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Well this weekend was all about getting in touch with the "old me," not the psychopath who was suffering through personal issues, but rather the one who's all about the music. Following the trend started about a month ago at Paganfest, I'm back on the music scene, more present than ever. Yesterday was the opening show for Summer Stage @ Central Park, which proved to be one of the best experiences by far.

It was an innocently sunny Saturday that involved being Manhattan-bound. Out of impatience and desire, rather than taking the subway right from Penn., I headed over to Herald Sq., which implies a visit to Koryodong (that amazing cafe that sells the ice pops that I'm all about. Yes, I finally managed to take the name down).

Shot up north and headed towards Central Park to meet up with Kat to go to the show. Who was playing? Born Ruffians, A-trak, Kid Sister, & Vampire Weekend. How collegiate. Andrew WK served as host, commencing the show. Born Ruffians came on and were quite good, a surprise to those of us who showed up exclusively for VW or Kid Sis. And then the rain came, slowly at first... and then heavy, and then heavier. It turned into Woodstock though, since nobody was phased by the impending severity of the storm. I'm there with Kat and co, sans sneakers ou t-shirt getting pounded on by blankets of water.

And it kept pouring delaying the show, as Kid Sister was too drunk to not worry about her weave. So the crowd gets antsy and after 40 minutes of excessive rain A-trak comes out to mix it up, great DJ, though he came with an ego since he's worked with the likes of Kanye.

Kid Sister comes out, drunk as shit but rearing to go (Thanks Maria for the pic). In typical Kat+Roo tradition, some one made sure to acknowledge the fact that we were more persistant than the rest of the crowd, jamming harder in the rain.

Kid Sis got off, and VW got on stage, to be met with a crowd as persistent and wild as the tempest that has been hovering over the area all afternoon. They were amazing, Playing the majority of their current album and introducing a couple of other song they've been working on. The rain came had halfway through their set, but they kept going and it was such a hydrated event. The end of their set welcomed Andrew WK and his guitar to play a Tom Petty song... sigh... it was such a quencher, not just the downpour but the show.

On a different note... managed to make it uptown, et je le vois finalment. je suis resté avec lui durant la nuit parce qu'il était malade. Made it home on time to be the good son that I am, and celebrate Papa's Day!!!

I'm going to learn tonight how to play Metal Gear Solid4, correctly. We'll see how that goes.