A Danceable Solution
Now Playing: The Kinks--"Two Sisters"
Nary nothing of note...

The Saturday Actual Birds show at the Halfass was pretty good; Dustin was backed by a great assemblage of musicians including Annie, Scott DeRoche, and Aleise Barnett. There was a fun vibe to the show that was tragically wasted on me; I think I need to take serious naps before those shows so I won't be too tired. I stayed through part of Liz Janes' set, which was pretty good, although long, slow, and sad for my current taste. Bed never looked so great.

More to my speed was the Mike Waite show at the Old Town Sunday night. Waite, it turns out, is linked to two sets of friends, which goes to illuminate Ann Arbor's relative smallness. Unlike Misty's show earlier, the audience seemed oddly segmented and segregated, although that may have been due to my position at the bar rather than a table or booth. Mike Waite ripped through a set of boisterous folk that occasionally featured John Churchville on drums or my illustrious Planned Parenthood volunteer boss, Jessica Ross (who told me about the show), on those sticks that one occasionally "clicks" together and whose name escapes me. I spent most of the evening commiserating with Matt, Jess' husband who's generally tremendous fun. That night wasn't all that much different, except that I think we both had a little too much. Even so, it was a lot of fun; I ran into Greg, chatted with Jess and Matt's friend Eric, and re-met Nora, Mike Waite's sister and a friend of Jess' that I've met several times in several different places... "re-met"'s a weird concept, but very useful for somewhere like Ann Arbor.