Friday after work I went to straight to Amy’s house. We went to the Los Angeles County fair. It was a lot like the Ohio State fair, except bigger. She bought tickets to see Live a few days before. It was a little weird because they ended up performing on a horse racing track. Our seats turned out to be pretty good though, not too far from the stage. The band played four or five songs off of Throwing Copper, two or three from Secret Samadi, one or two from Mental Jewelry, a few (that I recognized from radio play) from their new album, and some extras that must have come out on the albums in between. It was good that the majority of the songs were older, otherwise I would not have been familiar with them. They played well, Ed sang well (albeit dancing around like a member of the village people). The lead guitar player had a collection of some nice guitars. I saw a sunburst Les Paul, a flame burst Les Paul, a grey strat (like Clapton), and a sonic blue jazzmaster (although it could have been a jaguar…I couldn’t tell from our distance). I also saw that the cooler at the back of the stage used to keep the band’s drinks was ….MY COOLER!! The same blue and white combo that mom bought for me before I moved-and did double duty as a couch these past few weeks. The band’s music was together, but their clothing choices were all very disjointed. Ed thought he was either Maynard or the cowboy from the village people depending on the mood of the song. The lead guitarist wore a suit and thought he was in Cheap Trick. The rythym guitarist thought he was in (put any lame pop band that wears “cool” t-shirts and jeans’ name here). The bassist had flannel, ripped jeans, long scraggly hair, and a beard…he must have thought his singer was Ed Vedder, not Ed Kowalczyk. All in all it was a good show. I thought Amy wasn’t into it at first, then she told me during the wait before the encore that she had been needing to go to the bathroom for the past hour.
This morning I went to that little armenian fruit market again…I’m still amazed at that place. Red bell peppers for 59 cents a pound…that is per pound…not each! They also had a really fresh selection of dried fruits, peaches, and tomatos.
