The Portfolios

The Stones concert Saturday night was totally awesome, just the absolute standard for what a rock and roll show is supposed to be. They came out with “Start Me Up” and went through dozens of classics, including “Can’t Always Get What You Want”, “Happy”, “Gimme Shelter” and so many others I’ve forgotten. They also threw in a few of their new songs, but usually kept those to the universally popular, like “Love is Strong”. They did “Wild Horses” with Cui Jian, the Godfather of Chinese Rock, who was on the first cover of Chinese Rolling Stone. And they did two encores, the first of which I forgot, and the second of which was “Satisfaction”. We had about 20 friends at the show, we were all sitting together and we rented a bus to take us to and from the concert! That bus turned out to be a great call, because after the show, most people were fighting for cabs in the rain, while we continued the party on the tour bus! Above photo by Charlie Xia.

I bought Yoyo a new phone as an early birthday present, because hers was falling apart and I just couldn’t wait 10 more days to give it to her. One of its cool new features is that is has a camera that takes digital pictures and video. Unfortunately, we can’t yet figure out how to upload photos to the computer, so you can’t yet see a very cool picture of Eli, who was back in town this week, playing our regular Wednesday gig at the Shuffle Bar with us. It was a night to remember, as we went through all the oldies and rocked out in style. As Knut later said, “You guys belong on stage together.”