i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

you don't need a professional grade camera to take good concert shots. for the record. these were all shot with my nikon coolpix L3, no flash. (you just need to know how to use your camera, and the next time someone with a pro-grade dSLR asks me to set their ISO for them, i'm gonna take their camera.)






















the rest of the set is here. (and there are photos from the state fair here, if your desires to look at photos aren't satisfied.)

steel train is just so much fun in concert, and they were even better as headliners than they were opening for the hushies back in august, and they were really good then. embarrassingly, after they finished their set, the bassist grabbed me as i walking past him on our way out and said, hey, i remember you from the last time we were here, you were wearing that mason jennings t-shirt then, too. and, in fact, i had been wearing my mason jennings t-shirt, i remembered, because i talked about mason with evan then. i thanked jack -- the lead singer -- for playing "women i belong to", which is my favorite track on trampoline, and he gave us very sweaty hugs. holy ghost tent revival -- the local opener, they're from g'boro -- and forgive durden were both a+ enjoyable, and dear in the headlights weren't bad but they were pretty boring. not bad for a sparsely attended tuesday night ten dollar show -- and i would, without a doubt, go see steel train play again wherever and whenever. as long as wherever isn't further than greensboro.

today i am listening to hank iii and enjoying that the office is mostly empty and quiet, downloading bill monroe cds and last night's tv, actually getting some work done. i had an a+ turkey club for lunch and talked about baseball with the bar owner and about short stories with the bartender. i take my zen where i can get it.