Friday’s show

We went to see the Pat McGee Band at the Birchmere Friday night, with Linda. To my surprise, there’s a very familiar person on keyboard, guitars and vocals – Todd Wright from the Getaway Car!

It was a fantastic show, Todd sounded great and he’s going on tour with them. Saturday night’s show at the Birchmere was sold out as well, but the tour comes back around Thursday, March 4 at the Recher Theatre in Towson, MD. I might make that one.

I’m disappointed at not seeing TGC for a while, but Todd’s gotta get paid – he’s a got a new baby girl.

Michael Tolcher opened and was very good. He was much funkier in person than the mp3s led me to believe. His CD comes out in April, same day as Pat McGee Band.

TGIF

Friday, at last.

This is the first time I’ve actually come into work all week in at least four weeks. Due to bad weather and being under the weather, I worked from home at least on day the last three weeks. I can get a lot more done – no one disturbs me (except two hours of phone calls last Friday) and web surfing isn’t nearly as appealing on dialup. The hour each way commute really sucks – I hope this move happens soon. The only drawback is the interesting work may move to Vancouver, while the boring stuff stays here. Not sure how I feel about that. I like having a dependable, good paying job, especially with a wedding to pay for, but I like being challenged, too.

New CDs

cover The only must buy CD. I really liked her first, and she previewed a number of these songs at last summer’s Wolf Trap show.

cover Oh, Courtney. The last Hole album was great, but the reviews I’ve seen of this haven’t convinced me to get it. First single “Mono” is decent, but I’ll wait to see if there’s anything else.

cover Probably not going to buy this. I was thinking of going to her show at the 9:30, but tix are $75.

New DVDs

cover A must buy, the best season they’ve done (although the last two eps have been good, especially the 100th).

cover Not sure about this, waiting to hear if it’s good or not. Getting all the original voices is good, but Disney has not had the best track record with direct-to-video sequels.

cover Missed this one from last week. New version in widescreen anamorphic with 5.1.

Weekend wrapup

Decent weekend. Chris Whitley was his usual crazed self Friday – I was disappointed they didn’t have either of his new cds available. The bad part of the evening was discovering my tire going flat after the show, due to a horrendous pothole on Lawyers Road. It held air ok for the ride home (and I was able to find my hubcap).

Saturday I was going skiing until the ice on the slopes quashed that idea. I accompanied Jill to the Mall where we met up with one of her cousins, Justin, and his family. We went to the National Museum of American History for lunch, then checked out a couple exhibits (including the new Beatles one, natch). Saturday night, Jill worked, and first I put the spare tire on the car and unclogged the kitchen sink, then went to Sterling Cinema Draft to see Getaway Car. I never knew you could have an office chair mosh pit. A nice place to have a show, the wait staff were great and they had a lot of beers on tap. And it’s 10 minutes from me. Hope they get more good acts.

Sunday, I helped out as a volunteer in the Herndon Festival, working on some contracts for the musicians performing. Caught up on my tv shows and the newspaper, watched some of the Grammys, made some Buffalo wings. Didn’t make it to bed until 1:30, but I was up ’til 3:30 the night before.