Beautiful day, and I had a major nostalgia attack!
There's no video of yesterday's concert available, but here's Roberta Flack singing "Killing Me Softly With His Song" in a 1988 concert:
I'm getting lazy about taking pictures. I went to a couple of events yesterday and thought of taking my little camera with me, but then I thought that other people would be putting their photos on the web. It would be easier to just point to them, and the photos would probably be better than mine anyway.
Sure enough, someone took great pictures of the opening day of the Sunday morning Inner Sunset Farmer's Market in the 9th and Irving parking lot. The weather was beautiful and lots of people showed up. Most of the food was on the pricey end, but I bought a few items and also learned about things going on in the neighborhood. Very nice! I'll probably swing by there every week.
Then I went to the annual Israel in the Gardens event in Yerba Buena Park. The headliner act was Ivri Lider:
I had a falafel, which was okay, and some puff pastry things stuffed with spinach and potato, which I had never had before. They were incredibly good. I got a couple more, on the way out, to take home and had them for dinner.
These are great. I missed seeing them on TV, because they came on before I started watching.
I snagged the videos off of Shakesville.
Jennifer Hudson:
Will.I.Am and John Legend:
Leonard Cohen singing "Suzanne" -- Isle of Wight, 1970
Ack! Nostalgia attack! I was crazy about Leonard Cohen when I was in high school -- the written poetry first, as I recall, and then later the songs, which I played over and over.
I found this while reading the Echidne of the Snakes blog. The name Nina Simone is vaguely familiar to me, but I don't think I've heard her music before. Glad to discover this song. Wonderful animation in the video too:
I just realized I could find songs on YouTube that were recorded long before personal computers existed.
