Last night was random... After spending 20 minutes relaxing in the middle of Murphy Square (which sometimes somewhat feels like laying in my backyard back home), D came up to Andy, Claire, Katie, and I and told us he just booked a show at the Acadia Cafe on Ceder-Riverside... he wanted us to go check it out with him, and because we had nothing to do of course we walked there at 11:00 at night....
And I am so glad I did.
It was a really chill place... a bar and food and drinks and all that jazz... and a show was going on when we got there. It was a woman (with an EXCELLENT voice) accompanied by a man on bass guitar and sometimes cello. They were really really good. Not only was the music good, but i started to partake in everyone's favorite hobby: people watching.
There was such a wide variety of people in the cafe, and they were all laughing, telling stories, and of course enjoying the music... One man (i think he was of Somalian descent) actually came up to us and said something along the lines of, "You know that today is 9/11 right? And you know what's so good about this country? Years after such a tragedy, we can all still sit together here, and listen to this music. Music brings people together. It's beautiful.... so please listen, because on the inside, she is crying as she sings... pouring her heart out...and it's beautiful"
And as I listened, i stared out the window of that little cafe and watched all the people passing by.... a wide variety of people... and it was truly beautiful.
It was a near-perfect night.
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I'm a little jealous... I've meant to check that place out for the past two years and never have. Glad your enjoying yourself:)
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