mewithoutYou

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the mewithoutYou show at Slim's with Tony and Jake. It was a treat. For starters, mewithoutYou aren't really like any other band out there right now. They are rather hippy-ish. They are all Christian dudes, and much in the spirit of Shane Claiborne and the like, are these communal, organic-eating, social justice-craving, Jesus loving, potluck enjoying, carrot devouring, spoken-word rocking, accordian and bell playing, weirdos. As complicated and lame as that description was, it is the best that I can do. The singer does this weird spoken word, dancing, stuttering, singing thing. They asked their fans (via their website) to bring food to the show to share as well as a non-guitar instrument if any of the fans would like to play with them on stage. Sadly no one brought any instruments. As you can see from the video below, people do bring instruments to their other shows.

Their bus (above) is powered using vegetable oil. No joke. Read an article here about veggie cars. There were 3 other bands as well (Manchester Orchestra, Piebald, and The Snake The Cross The Crown). I enjoyed all of them but Manchester was particularly good. The show was a lot of fun. We got back super late but it was worth it.

Mel went to the senior banquet at church. She said that it was a lot of fun. Before she was a middle school leader, she was a high school leader, and had been with this group of girls since they were freshman, so it was a good bit of closure for her. They had over 125 people at the banquet. What a splendid occasion!