffee.
(posted by grant at 8/27/2007)
