When we got up on Sunday morning in Oak Park, for the last day of Lollapalooza, it was raining – as it is right now in Madison, as I write this, already the following Friday.
Mark and I went to Starbucks, and I took my computer for the free wifi, and wrote an earlier blog post. We woke up the kids and pent some time checking all kinds of weather forcasts, on phones and TV and computers. We voted to see where we wanted to go eat – I campaigned for Lou Mitchell’s, as an adventure, and a Chicago experience. But I got out-voted for the convenience of the same place we went Saturday – the Cozy Corner.
The rain pretty much stopped and we headed downtown. The kids went to Lollapalooza – we went to the Museum of Contemporary Art, and saw the Calder show. Coincidentally, I just wrote about it in the Scout report – the show paired Calder with 7 younger artists, who’s work shows his influences. But the best part was that they put all the Calders in one big room, and the made a kind of meta Calder, mobiles and stabiles seen in relation to each other.
We played with the iPhone 4G at the Apple Store – made a face in face call – and bought some bright-colored wine stoppers at Crate & Barrel. Then we split a sandwich and a salad at Corner Bakery, got cold drinks at Starbucks and finally moseyed on down to the show.
We just camped out at the northern end and saw MGMT, The National, and Arcade Fire. It was pretty squeezy getting out – don’t know why they couldn’t just take all the barricades down at that point – but the guy in front of me that I kept getting shoved up against couldn’t have been better – he wasn’t drunk, he didn’t smell bad, and the shirt he was wearing was really soft.
