Fort Reno #1 and miscellaneous

I have too many topics on which to write posts and not enough time to write them all, so here are a few...

Fort Reno concert, Monday the 11th. First let me talk about the Fort Reno concerts in general. Dischord Records sponsors a free concert series every summer at Fort Reno. Every Monday and Thursday! How cool is that? Plus it's only 3 blocks away from my metro stop! I love the whole idea, and I can't believe it happens twice a week, and it's free! Also, if you haven't been, Fort Reno is a really cool park with a lot of open space and a cool old fort. A+++ WOULD DO BUSINESS WITH AGAIN

Now the bands that were there on Monday are a different story. Actually, we only stayed for the first bad. I mean band. Wait, no I really do mean bad. The shows start at 7:15 and end at 9:30 but since we had a 40 minute walk to get home, we checked out at 8:15, shortly after the second band went on. The first band, Caution Curves (what a horrible name, but more on that later), was only marginally a band. One girl played the drums, one girl held a guitar (she might have played a couple notes, I can't remember) and one girl sat at a laptop. Now don't go thinking "Oh, cool. Computer music, like Kraftwerk or something." because it wasn't. What came out of the laptop was noise. I can't think of a better description. And it must be hard to drum along with noise since the drummer was totally disconnected with everything else. It was like free jazz with all of the freedom and none of the jazz. I warned Brickbaby that this is what happens when you take too many drugs while going to art school. I think the message got through to him since he was actually scared by the "band" a couple of times. Now back to the name: Caution Curves. This has led the Brickwife and I to develop a mathematical axiom relating band names and music quality:

Now this doesn't always apply. For instance, Pearl Jam is a terrible name, but their music isn't nearly that bad. I'm sure there are other exceptions, too. I just don't want to think of any more.
Final Notes from Monday night:

Number of animal noises produced by Caution Curves' lead "singer": 2

Number of hipster kids in too-tight ironic t-shirts: >50

Number of songs in which CC's lead singer moaned "Lassie come home": At least 1, it may have been two or three.

Only band that should be allowed to use a flute: Jethro Tull


Now, I was going to write a post about Moses Lake, WA. But I don't really have time, so I'll just provide the link to the newspaper story. This a perfect snapshot of what is cool in Moses Lake. Note that the protagonist has a child with Danger for a middle name. Get it? Danger is his middle name. I am so glad we left that place. For more Moses Lake related entertainment, just browse the Columbia Basin Herald website for a while. The writing is atrocious.