Attack With Love

this morning, i was going down the escalator at the station and these crusty old hags in front of me were blocking the way.... stand on left, walk on right is the rule. then, in macedonian one said to the other "isnt it funny when you stand like this and the people behind cant get through, ha ha?"

 

SO, understanding the language, i replied in macedonian "no it not - get a move on"

 

that shut them up and turned their faces red

that reminds me of the david sedaris story in Me Talk Pretty One Day where he was on the train in Paris and some American tourists were talking about him about how all Parisians were pick-pockets and he was trying to steal from them hhaha. that one was one of my favorites.

Did anyone else catch this? Wow, what a spectacle.

 

The people in the audience were almost as interesting as the ones on stage. All the freaks were out to play, it was incredible.

 

Peaches' drummer is amazing. I was mesmerized by her the entire show. And that's saying a lot, considering the freak show all around us.

hahah my friend and i looked up when it was because we wanted to go see it, but it was that night, so we couldn't make it . not too surprising about the people and such,i think it'd be such a weird concert experience. glad she was good (actually, was she? you onlyu talked about her drummer...glad she was good!). any pics of the peach and/or the fans? sounds interesting...

soup that doesnt dissolve properly in your cup

or soup that gets that gross layer of goop on top

I started that one last night. Sounds like I could finish it today, hah?

perhaps, perhaps. you know the consequences if you don't though.

I read this in about 4 hours one evening last month. Loved it. I think I'm going to make my 9th graders read it as outside reading this next year.

yeah i think i got it done in like 6 hours haha, it was a quick, fun read in my opinion. i think it's interesting enough for a 9th grader (coming from me, who is 16), especially with the format of the whole thing, it's not set up like a typical novel obviously. my sister's in 9th grade and i'm making her read it haha.

NR:

Franz Kafka-the metamorphosis, in the penal colony, and other short stories. had this one for a while, never got around to it.

yay, i finally got to read some over my vacation and got through:

the curious incident of the dog in the night-time-mark haddon

still life with woodpecker-tom robbins (weird, but awesome awesome book)

dress your family in corduroy and denim- david sedaris

children playing before a statue of hercules- short stories compiled by david sedaris

the rum diaries- hunter s. thompson

it was a very good run of books and i loved all of them, all very much recommended

thanks so much, i can't wait to hear all those new tracks!! i've been a lil out of the loop the past month travelling and such and wasn't aware of how many new songs are being played in the recent shows! very exciting. thanks again.

about to start this on my trip tomorrow

Tom Robbins- Still Life With Woodpecker

And have this on the "next up" list I'll be bringing on vacation next week:

 

that's on my next up list too, and i will also be bringing it with me on vacation next week! whoa!!

i just started:

it's actually the first i've read from Sedaris. i dunno, i love the way it reads (it's so easy and entertaining), but i don't know how hilarious it is. either way, perfect for a bored night at home, i'll prolly even end up finishing it tonight or tomorrow.

was that other song "tuesday morning"? i could be wrong, but it seems like it was.

nah, tuesday morning was in the regular set

didn't get home til late and am still so tired, so i'll just post both setlists for everyone

Court & Spark (might not be the full name of some songs, i wasn't familiar with their music):

Sundowner

Out On The Water

Cool Me Down

Fireworks

Lucia

Bright Phoesus (?)

Let's Get High

Mother Lightning

Rooster Mountain

Piece On Earth

Capaldi

Autumn Defense:

We Would Never Die

Tuesday Morning

Simple Explaination

City Bells

Sun In California

Where You Are

Spend Your Life

The Answer

Winterlight

Iowa City Adeiu

About To Change

Feel U Now

The World Will Soon Turn Our Way

Nothin At All

Encore:

Bluebirds Fall

another song (i forget which one)

Written In The Snow

i've never really watched soccer, but i'm going to be in germany during the world cup this summer so i'm thinking by the time i get home i'm giong to have to be very into it. we have time set aside almost every night for going somewhere and watching soccer haha. it's going to be crazy, i'm excited to see what it's all about.

Here's the New Pornographers set list (at least it's what's on their actual setlist...i think there was a request or two thrown in...)

