The holidays are uppon us and I'm sitting her frantically typing in what free time I have. I wish I could report on al my journeys thus far in the Christmas Season. Sadly, you're going to have to suffer my meger rambelings on the main events in my life. A few days ago, Sunday actually, I attended church and immediately there after my dad and I embarked on a journey into the heart of the steel city with hopes of giving our eardrums a racking at the Trans Siberian Orcestra concert. Now, for those who don't know the TSO, they are a band who plays almost exclusively Christmas music; Their fashion of approach to this cleche genre is very different though. The band consists of three main players, guitar, keyboard and drummer. It doesn't stop there though. The rest of the band is another guitar, a bass, another keyboardist, an electric violinist(who makes his own violins) and a string ensomble of about 12 or 15 various string players. This is not counting their wonderful vocal section. So, these guys get pretty rockin. (samples available at http://www.trans-siberian.com/multimedia/index.shtml -- I reccomend A Mad Russian's Christmas and Wizards In Winter)
Long story short, we didn't get tickets for the early show. But, the 7:30 had some nice seats. So, my dad and I had a couple hours (6 I think) to blow in the burg. We went over to the Heinz Sports Museum, luckily it was open and we spent a whole 4.5 hours there. Monsterous fun. After touring the museum we roamed around the strip looking for an eatery, without much trouble we found the Harp and Fiddle pub. This place was crazy, it screamed Ireland. I'll have to go there with Laedelas some time, she'd love it. Our server even had this heavy irish accent. After consuming half of my Shepperd's pie we had to leave to get to the show, so, I wrapped up the remainder and we bolted off (as much as one can bolt in pittsburgh at any given moment) to the concert. It was phanominal. The lights, the music, the action, I couldn't have expected more. Fog everywhere, fake snow, fire, sparks, EVERYTHING. All the classics and some variations on multiple songs. Something freaky though, I saw two people that I could have sworn were two other people. One from the front, another from the back. really crazy, if not for subtle differences like hair length and minor differences in the face I would never have known the differences. Thats it for my historical recounts, I've got more to ramble about though.
Recently, I could swear I've lost all wit I possess. I've just drifted and drifted from my spiritual life and it shows. I've been amazed at how I've almost totally lost my gift to encourage people as much as I have in the past. I only just realised it a little while ago though. Its so sad that most of the time we need the sense "knocked" into us. We drift so far than come running back. Thankfully I can at least run back, and I have. So, I've been feeling more and more of God's spirit, which has been great.
More to come, after I sort some stuff out.
Feeling slightly insane
-Wes
1 comment:
indeed, the other fencing coaches have told me that they're taking me to the Harp & Fiddle when I turn 21. I'm also planning to go to Molly Brannigan's with my family. John suggested some Killian's Irish Red. See shall we.
How was the pie?
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