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Here are some pictures I found on flickr from the arcade fire concert.

Pictures from chriswarren: arcade fire set

Just got back from the Arcade Fire concert at First Avenue tonight. It was an amazing concert. They have 8-12 people up on stage for every song, and they don’t hold back. The crowd was dancing and grooving, singing along to every song.

After the show, I played frogger with the moving mass of people and made my way over to the table selling t-shirts. At the table was none other than the violinist for the band, whose name is Sarah. She signed my ticket for me.

First of all, what band that plays before packed audiences and on national television has their band members come over and sell t-shirts after the show?

Secondly, I was trying to coach myself to say something all cool and poetic or something, but what came out was: “That was an awesome performance, I can’t wait to hear your new CD.”

Fine, I guess, but I should’ve said, “It’s awesome that you sing without a microphone up there.”

Oh well, members of the Arcade Fire, if you read random websites, I enjoyed your show, and I hope you always play as hard as you did tonight.

Here’s a review at the startribune

“Americans are happy with the free market when it allows them to buy cheap T-shirts and twenty-nine-dollar DVD players, but they tend to like it less when they have to pay fifty dollars to fill up their gas tanks.”

Pump Pressure – The New Yorker

I’d be willing to bet money that there is a correlation between “free-market” people and the mpg of their vehicles. The more they believe in the free-market, the more they gripe about high gas prices, and the bigger their cars and trucks are.

How’s that for some sweeping generalizations?

Seriously though, gas is too cheap in this country. We should all be paying at least $1.50/gallon more than we pay right now.

Increase the gas tax, make us pay more, build more public transit, watch our dependence on oil decrease. It’s that simple.

Hopefully this will be the last site news post for a while, and then I can get back to the fun stuff.

If all went well, we didn’t lose anything off the back of the moving van on the way over to our new home. I think my email is working as well.

Knock on wood, that was pretty smooth!