Lots of music related fun going on!
Last week I saw the Whirling Dervishes at Millennium Park. My friend told me to go see them and I had to read up on Sufism while I was at work. It’s kind of strange that the whole performance is really a prayer ritual and it’s interesting enough that people outside of their culture and religion come to watch it. Maybe if Catholic mass were this interesting, I would still go to church. :)
This morning I bought tickets to Grinderman, Nick Cave’s new band(side project?). They’re only playing a few dates in the U.S. so I’m really excited to see them. I like the upper-middle age white man music (Nick Cave, Morrissey, Tom Waits) almost as much as I like the upper-middle age white man movies (Weatherman, American Beauty, Life Aquatic). I swear I don’t have father issues.
Then tonight I went to Taste Of Randolph street fair and saw the Smoking Popes. Maybe my memory is off but weren’t they a little punk? They sounded much more poppy than I had remembered. Or maybe I had no idea what punk was when I listened to them in high school. When I saw Local H at a street fair last year, they sounded just like I had remembered. Not so much this time, Smoking Popes.