Got up (<>) and got ready to head over to the WWC for my morning swim. I did 2500 yds this time for the first time in a while, and I really felt it in the last 200 yds in my shoulders and arms. Standard protocol for this distance, finished in a little over 50 minutes, and did the first 2000 in right around 40 minutes. Then I went home, had some breakfast, and hung out for a bit before heading to get some hardware. Initially went, via a circuitous route, to The Home Depot, as I was real-time planning on how to make a ceiling storage space for my Canyon bicycle box. I ended up getting a couple of thick shelf brackets and two 4' long 1"x2" boards. Then I went to Ace Hardware and got a possible solution to hold the curtain rod in my old office up in the middle. Not sure it will work. It took me about an hour to install the bracket-and-board storage in the garage, but I think it turned out like I had planned (I have been thinking about ways to create this storage for a long time, glad it's finally done). Then I had some lunch and watched a Dauphine bike race TV summary and an episode of Reservation Dogs. Next, I tackled cleaning up my old office, and that took another hour or so. But it looks neater and cleaner. I needed to get my steps in, so I did a hike, with the loaded backpack, over on the trails on the way to RB Community Park. Going up the steeper sections of the trails with the load on my back, in afternoon sunny conditions, was more of a chore than I expected, and I was glad to be done. In the late afternoon, we drove down to Fenton Pkwy, where we caught the trolley to SDSU for the Vampire Weekend concert at Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater. Loded the new Pronto app on our phones for paying for trolley tickets, but neither of us could get it to work. So we rode over anyway, no problems. Had a small picnic by the Student Union before we went into the concert venue. The tickets were center stage but back a ways. I had brought my binoculars, and they came in handy during the show at times. The opening act was an instrumental swing guitar trio, La Low, and they were mildly entertaining, albeit a bit repetitive in their music. Then Vampire Weekend, the remaining 3 original members came onstage and played three songs before the curtain dropped to reveal the rest of the band (who was playing along on the first three songs anyway). They had a really annoying stage lighting system with incredibly bright arc lights in a line that would periodically flash and strobe. I took to wearing my sunglasses and pulling them down when the lights started acting up. The band played a long time and covered all of their big hits, along with many tracks from their latest album Only God Was Above Us. Music was generally good, occasionally so loud that all I could hear was distorted sound. I wasn't a fan of their treatment of Sympathy, one of my favorite songs of theirs, and they could have left out the country-influenced medley that they included, along with a giant cornhole game that an audience member got to try out. He missed all three tries, but Ezra Koenig still gave him $300. Kinda hokey. They had to rush their encore a little bit, since they were coming up on the 11:00 curfew. Koenig's attempt to cover John Mellencamp's Jack & Diane was hilarious, he obviously didn't know the song. They did better on their cover of The Cure's Just Like Heaven. I don't think Ann enjoyed the show so much. She liked some of the more poppy songs but is not a fan of distorted guitars, and they had more of that from their new album. Still, an enjoyable concert that I'm glad we went to. Here's the setlist.
- Hold You Now
- Mansard Roof
- The Kids Don't Stand a Chance
- Ice Cream Piano
- Classical
- Capricorn
- Connect
- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
- Step
- This Life
- Sunflower
- Sympathy
- Pravda
- Oxford Comma
- Gen-X Cops
- Diane Young
- Cousins
- A-Punk
- Married in a Gold Rush / All the Gold in California / Sin City / Cumberland Blues / Possum
- Mary Boone
- Obvious Bicycle
- Harmony Hall
- Worship You
- Ya Hey
- Hope
Encore:
- Jack & Diane (John Mellencamp cover)
- Just Like Heaven (The Cure cover)
- Walcott
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