swingchickie | happy friday!

last night i took jack to see "unwigged and unplugged" -- it's christopher guest, michael mckean and harry shearer touring with unplugged versions of their songs from "spinal tap" and "a mighty wind". it was awesome. the music itself was great, and the guys are much better musicians than i'd realized (and you haven't lived until you've seen a bluegrass rendition of the rolling stones' "start me up")... but some of the best stuff came in between. they showed clips of tv gigs they'd all had when they were younger, the first appearance of spinal tap 5 years before the movie, and did a dramatic reading of the NBC censor's notes from the first time spinal tap was going to be shown on network TV (the notes were several pages long and said things like "40 minutes in - song 'sex farm woman' - remove entire song"). really, really fun show.

and now, tonight is OUR show! jack took a vacation day today to get the house ready for the mark erelli concert... eeeEEEeee!

in other great news -- i got an apologetic voicemail from my landscaper yesterday, promising that my work would be done next week. cross your fingers.