About This Weekend

I'm not sure exactly how or why Water Dissolves Water has morphed into a music blog, but then again I'm not sure exactly what kind of blog it actually was to begin with. I figure that it's better to just go with the flow and let the posts play themselves out out as they will rather than try to control things.

So in keeping with this new, almost Daoist-like acceptance of things-as-they-are, here's a post full of things going on in (and around) Atlanta this weekend, most or all of which I expect to be a participant. Tonight, of course, is the season premier of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; I understand that this season the writers are going to have to resolve the real-life pregnancy of Kaitlin Olson, the Tualatin, Oregon native who plays Sweet Dee in the show. I know that it's kind of lame starting off a What's-Going-On-This-Weekend post with a television show, so maybe you can find a viewing party or something like that going on somewhere.

Friday's big event is the Rock For Roots show at Atlantic Station. They've apparently covered an asphalt parking lot with sod (the "roots" part) for the audience to enjoy as they listen to several bands (the "rock" part), including Atlanta's own Shawn Mullins, Chrissie Hynde's (The Pretenders) new band (JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys), and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The music's scheduled to start at 4:00, although I won't be making it there until after 7:00 or so and I can get out of work. Oh, and it's free.

On Saturday, there's the East Atlanta Strut festival, another free event featuring an artist's market, a parade, and the general ambiance of East Atlanta Village, home to The Earl among many other fine establishments. Music will be performed at several stages by many, many bands (they're promising 50!) from 10 am to 10 pm, so there's that.

Sunday will start with a Zen service in Chattanooga, Tennessee, apparently soon to be home of the fastest internet service in America. Sunday night, Portland's Laura Veirs performs at The Earl (return to East Atlanta). I missed her the last time she played in Atlanta at The Star Bar, although I do believe that The Earl would be a better venue for her (Star Bar would have been a better venue for Those Darlins). Anyway, The Watson Twins will be opening, so it's a must-see event whatever the venue.

Of course, attending this show means missing the premier of HBO's Boardwalk Empire (directed by Martin Scorsese!), but that's apparently the karmic consequence of starting the weekend with a televised event, although HBO does tend to rerun these things like a hundred times the following week, not to mention On Demand.

Finally, the next evening will feature, as always, Monday Night Zazen. The interested reader is referred to the picture in the post below for additional details of this concluding event.