I went to see Charlie Parr again last night (not the first time seeing him) at the 331 club. Man, is that guy good or what? It kind of reminds you of a real life “O Brother Where Art Thou” saga. I really have a lot of respect for Charlie Parr. After all, he did trade his outboard motor for a guitar, and in Minnesota fishing is a big deal.
Let me think of yesterday. I was chillin out on my front porch with my roommate drinking some beers as I like to do after work. I look over and see this mini van with this older dude organizing his stuff. I take a good look and think to myself, that kind of looks like Charlie Parr. So I yell, “Hey! Charlie”. No response. I yell again. This time he turns around and to my surprise it is Charlie. He comes walkin down the street and we meet up and I say, “What a surprise!”. We chat for a bit and he says, “I’m just going to get Sneaky Pete and then off to the 331 club, you should come there”. What a nice guy. More musicians should be as friendly as Charlie Parr.
I remember the first time I saw Charlie play live. Gives ya that feeling, you know? Kinda like that feeling you get when the Soggy Bottom Boys started playing. Goodness. I like Charlie a lot too as he stays true to his roots. Minnesota. I was going to school in Duluth, MN and my brother invited to Wednesday night at Fitgers – when Charlie plays. I was definitely happy I went. I’ve seen Charlie Parr numerous times since that night and I have to say I’m happy I have. If you have a chance to see this legend, no matter your age, I highly recommend this treat – most of the time free too.
While I have your attention, take some time to view this video:
I’m going to let you in on a little secret, the cheapest airfare you can find on travel airline sites:
First, go to Bing and then go to travel.
From there, search your flexible dates and find the cheapest dates on the graph – probably not going to be a lot. Write the lowest fare dates down.
Second, go to Orbitz and type those dates in, walla! Cheapest airfare you can possibly find.
By combining these two airfare search engines you will save yourself a lot of money.
Exciting news for the tech world: Google has released Google Fonts API. What does this mean for you? This is a easy way for you use different fonts than the same old fonts that have been around since the start of modern browsers. Adding fonts other than web compatible browser fonts has been annoying and tedious in the past. Not anymore with what I’ll call them, “google fonts” – really though, they are open source fonts. Amazing, once again, thank you Google for making our tech lives easier and broadening the web! Can’t wait for the library to grow and use more cool fonts.
Since moving back to Minnesota I must say there are certain things missing here that I grew accustomed to living on the west coast. One of them happens to be In N Out Burger.
Today for lunch I was invited to check out Five Guys Burger and Fries. I thought maybe, just maybe, it might kind of compare to the deliciousness of In N Out Burger? No way. Not even close. Other than the Juicy Lucy there is nothing in the midwest that compares with In N Out.
These two burger companies I’m comparing are actually kind of coastal rivals. In N Out from the west coast, Five Guys Burgers from the East coast. A lot of other facts you can review on each companies website (under history). But, for now I leave disappointed with just about everything about 5 Guys Burgers: Not as tasty as IN N Out, Slow Service, missed parts of what I asked for on my burger, bad fries, slow service considering there were actually more like 20 guys working there, loud and annoying in there, greasy to-go bag, and also, really not worth the $10.15 for the regular which should be called the double and the regular fries which is so much bad, greasy fries in your paper bag there really is room for nothing else.
Oh, In N Out, when are you coming to the midwest. Please, save us.