T-minus 4 weeks until the braces come off.

Yay! :)

Monday night I attended a concert at the Saenger Theater.

I was blown away by the opening act, a little band called Jukebox the Ghost. Before they began to play, one of them joked that while eating at Denny’s, they got schooled on the correct pronunciation of Mobile (Moh-BEE-uhl. It’s French.) It is a well known fact around these part that how one pronounces the name of my hometown is a valid litmus test for whether they are a native of the area. Dude, Ben Thornewill, killed it on the keyboards. The drummer was excellent. Of course one would reason that any band with the privilege of opening for Ben Folds was probably be pretty good. Listening to the album now, I much prefer the live version of “Hold It In” better live.

Then came the main act. I remember that he opened with “Annie Waits” and ended with…a song whose title has many asterisks, as listed in the iTunes store.
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I’m trying to draw more and eventually work up to doing urban sketches.

Both of these drawing were done last month while taking notes. I found that drawing and taking notes isn’t much different than writing and taking notes.