Last night my friend Diana and I went to see a fantastic concert: the Cleveland stop on the Unwigged And Unplugged Tour--Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest. Yes, that's right--I saw Spinal Tap and The Foresmen in person! :-D And man were they good! I love these guys--even though I'm not the hugest Spinal Tap fan, I got hooked later during Best in Show and A Mighty Wind and so forth. Their movies are hilarious, and they can really sing and play too. It was a lovely concert, in our beautiful Ohio Theater, which is the smallest of the Playhouse Square theaters so although we were up in the mezzanine we had a perfect view. The sound quality was a little iffy sometimes--or I'm just starting to lose my hearing :-( --I couldn't always catch their ad libs and jokes between songs. But they're such longtime friends that just watching them interact was great fun, you can clearly see how well they get along and that they have such a history together. There was a screen behind them that played an occasional video clip, from fanmade Spinal Tap music videos (the LEGO concert is hilarious!) to old mockumentary scenes (Scandinavian Cheese Festival, anyone??) to clips of Harry Shearer as a child extra in The Robe! Wow! They played several Spinal Tap songs and several folk songs from the movie A Mighty Wind--and just as I was thinking, hmm, it's too bad there's no female vocals on these songs, they do sound even nicer that way, Michael introduces his wife, Annette O'Toole, who comes out on stage to sing two songs with them!! (The Mitch and Mickey song from Mighty Wind and the Noah's Ark song) I was in total gleeful shock! This is Clark Kent's mom after all! :-D (on Smallville) What a neat surprise. And she has a lovely voice. We had a terrific time, once I got over my slight irritation at not being able to take any photos in the theater, grrr. (OK I know you usually can't bring in cameras at these things but I thought I'd try nonetheless, because I really wanted to have a photo to remember them by. Oh well.) Just a toe-tapping hilarious good time. For another perspective on the evening (and probably more details, because she was actually writing down the names of the songs they performed) check out Diana's blog.

Getting excited for my Memorial Day weekend vacation trip to Chicago--yay!! Gonzo arrives here tomorrrow and on Friday we leave. Should be a lot of fun.