Thanks to CK for driving these all the way down to me today
Pearl Jam is an American treasure, and we must protect them with our lives. Cobain, Weiland, Cornell, Hoon, Staley, all gone. Never again will there be a show from Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Blind Melon or Alice in Chains. Therefore, every chance we get to see Pearl Jam we have to take it…
— Tom Lord, Pulltab Sports
That was fun – been awhile since I crossed a movie off the list (and I wish I had gone to a Bowie concert)
A few more from a hot, hot day at the fair
(longer writeup coming soon)
It was nice to finally cross a band off the bucket list, especially since the last time we had tickets to Duran Duran we were *this* close to seeing them at Treasure Island before the skies opened up and everyone had to evacuate. We love seeing shows at the Grandstand, but I think I’ll need to get a foundation membership to ever have a chance at close seats again (we were in section J, row 18 for this show, which I bought right when they went on sale).
Both the Ross Raihala and Jon Bream reviews were positive and also reflected our view that Nile Rodgers and Chic were amazing and probably should’ve been more prominent on the bill. I’m not really sure why Bastille was there at all, to be honest. I called them the UK Magic Dragons, while Ross used “Big Lots Coldplay.” In any case, Chic busting out Le Freak right out of the gate caused many of the 12,816 fans to miss out on one of the highlights of the evening (to say nothing about Good Times and the cover of Rapper’s Delight).
As for Simon (the name’s Bon, Simon Le Bon), Nick and the Taylors (John and Roger – who were also in Power Station with Robert Palmer and Tony Thompson of Chic), it was great to finally see them live and in person. I’m not really a fan of their latest album Future Past (this was officially the Future Past Tour), but the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees played all the big hits (set list below). Looks like they play the exact same songs every night on this tour, but we didn’t think they were going to finish before the curfew. We stayed in our seats for the entire fireworks show, which was fun since there haven’t been a lot of fireworks post-pandemic…
Setlist of the August 31, 2023 Minnesota show (from setlist.fm):
- Night Boat
- The Wild Boys
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- A View to a Kill
- Notorious
- GIVE IT ALL UP
- Lonely in Your Nightmare / Super Freak
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- ANNIVERSARY
- Friends of Mine
- Careless Memories
- Ordinary World
- Come Undone
- Planet Earth
- White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
- The Reflex
- Girls on Film / Acceptable in the 80’s
- —
- ENCORE:
- —
- Save a Prayer
- Rio
The Bloomington location just served me the best version of lemon and Peking chicken with noodles – perfection 💯
Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say “let me tell you something” and “I just wanna say.” Well, you’re dead now, so shut up…
— Grim Reaper
Finished my third eight mile long run this morning and kept the average pace under 11 for the second time in this training cycle (10:44). Slow and steady with no walk breaks is fine with me right now. On my bike ride two days ago, I made it up the giant hill (200+ ft) with no stop breaks, so seem to be making overall fitness progress. Only 29 days to race day!
The trees have been tricked several times this year, but now they can officially begin to change 🍁
Six birthdays we’ve missed now, but always in our hearts (today would’ve been 79 candles on the 🎂)
Just finished season 5 of What We Do in the Shadows (so fun!) and watched the first episode of Disenchantment S5 (out today – love that Matt Berry voices the pig). Also watching Futurama S11, Only Murders in the Building S3, Reservation Dogs S3 and Justified: City Primeval. Looking forward to The Morning Show S3 (Sept 13), Survivor S45 (Sept 27) and Fargo S5 (Nov 21).
Couldn’t believe they busted out “Le Freak” right out of the gate (not to mention Rapper’s Delight at the end). Oh, and the David Bowie 💜
Haven’t tried many new things this year at the fair, but this one from LuLu’s Public House is a winner
Thinking iPhone 15 Pro Max this time (if the camera rumors are true). Would also go for an Apple Watch Ultra 2 if that’s released. Need to do something about my semi-broken AirPods too…
199th in the world after finishing so late in the day seems highly suspect #TwoDots
Wire-to-wire winner from The Minikahda Club shoots 67-68-136 (-4) to win the Minnesota PGA Professional Championship @ The Wilderness at Fortune Bay. Very fun to see so many old Tapemark people the last two days…