Courtney Barnett at the 2015 Pitchfork Music Festival
I realized lately that I haven’t posted anything on my blog for quite a while. I think part of the reason is that I anticipated that 2015 would be a fairly uneventful year—I did not plan for much travel. While it has been true that I have done zero international travel, I have done much more domestic travel than I originally intended. The year started out visiting friends in NYC for New Years and then a trip to CA in March for the same friend’s wedding. The year so far included trips to Napa and Yosemite while in CA, to Florida for golf with some of my Maine friends, back to Asheville, NC and Hilton Head Island, SC for a family vacation, a four-day trip to Chicago to see Taylor Swift—yes, Taylor Swift. The Chicago trip provided the motivation to get me to start blogging again as I was also able to attend the Pitchfork Music Festival for the sole purpose of seeing Courtney Barnett—-my current musical infatuation. I also got to see some other great bands like Caribou and Run the Jewels but I waited 60 minutes in stifling heat and mud to get a good viewpoint for the Courtney show. I encourage you to watch the videos before someone makes me take them down—please Courtney, let me leave them up.
By the way, either the iPhone photo zoom really sucks or I just don’t know how to use it very well…regardless, I need to invest in a good camera with a decent zoom because I missed out on a bunch of great still shots. Anyone that wants to share any tips, let me know…those photos all looked so good on that little iPhone screen but very pixellated when I downloaded them to my computer.
Well, I hope this provides the motivation to get me writing more regularly. I hope to at least post some of the photos from my other 2015 trips soon.
I also hope to make it up to Maine as my last short vacation of the year…I will be out of vacation days soon so I need to start planning for 2016. Any ideas?
