The Many Happenings

Today I went to see The Modern Skirts at AthFest 2008, and had a really great time. I hadn’t heard much of the Modern Skirts before, but they were tonight’s main act and they put on a unique and entertaining show. Their keyboardist was insanely good, running around stage switching instruments and banging on the keyboard. The singer was really good as well, and to me he sounded a bit like John Linnell from They Might Be Giants.

Afterwards we went to a local Waffle House and found it dead empty. The nice as usual waitress in there said that we were the first customers all night. This was obviously due to the fact that everyone was still Downtown partying in the bars and eating at the restaurants closer to there, but it was very eerily familiar to our Six Flags Trip. Even though we all know Waffle House makes a killing in profits on a yearly basis, are music festivals and big local events such as AthFest bad for business out of the central town? Good thing it is only a few nights of the year, or businesses on the outskirts of the city might start to hurt.

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