pop culture saturday!

this afternoon jodi and emily and i went to see broken flowers, which i liked a lot (bill murray is the master of the middleaged existential-angst-ridden character, and all the women were great), but which had a few too many shots of the left car mirror reflecting scenery for my tastes.

then tonight was the pipe reunion show!! christina and i arrived just as the first band was finishing, which meant we were just in time to rock out to the nein! i hadn't seen them live since they added the 4th guy, and the change was really incredible. their sound has evolved so much in the last year or so and they put on really an amazing show tonight.

then, pipe!!! totally adorable! ron had the setlist written on his shirt! and he's such a cute performer, all dancing around the stage shaking his hiney. we were right up front so were showered with beer as empty cans flew overhead (i caught one accidentally when ron threw it back into the crowd)--at least until the moshing started and some creepy dudes decided moshing was a great excuse to press really close up against us, and put their hands on our shoulders, and try to talk to us, and we kept edging away and finally fled to the back. thank goodness for the tvs broadcasting the action on stage! of course mostly we were talking to people, but that did not prevent us from rocking out. and it was so nice to see lots of my favorite people there!

and then when i came home one of those tiny frogs was on my front door! christina said maybe it was good luck and i wanted to take a picture of it, but was afraid it would hop inside my house if i opened the door again. silly frog.

if anyone reading this has pictures of the show, can you send me some? at first i was sorry i didn't bring my camera, but during the showers of beer i was mostly relieved it was safe at home. :)