April 5, 2005

• "I can see your outstreched arms. I just found who I am" (This Day and Age).

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  I had an amazing Monday afternoon-evening-night. Megan and I hopped on the 817 to Sandy and then caught a trax to Salt Lake City to go to the This Day and Age concert at Kilby Court. I don't really think we knew what to expect. In fact, it was somewhat a last minute dicision to go, though it was thouroughly planed (thanks so much Megan). We got off at the Courthouse by the Grand American hotel in a nice part of town and started walking to find Kilby Court. I'm not sure when we noticed it, but at some point we left the nicer part of the city. Now, because it's Salt Lake City we were still safe, but still. It was weird. Dogs were running around everywhere. That's probably why there were signs up for a missing dog (black lab named Teesha). It is also how we found kilby court. This dog started chasing us, and its owner was not far behind him. We asked the owner where Kilby Court was and he gave us a strange look and said, it's the alley behind you. Sure enough, it was the alley behind us. We had been looking for some sort of night club or something, but no, it was just an alley. With a small little shed covered in stickers where bands play.

  After that we made the long trek back to the trax, which we rode to Temple Square. We decided to go tour the Conference Center to see all the paintings. I tell you, it was amazing to see so many Walter Rane originals. The prints just don't do them justice. In life they are so vibrant with light and color that you can't see in prints. I wish I could have spent more time there. Going through the roof was really cool too. There's more symbolism than you would think. It is a remarkable building.

  From there we rushed off on the trax again to get to Kilby Court.  It was raining again so I pulled out the umbrella until we got in the getto part of Salt Lake where I stowed the umbrella in a poser attempt to look cool.  As I told Megan, I had never felt so Mormon.  And, apparently we rushed slightly too much because we were the first ones there, which again emphasized our, as Professer Magelby might say, "naive shelterousity, a sense of wanna-be-ness, or even a feeling of wanting to fit in and trying so hard to do so but not really being able to do so because of a sheltered naiveosity." (sorry, I can't help it.  I just love mimicking the way Professor Magelby talks.  It's so funny.)

  Being there early in many ways was a good things though.  It let us have a nice conversation with Jeff, lead singer of This Day and Age.  We got our picture taken with him, and even got him to autograph a t-shirt for me.  It was pretty sweet.  The sad thing was, though, that maybe 15 people showed up for the show.  Granted, it was a Monday Night in Salt Lake City at an obscure venue, but still. He said that it was probably his smalled audience yet, but that it was ok because they had been having a sucessful tour.  I can't wait to see them with Jupiter Sunrise and June at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago.  It will be such a good show.

  When This Day and Age took the stage I was so excited.  They played amazing music.  I'm telling you, they're going to be big.  The other bands that played sucked.  Anyways.  We started walking back in the hail when we realized we had missed our bus home.  Luckily there was one more bus home.  We called Bert and left a message telling him we'd be an hour later (he didn't get the message), and then we walked to the McDonalds that seemed a lot closer than it was.  We got some food and rode the trax back to the bus station, where we took the 816 back to the mall.  There was a weird guy on the bus.  He was somewhat nosy, extremely lonely.  He thought Megan was my sister, called her Rachel (I was wearing a sweat shirt that said Rachel on it).  It was just strange.  Anyway.  Bert didn't pick us up at the mall (or rather he was there an hour before us not having received our message) so we decided to walk back to campus.  It's a long walk back to campus.  Longer than I imagined.  And parts of the path are not well lit.  Oh well.  We got back to DT an hour or so later after many questions had been asked and answered.  It had been an awesome, super fun day, let me tell you.

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  "Finding myself in a place I've never been, where I don't know myself or anyone else. I can dream about the past or I can just let it go, I lost track of time five days ago" (This Day and Age).

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