pritzker pavillion

long, boring day at work today. so slow. grrr. and i was so impatient. after work, ch, jack and i went to our fave dive under the el tracks, boni vino. we had drinks and pizza, then jack went home and ch and i went to millenium park. to hear the first pop concert in prizker pavillion! it was that lovely "isn't it fucking awesome we live in such a beautiful big city" sort of evening. johnny b and his current boy had staked out good blanket space for us- we were still pretty far from the stage, though. the ditty bops were a fun opener- they sang 2 or 3 songs i knew, though not the one i was hoping for, sister kate. we ate johnny b's sesame sweets and waited for tori to come out.

ch is obsessed with tori amos, so any tori i know (beyond little earthquakes) is through him. he just text messaged me the set list, so i can be like a real tori blogger:
original sinsuality (ch and i both called this one for the opener)
crucify (horray! i could sing along- very taffy streched out pauses, but she turned the harsh bridge into such prettytori)
sugar
sleeps with butterflies (a winner from the new album)
?apollo's frock?
silent all these years (more little earthqakes? how cool! unexceptional arrangement)
god/ running up that hill (OH MY GOD! one of the only kate bush songs i know! what a fabulous medley!)
blower's daughter
the rose
past the mission (this one was good, but the concert went downhill from here...)
barrons of...
putting the damage on
carbon
beekeeper (AGONY! it was HOURS long. painful, disodant, dischordant, SOMEBODY unplug her organ! she should not be ALLOWED! give her a harpsichord, anything to end the misery!)
encore:
bells for her
black dove (more organness. we decided it was for crowd control, all but the die hards couldn't stand it and left much earlier.)
second encore:
amber waves (now this is what we're talking about! much better!)
tear in your hand (can you think of a better closer? well, BESIDES martha's foolish ginger? i can't, either)

during past the mission, the fireworks from navy pier started going off. it was almost surreal. there's tori, there's the fireworks through the steel web over the grass, us telling jokes to each other on the lawn. the sound was superb. much better than you have any right to expect at an outdoor venue, in fact, probably better than most indoor places.

the problem with the day was i left my handy at home this morning. so i was away from communication for 16 hrs. i missed laura! when i got home i learned i also missed my bank, my mother, amy, jen and christopher. that many people don't normally call me in a week! so i have lots to catch up on tomorrow.

NO! I WILL NOT DO ANYTHING TOMORROW UNTIL MY DRAWINGS ARE DONE! SERIOUSLY!!