{"id":213,"date":"2004-09-27T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/27\/fun_with_the_gun.html"},"modified":"2008-12-22T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T05:41:00","slug":"fun_with_the_gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/27\/fun_with_the_gun.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun with the Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it was more like a Taser than a gun, but we did have fun with it at Crate &#038; Barrel this weekend as we started setting up our registry.  We had a productive weekend, starting with the great save-the-date mailout on Saturday morning (as Aimee said, thank goodness for self-adhesive stamps).<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"save_dates_sent.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/27\/save_dates_sent.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><BR><BR>We started adding items to our registry after my Saturday run, and made some fateful decisions about dishes and silverware, which in the end isn&#8217;t I guess all that fateful, but I hope we still like it in a year when we&#8217;ll be eating off it every night.  I think we will.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"register_backgammon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/27\/register_backgammon.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><BR><BR>I didn&#8217;t have the stamina to make it to Macy&#8217;s as well, but we did make it to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dining\/restaurant\/1\">Delux Cafe<\/A> in the South End, home of Elvis kitsch and a great grilled cheese sandwich (and also apparently restaurant #1 according to the Boston.com <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dining\/restaurant\/1\">link<\/A>).<BR><BR>On Sunday night, we enjoyed a terrific <a title=\"BostonHerald.com - the Edge: Marsalis, Reeves rescue lukewarm compositions\" href=\"http:\/\/theedge.bostonherald.com\/musicNews\/view.bg?articleid=46127\">concert<\/A> to kick of the Celebrity Series at Symphony Hall, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Dianne Reeves.   The first half of the too-short concert featured the orchestra performing original compositions as well as some Ellington numbers.  Reeves came out for the second half, and was amazing.  I&#8217;ve been stuck in Ella \/ Sarah \/ Billie mode forever, and it was refreshing to hear someone live with such gifts, tonally, improvisationally, and every other which way.  She performed two of my favorite songs, &#8220;Lullabye of Birdland&#8221; and &#8220;Skylark,&#8221; to begin her set, and displayed an amazing, rich range.  Listening to Reeves and Marsalis call and respond on &#8220;You Go to My Head&#8221; was a real pleasure.<BR><BR>And what better way to end the evening than admiring the fruit architecture at Whole Foods?  And no, I don&#8217;t have a permit to take that photo.  Sorry.<BR><BR><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"whole_foods_fruit.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/27\/whole_foods_fruit.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"133\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was more like a Taser than a gun, but we did have fun with it at Crate &#038; Barrel this weekend as we started setting up our registry. 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