Live from Niagara Falls

The concert last night was a lot of fun, but surreal at the same time (I was watching one of my favorite artists in a 3/4 full gymnasium populated with abercrombie and fitch-wearing floozies american university students...making me feel totally old and un-cool) Highlights: Hearing "Still Fighting It" (my recent Ben Folds life-theme-song, featuring the lyrics "everybody knows/it sucks to grow up/but everybody does/it's so weird to be back here"). 1 Angry Dwarf and 200 Solomn Faces (double time encore version). People watching from the top seat of the stands. Mr. Folds standing on top of his piano, leading the audience in a 3-part choral harmony to accompany "Not the Same". The improvised "Rock This Bitch (Niagara Falls)". Folds awkwardly playing the Star Spangled Banner on the bass guitar.
Overall, a very cool way to spend a Saturday night. I think I would like to go back to the Falls and spend more than 45 minutes there ... a very fantastical and alternate-universe type of city. I was blown away by how commercialized the community is. They've bastardized the most beautiful natural wonder in Canada ... the hundreds of Falls-centric stores, restaurants and casinos devalue what is so wonderful about it in the first place. It was fun and sad at the same time, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, here are a few pics (I didn't take many). Time to rent a movie and relax - a full work week ahead.
The street I live on (so pretty in the spring!)
Flowers in my neighbour's garden
Fat Guts goes international!



The American side of the Falls (we didn't have time to walk over to the 1,000,000 times more spectacular Canadian side)