Out To Lunch

I was supposed to be at home working on real estate clock hours today. Steve took my car down to Rasmussen MINI in Portland for a last bit of warranty work (the grace period runs out in less than 1,000 miles). So I was going to be home without a car. But when I read in the paper online yesterday that Soul Asylum was giving a free concert as part of the Downtown Summer free concert series, "Out To Lunch", I knew I had to be there! But how to manage it without a car?

I checked out the bus schedule - it would have taken 90 minutes just to get 4 miles to Seacrest Pier to be able to take the water taxi. So plan B. We recently got our bikes all fixed up to start riding again. I called my friend Colette, who has a van, to see if she could drop me off at the Seacrest Pier. I knew I could take the Elliott Bay Water Taxi across to Pier 55 and walk to Pike Place Market from there. I left my bike at Seacrest and ferried across.

The concert was really great! I have never seen them perform live before. Soul Asylum is a left-over from my depresssion days of the early and mid '90s (my pre-Steve era). Sort of how now when people see the color pink they think of me - it used to be people would hear a Soul Asylum (or Depeche Mode) song and automatically think of me.

Anyway, I guess they have a new album out! I am going to need to pick it up. They played a great mix of old and new stuff and I like the new stuff, too!

I was up on the curb for most of the show. The crowd was probably 75% men and they're tall. But I managed to get up by the stage for the final set. A lot pf people started leaving the area, but I was hoping for an encore so I got up there before they started playing again.

Soul Asylum has been rocking out for over 20 years! I am starting to feel old...