the EMP and stuff

[dr4b]

Yesterday we took the bus downtown again. Got tickets to the DCT show (geez, they went on sale Friday and by Sunday the best I could get was row ZZ on the floor level) at Tower, then went to the EMP (Experience Music Project). I'm definitely glad we didn't pay full price ($20?!) to go in there. I mean, some of the ideas are neat and all, but we didn't really try a lot of the "super interactive" stuff because it was really crowded, and it was sort of weird to see the one room where they basically had my high school music collection up on the wall (geez, they even had Reckoning up there and the "definitive" REM song they played was "So. Central Rain"). Except that this was part of a museum of music thingy, so my high school record collection was intended to be a piece of music history. Weird. We looked at the "uncommon objects" but they were mostly dumb. Then we went on the "Funk" ride thingy, which was the lamest thing of all. You watch a few videos about people in the James Brown Band, and then you go on an Alice-type "ride" which doesn't do much except make you feel sick, not even because of the jerkiness of the seat, but because of how dumb it is. Blah. God, I feel bad being this negative, but I dunno, I just didn't really enjoy the EMP very much. It might be because I didn't eat any food all day until afterwards, but I'm not sure.

We bussed back and got food at Red Mill Burgers. YAY! Yummy milkshake. Then we spent some time in our new house. I fell asleep after unpacking some stuff and then eventually Eli woke me up to come back here since he wanted to go hiking with people in the morning, that is, today. So here I am. Not sure what I'll do today, but I'm sure I'll tell you all tomorrow.