In 1969, at a hospital in South Carolina, all of its black nurses went on strike in hopes of receiving equal pay and treatment as the white nurses. Many people (who now, you may know from street names here in Atlanta), including Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, and Ralph Abernathy, went to SC to assist in the movement. Andrew Young met with the only person in the hospital that would talk with him, and resolved an end to the strike. And that person was the new vice president at the medical college, appointed just days before the strike took place, and who was father to a boy who would become the greatest American alive, Stephen Colbert. And now you know… the rest of the story (sorry, I couldn’t help it).
I just found this to be really interesting, and upon looking up facts about Colbert, I found out another strangely interesting detail. Stephen Colbert’s father and two of his brothers died in a plane crash… on September 11th, 1974… very strange…
I love three day weekends. And it snowed! We called up Liz on Saturday and took some more engagement pictures in the snow (see my photography section, or flickr page). The we went out for a fancy dinner to celebrate our engagement anniversary.
On Sunday we went down to Newnan for Brent’s birthday and played Scene it – Music Trivia. Also, Eric and Kelly brought over their new dog. Which proved to me that not all Dachshunds are loud and yappy (sorry mom).
Then on Monday we sat around and did absolutely nothing. We played some video games, and I worked on my website. I did some more work to my photography section by adding some sweet AJAX and using the flickr API to make a filter of tags. So, check it out.
A mix between a Q&A and a very loosely defined set list, this was a completely different experience from the last time I saw Yo La Tengo five or six years ago. It was very stripped down and mellow as opposed to more orchestrated, and mellow. And this time, they only played one song that had been released in the last ten years, a track from “I am not afraid of you…,” and only one song that Kathleen knew, Sugarcube. But that’s not surprising seeing as though they’ve been a band for basically as long as I’ve been alive. So it was a very interesting set, featuring a lot of b-sides, covers, and other rarities. The following clip was taken by kathleen:
The audience interaction wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Last time they hardly talked between songs, but this time they answered questions and told a lot of stories, which were both enlightening and hilarious.
Kurt Wagner opened for them, and for another veteran group, I’m only familiar with a handful of Lambchop songs, but I really enjoyed his set as well.
