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My friends Chuck and Mary got married on Saturday!

(I’ll try to post more of my pics soon!)

Meet Ireana, my new cousin from Russia! My aunt and uncle just adopted her. Isn’t she the cutest thing!

Last night “The Curiosa Festival” made its way through the tri-state to Riverbend. I bet 99% of all of the “festival” goers were there just for the Cure – I admit I was. I had heard of Interpol and I like them a lot, but the Cure was why we were there.

Kevin got sick so our gang was one short, but we still managed to do a fair share of people watching. There weren’t as many “goths” as I would have expected – actually the turnout in general wasn’t like I expected. I figured the Cure would draw a pretty decent crowd, but the lawn had tons of space left. (In contrast, a few months ago we saw James Taylor there and it was blanket to blanket packed!)

I have to say the Cure put on a pretty decent just under two hour set. I’m not one to take notes at a concert so you’ll have to go elsewhere for a full set list.

I have to admit that I don’t have some of the more recent Cure stuff. Before the latest one, the last CD I actually purchased of theirs was “Wish”. The new CD is starting to grow on me though…

They did play quite a bit from “Disintegration” including (off the top of my head) Plainsong, Pictures of You (for some reason I had the urge to buy a HP printer during this one!), Love Song (of course!), Lullaby, Fascination Street and Disintegration.

They played some from the new CD and, of course, some of the classics showed up like Boys Don’t Cry, A Forest, Close To Me, In Between Days and Why Can’t I Be You.

The lighting and screen displays were pretty cool. The playing was great and Robert Smith’s voice is still pretty good after all these years.