Brief note: I’ve filled in some pictures to the previous post “The Road Is Hit!”

Milwaukee! Home of the Brewers, and some kind of crazy festival every weekend. I was only there for a weekday, however.

“Who did you record in Milwaukee?” asks Attractive Girl’s friend, Nice Personality Girl.

“Hey there, Nice Personality Girl! Where did Attractive Girl go?”

“She got kind of sick of you interrupting her all the time. I can handle it though because I have a nice personality.”

Awesome. Well then Nice Personality Girl, to answer your question, I didn’t record anyone.

“Really?”

Yes. I did, however, have a series of excellent adventures.

Zach’s Excellent Adventures in Milwaukee

First I met my host, an amazingly friendly fellow named Ian Abston.

Then I met some of his peeps. Then he and said peeps and I went to Riverside Sounds. Or, Sounds by the River. Or, River Rhythms.

“You don’t remember the name, do you?”

No. But it had ‘River’ in it. Anyway, it’s a free concert series every Wednesday night by the river (of course), with a broad mix of different styles and sounds from week to week. The band was a group called Ambrosia, which played something in between progressive rock and smooth jazz. An interesting mix, with some very interesting chords/meter stuff going on, but probably not something I’d spin more than twice.

Then, after a stop at Apollo’s (man, I am going crazy for gyros lately), it was back to the house. Ian and his peeps live in an amazing house, with a finished attic! Check this out:

It’s long. And tall and cool. Incidentally, I am all three of those things as well. Which is why the fact that the couch was two of those things is super awesome:

So far, this is the only couch where I haven’t had to bend something to fit. Awesome.

I spent a while catching up with stuff on the internets, then I said goodbye to Ian, the house, and Milwaukee, in that order. It was a short but sweet stay that ought to have been less of the former and more of the latter.

“That’s confusing,” says Nice Personality Girl.

I figured… next time, let’s have Intelligent Girl be the narrative device.