September 2011
22 posts
Road trip
Last week my sister flew in from Florida so we could take a little trip. I stocked my console with gummi bears, swooped into the arrivals area at the Indianapolis International Airport, threw her and her polka-dot luggage in the car, and immediately set southward to Tennessee. We planned a quick jaunt back to our homeland in honor of Katy’s 26th birthday, and really didn’t have an...
First visit to Third Man
The next morning I woke up to a cold hotel room, a headache, and the realization that I had left my favorite scarf at the bar. It was no matter, though, because I had been charged with the task of finding a place to have brunch. My reconnaissance proved unfruitful, so we hiked back to the car and took off towards midtown. Another parallel parking success, and an egg-white omelette later, we...
Delorean optional
Hendersonville, Tennessee was our next stop. We moved there when I was twelve years old (Katy was ten), into a 1960-built Braxton Dixon home on Country Club Drive. It’s currently for sale, so we were able to peek in all of the windows and trapse through the yard like we did when we were kids. We walked a lap around the old neighborhood, reminisced, and then put a call in to our second...
Homeward bound
Surprisingly, Katy woke up without a hangover. I had expected a slow-moving morning full of quietness and requests for greasy food. We showered, packed up, and made it out of the building in record time, however. Today was the day that we headed waaaaaay back, back to the tiny town where we went to elementary school, where we lived when our parents divorced, where we had no cable and played...
Wilco will love you, baby.
The set list from the first stop of Wilco’s “Whole Love” tour last night in Indianapolis, IN:
1. Art Of Almost
2. I Might
3. Misunderstood
4. At Least That’s What She Said
5. Bull Black Nova
6. In A Future Age
7. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
8. Handshake Drugs
9. War On War
10. Born Alone
11. You Are My Face
12. Impossible Germany
13. Via Chicago
14....
