Gotta Luvva Great Weekend

This weekend was a blast! I went to Eat the Runt this weekend. It was playing at the Chicago Center for the performing arts. Disclaimer - this play is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. First of all the premise. It is the only play that has been specifically written without the use of any pronouns. It is intended so that any person can play any role, regardless of race or gender. This leads to some non-traditional pairings, etc. In addition, it was quite crude in places. That said, I enjoyed myself immensely. Just a blast. And to top it all off, this girl named Amber that I did theater with in high school was in the play, which was an interesting blast from the past.

That makes 2 high school theater people I have seen in the past month. The other was a guy named Mike that was delivering something to the Museum. I bumped into him in the loading dock (I was dropping off a fed-ex) and he goes "hey did you go to H-F" I was a little surprise because I hadn't recognized him until he said something, and it wasn't like we were standing around waiting, but rather just passing by one another. I guess I don't look much different. I'm not sure if that is good or bad...

On Saturday I went to see the Red Stick Ramblers - a Louisiana bayou band that plays a little jazz, blues and zydeco all in one. They were great I don't think there was a song I didn't like and I loved the Main Street Blues (the link is to nice clip of the song.) Or there's more music on their MySpace Page.



The opening act is a Chicago based Gypsy-Jazz band that was also fabulous. Though in general I am more fond of groups that include vocals along with the instrumentals.

On Sunday I spent the whole day reading the first two books of a new vampire-romance series called the Twilight Saga. Swoon. Now I just need to borrow book 3 from my mum.