Hipsters

I haven't updated in a bit so here goes: In the past two weeks or so many many great artists have been in Pittsburgh lecturing and I had the opportunity to see them all!

1. Marjane Satrapi, aka Ms. Persepolis, came to talk at Carnegie Music Hall and she was what I expect Zaha Hadid to be- a rebellious chainsmoking diva. She explained her life/graphic novel and I guess I didn't learn much new but still cool to meet the person that wrote such a book.




2. Spike Lee oppositely wasn't such a joy to see. I don't know what I expected but this punk was a fresh condescending reincarnation of the Rev Al Sharpton. He had me so angry just because he was soo icky. When a fan asked him a question about a movie he simply replied "Don't you have netflix? Watch the movie. Next question.". What a little diva.




3. Andrew Bird was scrumptious. On top of his good looks and oozing charisma, he was a pretty awesome musician. One minute he was pizzicato on the violin, the next arco at full strength... then all of a sudden he'll whip out an electric guitar and start strumming away all while using that beautiful voice of his. Droolworthy performance.



4. Aaron Betsky, architect extraordinare was pretty interesting as well. I had to leave his lecture early to go to Satrapi's but I stayed long enough to hear his extended comparisons of architecture to sex. Sexchitecture- very nice.