Wednesday night three of my friends and I went on an adventure - and yes it was an adventure...crappy googlemap directions + a navigationally challenged navigator (we still love her anyway!!) = an hour and a half to get to a destination that is 1 hour 4 minutes away. We went to see Cartel at Mr. Smalls Theatre, a pretty nifty little church-turned-music-venue place. It was soooooo (yes, i know the extra o's are somewhat annoying and so 9th grade, but in this case it is quite necessary) AMAZING!! Perhaps because I'm very partial to Cartel, but even my friend Alex, who's not crazy about them like I am, thought they were great. RC Static, a local Pittsburgh band who opened for them, was really good too. Good enough to get their CD for only $3 =]

Tonight was quite....an experience, to say the least. APB brought in a Scottish man named Stevie Starr, otherwise known as The Regurgitator. And oh my, his name does not lie! He proceeded to thrill (and disgust!) us for an hour by swallowing all manner of objects including a billiard ball, light bulb, rubiks cube (in perfect, out mixed up), coins, rings, and live goldfish. He swallowed butane gas and then blew fire throughout the night using a lighter. He downed a guy's ring, a locked padlock, and a key, and proceeded to - in his stomach - unlock the lock, put it through the ring, lock it, and spit back up the lock around the ring and then the key separately! He swallowed one of the goldfish, an empty film canister, it's lid, and then put the goldfish into the canister with water and the lid back on it before spitting it back out and handing it to a member of the audience to open and find the fish. Other acts included swallowing a small balloon and a nail, popped the balloon in his stomach (you could hear it pop!!), and spit both back out, and attaching 8 out of 10 (because we told him 8) thumb tacks to a magnet and spitting the other two out. It was absolutely INSANE...I think everyone in the audience didn't know whether to throw up or what after watching that...it was one of those extremely fascinating gross things that you just can't look away. And then you left completely flabbergasted as to how in God's name he did that...because he would swallow things and then keep talking and spit something else up, so it didn't have to be in order, and he wasn't hiding it anywhere in his mouth...wow. just wow. You really can't explain it to someone...you have to watch it. Check it out on youtube, it's not the same as seeing it live, but it's much better than reading it!

and on that note, I shall bid you adieu!