mondale memorial service

 this afternoon i watched the memorial service for ex-VP walter mondale. i lucked out on finding it on TV, Fox-9, as it was not open to the public. as a performer of course i responded well to the music performed at the end of the service. this included 'tomorrow' from 'annie' as well as the U. of Minn. band doing the fight song, and 'battle hymn of the republic'. some of the speakers told nice stories. president biden was one of the speakers, likely the the longest speech. this was followed by mondale's two sons, who closed out the lineup of the speakers before getting to the music. i had seen some memorials on TV for public servants before, as a history major i figured it was a good idea to watch them. it was on the U. of Minnesota campus, Northrop Auditorium. this is a venue i had seen events at before. there was a comedy show- robin williams- and a music show- snow patrol. this is what led to looking through event tickets in the evening, and i did find the stub from the snow patrol show. as i recall i have a postcard of this venue as well. 

in the morning i watched a DVD movie, 'blues brothers 2000'. it was one of two movies on a disc i had bought from amazon, along with the original movie in the franchise. it wasn't that good. i liked seeing john goodman in it, liked seeing soldier field being depicted in one scene, and there were plenty of famous musicians in it. during a battle of the bands this included travis tritt, and eric clapton. i recognized paul shaffer, and blues traveler, in the movie as well. some things just didn't work for me, such as spray painting the band's name on a mercedes benz. defacing a luxury car seems wrong. once the movie was done i got started on doing laundry. during that time i had lunch, some pizza. in the evening i went to perform at an open-mic, nice seeing some familiar faces there such as the wisconsin couple, and the bathtub comic. it might have been the first time for these three since the pandemic hit. there was a crowd member that kept becoming a part of the show, and she found me after my set and said she liked what i did. sounds like she wants to perform at a later show. the ones that got the most reaction were likely the ones where i skewered some family members. later on i went on a walk  and found 1 dollar 56 cents.