A good friend and I went to see Cyndi Lauper at the Paramount last night. It was a lot of fun. Prior to the show, I was speed hooking a baby blanket while she and I chatted. When the show started, I tried to put everything back in the bag and managed to drop my hook on the sloped theatre floor. This wouldn’t have been a big deal with any other hook, but this was my perfectly round $8 speed hook. I waited for the intermission and then paced up and down the aisles obviously searching for something until a couple of ladies asked if I’d lost something and held up the hook. So, in case you are wondering how far a crochet hook will roll on the Paramount floor, the answer is 3 rows.


David Rhodes opened for Cyndi Lauper. He’s an extremely talented guitarist (Peter Gabriel’s guitarist since 1979). His singing, however, didn’t speak to me. The auto-tuning on his guitar broke just before the show and I actually preferred to watch him tune his guitar rather than singing creepy songs about his beekeeping. Him telling us he couldn’t tell jokes with his accent while trying to tune and talking to his guitar was actually funny.

Cyndi was great! She’s totally cute and energetic and has a great voice. She sang several of the songs off her new album and updated versions of some of her classics. She managed to stand on a front row chair while singing and danced all night long. She was coordinating her next song at one point and a guy in the audience yelled, “Goonies never say die!” and the whole crowd errupted with cheering. A whole place full of Goonie lovers = good times!