I am so tired - this weekend was heaps of fun, but super exhausting as well. For starters - left work early on Friday to help out at Rock the Garden with David Byrne.

For two and a half hours of taking tickets, applying wrist bands, directing people to the exit and infoming people that they could not infact take beer into the garden, we received a nice little box lunch, water, a great t-shirt from american apparel and admittance to the show. We even saw Rex and resisted berating him for the lack of posting. The Walker volunteer coordinators were great and even let our friend from out of town volunteer with us since she had no where else to go really. We were positioned at the main entrance and worked with an azia security guard who reminded me of lorenzo lamas from his Renegade days.(which i thought was pretty hot at the time - i mean back when i watched the show) He was rather friendly and I enjoyed chatting with him, but the fact that he never took his sunglasses of (even in the shade) made it difficult for me to actually have a conversation with him. I hate it when I can't see people's eyes.

The Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra from Brooklyn was fun to dance to during our ticket taking stint. They were a huge maybe thirteen piece band with reggae, ska, afro beats and political language. I was loving it. We were finished with our volunteer stint in just enough time to grab a beer and head up close to the stage to see David Byrne perform. He moved about the stage sometimes running in circles, other times dancing in a slow sexy manner that also seemed to be directing the music and the Tosca Strings that were accompanying him. I was fairly unfamiliar with his music other than a couple Talking Heads songs from the radio but that did not take away from the excellence from the show at all. My favorite song of the moment is Finite=Alright off of the Feelings album. They also performed a live version of a dj remix of one of his songs. This could be the new trend in musical progression - forget just live bands or dj's or the mixture - the next step is the cover of the collaboration performed live. It made for an excellent evening and instead of being sad that we didn't have an after party to attend I was relieved. All that ticket taking, people watching, and dancing had worn me out.

I was in bed by 11pm.