James’ band Venice is Sinking played at Kathleen’s event she organized at the Woodruff Arts Center on Thursday. They were good as usual. My parents came out because they liked them from our wedding so much.

Also, Brent brought an old friend of ours who was a foreign exchange student from Sweden when we were in high school. It was really great to see Johan again. He’s really a very nice guy, and just fun to hang out with.

I got the image from this guy’s site who was at a lot of the shows taking pictures:

http://www.joshdweiss.com/photoblog/2009/06/18/venice-is-sinking-woodruff/

On Sunday (6/14), Kathleen and I went to the Earl to see St. Vincent. It was great, because we had been exhausted from biking around town all day and kickball practice, and we got there right as she was about to go on, which was early for a headline at the Earl.  She had requested it to be a non-smoking event, which is awesome since you usually can’t go to the Earl without coming home wreaking of smoke.

She was really good again. This album seems to be a lot heavier than the last though.

My parents took Kathleen and I to see Jersey Boys at the Fox on Saturday.  It’s the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. It was really good, and filled in a lot of the history of the group that I didn’t really know much about.

On Saturday night, Kathleen, Michael, and I went to see Cinematic Titanic at the Alliance Theatre.

It was basically everything I’d hoped it would be, essentially MST3K: live. The movie was “Danger on Tiki Island,” which was perfectly awful and great riffing material for Joel and the gang.

We also ate at Soul Vegitarian for the first time ever, even though we’ve lived across the street from it for two years now. It was some pretty darn good food.

On Wednesday, Kathleen and I went to see the Alliance Theatre put on the play “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris”

It was a musical, but felt more modern than most musicals I’ve seen. It was humourus, but also sad at times. I liked it quite a bit.

It was only four people in the show, and they had a jazz band on stage through the whole show providing the music.