louise on the left (coast)

Bret and Jemaine The duo rocked out at the 'Flight of the Conchords' Concert at The Greek ( Not Roman) Theater up in Los Angeles last night. The deadpan, dorky duo, The Flight of the Conchords , proved themselves to be as funny, if not funnier in person, and much, much better musicians than I ever expected. They're really great. I thought the show really came alive when they literally moved for their sets. Like, got up and moved about the stage, or reacted to unexpected antics from the audience. The energy level was a bit more sedate than I anticipated. If I have any one complaint it is that they seemed a bit too nailed to the spots where they played. Since the joke was often extremely deadpan, and often lost in a New Zealand accent, I fear that by not providing visual explanations in order to underscore their "irony," that a bit of the humor became lost in translation. Very good musicians and vocalists, though. Really. They mocked all of us Americans, for

Happily, I haven't had much time to post lately as my days have been filled with happy family times celebrating events such as birthdays and anniversaries. But, anyone who really knows me would have to know that I must have been doing something important yesterday since it meant missing the protest against Sarah Palin in Costa Mesa. Well, I was, I was going on a date with Pete. (Today is his actual bday and our anniversary is 10/8, so we took last night as a chance to celebrate both events by hiring a sitter (only $70.00) and have some "grown up time" of our own. Pete had tickets for us to go up to The Greek Amphitheater in Griffith Park and see (and he, to review ) Swell Season (Glen Hansard and pianist-singer Markéta Irglová ) and Iron And Wine . So, he and I left home, early yesterday to have a nice dinner in Los Feliz before taking in a night of folk rock under the stars. We had dinner at a very nice Mexican restaurant, Mexico City , which had some of delicious c