life with more cowbell

Big artsy fartsy day yesterday, chickens, starting with the New Ideas Festival week one noon reading of Mythmaking up in the Alumnae Theatre Studio. Not to worry, the family drama was all on stage – at least, for me it was. For the scoop on that, check out my ‘New Ideas: week one reading’ post on the Alum blog: www.alumnaetheatre.wordpress.com

Last night, it was off to Calvin Presbyterian Church – no, not for the religion, silly – for I Furiosi’s Baroque to the Future concert. I guess I should explain that these guys are not only exquisite musicians, but big, big fun – and come up with big fun themes and titles for their recitals, not to mention excellent costumes (e.g., guest violinist Edwin Huizinga dressed as the Professor and violoncellist/viola gambanist Felix Deak as Marty McFly from Back to the Future)! As always, I enjoyed myself a whole bunch. Check them out at: www.ifuriosi.com

Besides the usual program listings of music, bios and sponsors, they also included a brief Q&A with the musicians: Which invention/advancement in technology could you never live without? Most of the gang came up with two things.

That got me thinking – how would I respond to this? In the end, I have to go with Felix on the indoor plumbing. I’d also have to add: a coffeemaker.