I stopped in our bank last Friday to make a deposit and cash a few checks. I don’t know where the tellers go but they move through this branch pretty quickly. I was asked to show my id and then the same teller asked if our business would be interested in doing a display in the bank for a week. He pointed to a tabletop display in the corner that currently featured a popcorn machine with fresh popcorn and a sign for a concessions company. The teller said he had a cancellation for next week and he wondered if we would be interested. I committed to it and printed up a few 8 1/2 x 11 posters with a blowup of an ad and some stuff from our website. He told me the bank opens at eight on Monday and I said there was no way I would be there at that hour.
Sure enough the bank called this morning and wondered if we were still planning on setting up a display. Peggi told them we were on the way. When I got there I was the only customer in the bank and the tellers were discussing what satellite radio station to tune into. One of the tellers told another that she couldn’t stand it when customers sang along with the songs so she suggested they choose an instrumental station. I arranged the three posters on the backdrop and spread some business cards around on the table surface and I scattered some Margaret Explosion matches around for good measure.
The soundtrack for my trip down Titus Ave. to the bank was the Hotel Reverie cd that Jen gave us after their sensationally understated performance at the Boulder Fest on Sunday. Jen’s right-on rhythm guitar, dark, enchanting vocals and high heels complete the package while her brother, John, plays drums and carries the equipment. I say this as someone who walks in his shoes. Hotel Reverie has a pretty active calender.
Nod closed the show in style while a cowboy walked in circles in front of the stage. Maybe tomorrow I’ll post some video of that performance.
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I keep waiting for an appropriate place to insert this observation but never can find any here. Oh well, I never majored in ‘relevance’ at school. So (and probably people have known this for months) – the city has a bunch of mega-posters showing the joys of city life in the empty windows of abandoned buildings.
In the first, old McCurdy’s window (Paul, remember when we were on the “Inside on the Outside” ((groan)) with Jerry Carr in ’67? It was a weather show almost at the same spot) … anyway (is this thing on!?!) there’s a huge pix of Jeff Munsen talking to someone else I’ve seen at your shows. Is this old news?
It’s sort of old news. The photo is from the ’07, or was it the ’08, Jazz Festival and it’s been up on the McCurdy’s window about a year. I’m glad people are still picking up on it. The Big Picture people just recently repaired the section that was torn by where Jeff is standing.