I've packed an amazing amount of activity into the last couple of days.
On Friday evening, I got the opportunity to see the new Andy Warhol exhibit at Kansas City's Union Station at no charge. It was organized as a blogger meetup/tweetup and attended by Spyder and her husband Kanga, Queen of Quirky, May and her fiance, A Librarian, (jeff)isageek and his wife MsGigglebox, XO, TaraCuda, ITChickie and I feel like I'm forgetting someone else. I'll add them if I remember later.
Unfortunately the "tweetup" portion of the activity was curtailed by the complete lack of cell phone signals in the bowels of the concrete building.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about art, so I found the exhibit to be an eye-opening look at the breadth of Warhol's styles, media and subject matter. In other words, there was a lot more than just soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
The exhibit runs through January 10th, so go see it if you get the chance. On Friday evenings after 5, admission includes a drink ticket - bonus!
After we had our drinks, most of the group headed out to dinner together and ended up at New Peking in Westport. We had a nice time sharing entrees and chatting about all kinds of deep subjects.
Once dinner was over, I stopped home to drop off my garlicky leftovers and went to a bar to meet up with my band's bass player and see my old rhythm guitarist play with his current band, Red Eyed Bob.
The late Friday night didn't slow me down on Saturday. At 8 a.m. I took Trillian to the vet for a round of shots since it has now been a year since we got her. After that I went and volunteered at an animal adoption event at Petco, and was thrilled that TaraCuda and Imaginary_Mark fell in love with two of the kittens and have applied to adopt them.
Later in the afternoon, I went to an introductory capoeira workshop put on by Grupo Axé Capoeira (including blogger Second Bill Thoughts) at The Zen Zone in Lee's Summit. Capoeira an amazing blend of dance and martial arts, and talk about a full-body workout!
To say that I have a lot of problems with coordination is a vast understatement; I don't know if it's because I'm left-handed or for some other reason. So, I struggled with learning each basic move (and I wasn't the only one), although I learned I can still do a cartwheel, but I'm only good at them going right, not left. Once I got the hang of some of the moves, I could almost feel new neural pathways developing.
All in all, it was such satisfying exercise, both weight-bearing and aerobic, that I find myself very interested in getting involved in the discipline and starting regular classes. It would take some serious adjustments to my schedule, but I'm definitely going to consider it.
I spent the rest of evening at TaraCuda's birthday carbfest, where I had my very first experience playing Rock Band. I only sang this time, but I think that the drums looked fun and I'll definitely try them next time.
Irony! At a party I was at this weekend, I hung out with a gal who's firm worked on the Warhol stuff - she was particularly proud of how the tomato soup can came out. :-)
Posted by: cagey | November 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM