Last year I had the chance to see Death Cab for Cutie at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, TX. It was a pretty good show, and the room is one of the best ones that I've been to. However, last night I had the privilege to go back to the same friendly room to see Iron and Wine/Calexico. Both bands are very skilled and put on a unique and awesome performance. Calexico had six guys in it, all of which played multiple instruments minus the drummer and bassist. They had a great sound, which consisted of multiple guitar parts, an electric steel guitar, piano, two trumpeters, and some salsa shaking instruments and Mexican yelling. They were a mix between solid indie rock, southwestern folk, and traditional Mexican brands of music.
Iron and Wine had a great performance as well. I've never been to a show where everyone was so quiet. As soon as he started to play, the room became eerily still. I even could hear the system noise in the background, which I would have never expected in a room of hundreds of people drinking. Spork pointed out that this show was an alcohol show, not a weed show--and there is a very big difference between the two. The songs were beautiful, and the guitar playing was the best that I have seen. Calexico came on and played with Iron and Wine and his band, which was the peak of the performances. It was a total of 10 very talented people rocking it out on a great brand of sound.
Yesterday in general was quite good. October weather in Texas is something beautiful and refreshing. I think it is my favorite time of year in this state. Greasy steak burgers and the thickest milkshakes known to man from Steak n’ Shake added to the gratification of the day in general. Steak n’ Shake is apparently an Indiana thing, so on the advice and reference of Ludwhig we went. The shakes are something to die for, literally, since they have the equivalent of 3 gallons of milk in one glass, but they are still quite tasty. You need the shake to offset the large amounts of grease from the steak melt. I think that is why those two work together so well. When you feel yourself getting a little sick, you just dump some more thick dairy shake in there to make it go away: a fun and healthy combo.
Before anything we were able to get to downtown Dallas and hang out around the plaza of the Americas. I love that area of town, even though most everything was closed. However the 11 story tall glass elevators were open, which proved quite entertaining. We were also able to go into the big church there while Saturday night mass was going on. It is very beautiful inside, with high ceilings and stained glass windows everywhere. The Myerson is right there as well, which we stepped in for about 30 seconds to view set up for a very posh and awesome looking Halloween banquet in the foyer area. Although we didn’t do much, it was still great to be in the downtown area of a very large city, and the night on the whole was excellent and fun.
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As a little girl, I was sure that church was as great as all those European cathedrals I heard about so often.
Yeah, I really want to go to an old church like that someday. This one in particular also is nice because they are right next to the Myerson Symphony Center, and charge for parking in their garage... ;-)
that is a cool little church. old european churches are cool too!
This just in from the Steak 'n Shake labs... they've developed a way to distill three cows into one frozen shake glass! Wow! A kick in the stomach, yours for $4.99!