Star Bodies

Use It

Breakin' The Law

The Bleeding Heart Show

jackie, dressed in cobras

mass romantic

testament to youth in verse

miss teen wordpower

fake headlines

twin cinema

streets of fire

it's only divine right

slow decent into alcoholism

sing me spanish techno

letter from an occupant

hmmm...range life, blue arrangemnts(a joos song!), shoot the singer and trigger cut would be cool. i thought freeze the saints was SM solo off the new one?

yeah it is, it's true the crowd wasn't digging him too much. he was the "special guest" and the shortest set (not by his choosing). i think the jycks would have brought a lot more to his set, but i guess it would be kind of a hassle to get that all together for like 6 songs (about a 1/2 hour). that being said, malkmus has been one of my musical heroes since i was a freshman in high school (okay, that was only two years ago, but still!) and it was awesome seeing him since all the other times he's come near me it's age restricted or something else. i don't think most poeple knew who he was or why people were excited to see him...the people next to me were bashing his lyrics and making fun of him, which made me sad...but whatever, i love him.

MMJ? NP w/ Neko? Malkmus?

 

Great pix, Morgan! I especially like this one:

 

 

My only question - why weren't we there? Was this one of those student-only things?

 

Carl Broemel, MMJ's multi-instrumentalist you have pictured above, is amazing. We were standing right in front of him, too, one time and witnessed him in action - sax, guitar, lap steel.

 

And FWIW, it looks like the beard/hair-trimming shears have reached as far as MMJ (not Jim James, but the bass player looks all tamed).

it waas a really last minute thing, we heard rumours of malkmus and new pornographers earlier in the week, but honestly didn't find info on it til yesterday morning. morgs called me at like 12:30 and said that MMJ wasw playing too and we called later and they said it was students-only in rules but not in practice, because they had a bunch of tickets left. i wish it was more official so you guys could come up, but how much would it have sucked if it wasnt real or you couldn't get in? morgs almost ruined it for me and her by waiting for me to lie that we were undergrads when they asked, it was like silent for a few seconds after the lady asked us hahah. anyways, just woke up from a dream about neko (she seriously made the frickin night.) and i still can't believe two of my musical idols (malkmus, neko) were there. i've never gotten the chance to see either of them (frickin 18+ shows...) but i was just so happy i made it. they should really play that lineup on a tour is all i'm saying. all star for sure.

i would love to have a live neko show, but am not a torrent-er. if anyone wants to do a b&p or a YSI exchange, that'd be awesome. and those pics are excellent.

the g-nug carpet is probably the best part of the whole set. any way you could score me one?!

oh my god, i would kill for that rug. me and casinoqueen will go in together in a letters for santa bid for that rug.

oh yeah. cool concert.

Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos. He's hilarious.

my friend just lent me like 5 of his books. should be a fun few weeks.

You've got to read "Ham On Rye". It's a raw, gritty autobiography of his early years. That said, I think Pulp is my favorite. The way it's a normal story and then at the end it goes all psycho with talking birds and everything.....awesome.

yeah, and the fact that it was his last book and (in my opinion) very different than the rest of his work i find very interesting. i like that most of his work is complex but a quick read. i'll put Ham On Rye next on my list

Oooooh, Bukowski.

my boyfriend is a huge bukowski freak, so i borrow his books all the time. i've only read this one, pulp, war all the time, and post office. now that i have more time to read though, i'll surely dig deeper.

elizabeth anka vajagic. plus she has a beautiful voice

mmk, what's an RSS feed?

i know you've been avoiding this since we stopped around 5 today...but try studying math. i swear it puts you right to sleep..

no. there's no way i'm studying math anymore than we did today. watching south park is more productive at this point.

oh yeah, the living room show was awesome. (that's what this thread is about...right?)

hahah well, TECHNICALLY not the first time....i seem to remember a certain night where we went to see beck, erin and i had to take our cameras back to our friend's car and, for some ODD ODD reason, decided it would be nice of us to move the car to a parking spot closer to the venue. well. we spent about 20 minutes backing out of/into the only spot left for blocks, the front of the car sticking halfway out into the lane next to us, while being laughed at by a homeless man on the sidewalk watching the whole escapade. eventually erin's adept driving skills and my attempts to talk her through it pulled through and we managed to fit into that stupid spot. and we even made it back in time to see mcrory open! i think the whole thing must have taken about 45 minutes...and im not sure erin had even gotten her license yet...

 

oh man. and to think i had almost forgotten about that night...i love ya erin!

oh man, that was a pretty funny thing, i would have loved watching that (if i wasn't the one driving). okay okay, edie's was the first time i parallel parked without frustration and within 5 minutes hahah. go to bed morgan, we have final exams tomorrow (i can't sleep...i tried!)