We got Kids in the Hall tickets! We weren't really planning to go. We wanted to get tickets go see Flight of the Conchords, who are in Chicago on May 14th, but they sold out in presale, I think; we failed utterly. Jim went online looking for tickets from a broker and failed to find anything for less than about $180 per ticket. Then he says, "Hey, here's Kids in the Hall tickets for face value!" So we bought them. The month of May will be bringing teh funny: We are going to see Jonathan Coulton on May 3rd, which I think will make our 4th time seeing him, and now the Kids in the Hall on May 29th.
Other shows we've been to in the last year or so:
Josh Joplin (with Garrison Starr opening) -- I really liked Garrison Starr live (I think I described her as Amy Ray meets Kelly Clarkson, which totally worked, believe it or not), so I bought a couple of her albums, only to find that she was better live than recorded. Josh Joplin was dressed as a beatnik (with a kerchief! seriously!) and was sort of a spaz live, but very good nonetheless.
Michael Penn (with The Last Town Chorus opening) -- Michael Penn is one of those singers who sounds effortlessly perfect live. He was clearly very uncomfortable with the between-song banter thing, which I thought was funny given how many years he's been at this. He instead solicited banter, recipes, old wives' tales, and political discourse from the audience.
The Decemberists (with Laura Veirs opening) -- we went to the "The Short of It" night from their "The Long and the Short of It" Tour, where they were planning to do all their really long epic songs the first night and then their shorter songs the second. It was a great show, but they cancelled all of the rest of the tour right after we saw them.
Jonathan Coulton with Paul and Storm (several times) -- Because we love them utterly. Jim got to go up on stage at the last show to do the "Message Redacted" voice for "Chiron Beta Prime," which he was very pleased with. Ranked up there with his participation in Penn & Teller's bullet catch when we saw them in Vegas.
Julia Sweeney, "Letting Go of God" -- I really can't say enough about how good this show was -- hilarious and thought-provoking and touching. Good especially if you are an atheist but I think even an open-minded religious person would appreciate it. Julia actually has a lot of affection for the church in spite of her beliefs. She's coming out with a DVD of this show at some point, which I can't wait for.
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I loved Johnathan Coulton when we went to see them with the Robertsons. I need to get one of his T-shirts that says "What's with all the screaming?"
Paul and Storm were good as the opening act for that show, but they have lost something since DaVinci's Notebook broke up in my opinion.
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