I Feel It All

Friday night, Mariah and I took the kids to Bloomington to see Feist in concert.  It was part of Kourtney's birthday present.  Kourtney got to invite one of her friends, C, to go with us.  Mariah and I had both taken the day off.  After we got the kids off to school, we went to breakfast together.  Pretty cool.  We then headed to 100.7 Mix FM Radio Station to pick up the $45 gift card that Kourtney had won the night before.  On our way, we had seen this building that had pretty much burned to the ground on 3rd street.  Lots of fire trucks, state troopers, local cops, local TV coverage and what appeared to be secret service personnel.  Turns out that it was the Democratic headquarters here in town for Hillary Clinton.  Ironically, Bill Clinton made a stop by the burned remains that morning on his way to Clinton Indiana.  Interesting.

Mariah and I got Kourtney out of school just a tad early and we headed for Bloomington shortly after Austin got off the bus.  It's a good thing we got an early start, because it was the kick off night for the Little 500 and also Barack Obama had visited IU earlier in the day. Busy there.  The weather was so perfect. 

Hayden opened up for Feist.  He was good.  Not too exciting.  But Feist's show was awesome.  She has such a soft, pretty voice.  The IU Auditorium is actually a pretty neat building.  Not sure what the first song was that she had done.  It was either newly written or a cover.  The stage arrangement was pretty simple.  All just instruments, mics and a big backdrop. It's interesting that the "behind-the-scenes" special effects that were presented on the back-drop weren't really all that behind-the-scenes as two artists portrayed several special effects with stencils, templates, water paints, lights, "shadow puppetting", etc., right on stage with the band.  She was very interactive with the crowd.  At one point she had different parts of the audience singing different tones.  Balcony, Orchestra, etc.  Then as she had the audience going, she went into "I'm Sorry".  Really made the hair stand up on you.  She played almost every song off of  The Reminder, and about 5 songs from Let It Die.  All very good.  I hope that one of her shows can get recorded for a live DVD. 

Kourtney's soccer team won their season opener today in a cold, rainy, sleety, windy day.  Temperatures were in the low 70s last night, but today, it was 43 w/ 15 to 20 mph winds.  Talk about cold.  Her team won 5-2.  Some pretty amazing plays by the team.  And to be the first game of the season, the chemistry was really there as they didn't seem a bit rusty at all.