Things I learned on the just-completed moosebutter tour to Indiana:

-People in S. Indiana / Kentucky are NICE. I’ve met some nice people in my day, but these people are just NICE. Loved the people.

-Teppanyaki Japanese food. Yes, please.

-Louisville: pronounced ‘Loouhvle.’ If you are not from there, you cannot pronounce it correctly.

-Clarksville, IN: 2nd largest clock in the world (next to Big Ben).

-Surprised to open the concert program at the very nice Ogle Center on the Indiana University-Southeast campus, see moosebutter there all red-track suited and jumpy, and to also see a picture of my wife’s cousins, the 5 Browns, concert pianists, scheduled in the same hall next February. Surreal.

-Airport food: EXPENSIVE and almost never particularly good. This is not a new discovery, but one that bears bitter repetition.

-Loouhvle International airport music: Muzak megablend delights. Tacky, tacky piano rendition of ‘Tonight’ from West Side Story, lots of seventies string renditions of pop songs, and James Bond music.

-Chicago Midway airport music: Christmas. All Christmas. Week before Thanksgiving. Really, are we stupid?

Live show pics here.