Folkin'

First: great big THANK YOUS to housemaid79 and sabriel75 who sent me birthday treats! housemaid79 sent me a card with DOCTOR WHO drawings on it! Girl, your TARDIS is amazing! And sabriel75 sent me a copy of Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak (OMG, I remember this from childhood! I love it!), some candies, and delicious lipgloss. Thank you, love--you are truly amazing. ♥

Last night I attended the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. It was great fun! There were a lot of fantastic acts, and a few "meh, not for me" acts.

The Notable:
♥ THE AVETT BROTHERS!
♥ Vienna Teng with Alex Wong
♥ Anais Mitchell
♥ The Spring Standards

The Meh
♥ Citizen Cope
♥ The Paper Raincoat
♥ Theo Katzman

(I feel like there was another act, but I can't remember...)

More talk of the show to come, but first:

An Open Message to All the Douchebags Who Insisted On Playing With Their Smartphones Throughout the Show:
COMMON COURTESY! Is there an app for that?!

( I Talk About Music )

Tonight, going out for a belated birthday celebration with the girls. As usual, half of the invited guests can't make it/cancelled: it's to be expected when your birthday is in late January and you live in the Frozen North. :P Still, I'm looking forward to a night out: we're going to a new restaurant called Frita Batidos, and it looks delicious!

ETA: Ok, I just made MAJOR edits to this entry. I don't know what the hell I was on when I was writing it. There were major typos everywhere: not to mention several WTF word misplacements that...just made no sense. For example: "late journey" instead of "late January". I don't even know what to call that. 'Typo' seems inadequate for that kind of fail.

Anywho, I had a fun time tonight! Frita Batidos was DELICIOUS: I had a spicy black bean sandwich, churros scented with orange and nutmeg and coated in cinnamon sugar, and a coconut cream batido: basically, a coconut milkshake. YUM!

Then we played pool and went dancing. Good times!