Tonight was the unexpected brand of awesome but still awesome kind of awesome. Natalie and I adventured to the Louisville Loves Mountains festival on Longest Ave next to Heine Brothers. Unexpected events of the evening included (1) walking up to the event seeing 300 people there (as opposed to 30) and (2) witnessing the birth, life and death of a severe thunderstorm right overhead (3) one of the bluegrass band member's all red outfit without shoes walking around in serious Kentucky fashion. We heard about a song and a half from the aforementioned man in red pants' band before the storm. We also heard a man from eastern Kentucky talking about for the need for a change in the economy. Said change will ideally save miners from over exposure to the things that cause black lung disease and a shift from coal power to solar and wind power. This guy was awesome and pounded the point that either people will commit to the planet and undergo a very real transformation or watch everything die. He talked about finding a man who lives on 6000 a year in a very secluded holler in eastern Kentucky who has, in preparation for the future, begun operating his space heater and other things on energy from the sun. Interesting considering all the city folk are too positive solar energy is inefficient or too expensive. It was good to see that at least some people in Louisville are worried about something a bit removed from our local environment here. Maybe people will be transformed and the coal industry will crumble for the ultimate benefit of the workers it kills off. Jobs have to be somewhere else for these people. In the mean time awareness must be spread and bluegrass music accompanied by good beer and good coffee is a smart way to go about things. Even if girls who do not shave their armpits still bother me. I wonder if it is wrong that it bothers me. But it still bothers me; gross.