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Last night, I met Adam and Jennifer, Cas' friends for many, many years. Cas knows Adam from high school, and from the sound of things, Jennifer has been around about that long, as well.

Jennifer won some tickets to a music festival that featured four headlining bands on the main stage and a handful of bands on a second stage. I was feeling a little out of touch, since I had only actually heard of two of the bands in question, but it turns out, Cas, Adam and Jennifer were all at about the same place. 

It was good to meet his friends. They seem like nice folks, and I hope they found me an appropriate girlfriend for their longtime buddy. 

Now, the KXT Summer Cut lineup was mainly comprised of "Indie" bands. I hadn't given a lot of thought to defining "Indie" music, but apparently, I can now say that I enjoy it, though I haven't thought about it much in the past. I will say that these bands have a very specific fan base. People who like The Hold Steady, Iron and Wine and Deathcab for Cutie seem to be mostly Caucasian and heavily tattooed. There was a feeling all night like we were all a few seconds away from a hackey sack coming our way. I did see a frisbee. One band had a shoeless banjo player. 

Overall, it was a good time. I particularly enjoyed watching the bizarre dancing antics of a fella watching a band on the second stage. Someone must have told him once to dance like nobody's looking, and he must have really taken that to heart. He was having a better time than anyone else at the whole Starplex. 

I still call it Starplex, by the way. I don't care who has naming rights. I was entertained that there is a feature within Starplex (actually called Gexa Energy Pavillion) called The Low T Icehouse. Apparently, sponsorship has come so far that we're naming a bar within a concert venue after prescription medicine designed to raise testosterone levels in men. Sign of the times...

We left just a bit before the last song was played and hit up a restaurant called Velvet Taco. Holy moly, that was a good pair of tacos. It was also a good opportunity to get to know Adam and Jennifer better. We talked a little bit about schools- they have a kiddo in the sixth grade- and what should be versus what is. 

Cas was completely exhausted by the time we all said good night. He had to be at work the whole day, and as I will probably be reminded on Monday, it's tough to get back into that schedule after a few months of freedom. He and I have a dinner date tonight at III Forks, since it's restaurant week. We're going for a nice, fancy meal. I have to shift gears from music festival shorts and t-shirt date to little black dress date. In the meantime, here is some of the first band. There were over a dozen members on stage, so I don't think I got them all in this photo. 

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