As planned, the eight-year-old and I headed out to WXPN today for yet another Free-At-Noon concert. This time it was They Might Be Giants, so it was no surprise that the place was packed.
'XPN warns you in advance that they overbook the place and to get to the station early to guarantee getting in. That proved a little tough for me and the boy since he was coming straight from the summer rec program. After some moves straight out of Baretta (some fancy parallel parking, running through a parking lot, hopping a fence and running down an alley) we got in and got pretty close, though all the way to the side of the stage.
The current and former Philadelphia blogging community was well represented - we saw Scott, Luna, and Becky. Later on I finally got to meet Inquirer blogging favorite MamaQ (aka Amy) from Citizen Mom, who was there volunteering for 'XPN and came up and introduced herself.
The concert was a little odd since it was only 45 minutes long and included a bunch of songs the Johns (Flansburgh and Linnell) seemed to be trying out before putting them on their next album. They still had enough time to throw in a few older favorites. Flans even provided a quick smackdown on Dubya's policies, both domestic and foreign, which was cool. It was a lot of fun, just way too short. Not even time for a post-concert meet-and-greet. Oh, well.
NPR's posted the concert here, along with a few photos. They asked that no one take photos, so my camera stayed in the backpack. The NPR photos (including the one in this post) were taken by an XPN employee.
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