can't let you roam inside my head...

a few things that are amusing me this evening...



for some reason, i think this is hilarious. at about 5:40, some lady with a terrible voice starts singing along and glen kind of stops and wags his finger and keeps going. a few seconds later, she starts again and glen says something, the beginning of which i cannot for the life of me decipher and marketa cracks up. then the lady says something like, "if people would sing i wouldn't have to sing so loudly." glen has a blank look on his face for a second, but without meeting a beat he says, "jesus. do you talk to your tv too?"

this website. while it is not about music, it is about being a fan (of the red sox, in this case). i am finding that i enjoy reading people's blogs about things i don't even care about, because it is interesting to read about the way others express thier fandom (is that a word?), if that makes sense. plus she seems to have a little obsession with josh beckett, of which i approve, and the graphic of him in her post for today is cracking me up.

the grand archives. i especially like the song swan matches. sometimes i feel like i don't listen to enough new music (i need to expand my musical horizons, me thinks). it seems like every time i listen to KEXP, for example, i hear a new band and think to myself that i should check them out but then i get discouraged because there is never enough time to listen to all the stuff i want to, so i don't. but, seriously, of all the bands i saw at the subpop thing a few weeks ago, i think that they might have been my favorite.

i'll be in my own dance

i had an AMAZING time in boston. it's good to be home, and sad to be home at the same time. i'm happy to be back in my routine of daily life (i went grocery shopping this afternoon; although tomorrow when i go back to work, i may be singing a different tune). pearl jam was, of course, incredible (and that's an understatement). i have purposefully not read any reviews of their shows, because i don't want them to cloud my own memories. one thing that i learned is that i will never be a rock photographer - by and large, my pictures of the concert turned out horribly, but that's okay, it was still fun taking them. honestly, i was so happy with my seat (until a few weeks ago, i thought i would be sitting in the very last row of the last section) that i had to force myself to put away my camera so that i could enjoy the show.

i think there are very few things in the world that can make me feel the way a pearl jam concert makes me feel; i don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. does that make sense? i am completely in the moment, singing along with the crowd, not caring what other people think of me because they are all doing the same thing.

i took some paper and a pen with me to write down notes during the show, but my plans for doing that never seem to work out. i didn't go to saturday's show, but i used the hotel's business center to check the setlist sunday morning, and a little bit of me died when i saw that they opened with hard to imagine. why couldn't they have saved that for one more day? but, i swear, as soon as i heard the opening notes of wash last monday, i was in another world. and for some reason, songs that i've listened to a hundred times seemed to take one new lives - the lyrics for education, for example, seemed to hit home in an unexpected way. and when jeff and ed played bee girl, i think i might have even started to cry. i'm not sure why - it's not a great song, or anything - but there was just something about that song at that moment that seemed right.

i'll write a more complete review tomorrow when i'm - hopefully - more awake than i am right now. now, here are some of my admittedly not-so-good pictures. i took the most pictures during the pearl jam show and our tour of fenway park. i think that i may have an obsessive personality - if it's not a band, a movie, or an actor, it's a baseball team. perhaps there are worse things to be in the world than a fan.

our restarant in cambridge. i liked the name; can you tell why?

rockin in the free world
the rest of my pictures are here.

did you fall on your way?

so i thought i might make a post about something else i'm obsessed with: the red sox. when i was a kid, my dad and i used to take a trip once a summer to fenway park to see a game. if you've never been to fenway park, it's magical (see fever pitch, the movie based partly on the book by the brilliantly hilarious nick hornby). so anyway, last year when the red sox won the world series, i was really happy. and i found this website around that time - http://www.outincenterfield.com - and now, with spring training about to begin, i decided to have a look at it again. even if you don't like the red sox, i think that the way she writes is quite entertaining. plus, she posts lots of pictures, and baseball players are not bad looking. i am sure that part of my love for the red sox is borne out of a fascination with boston. if i ever were to move from seattle, i think it would be to boston. it's a great city. plus, boston accents crack me up. as a matter of fact, i hope that pearl jam or the frames play in boston, so that i can justify a trip there this summer. haha

i am so tired - the week has felt like a month. i don't know why, but it has. maybe that's why i totally did not get lost tonight. what is going on??! i liked that it focused on desmond, but he spent too much of the episode in short hair. past desmond is not nearly as cute as future desmond. against my better judgement, i closed my eyes and ended up falling asleep and missed a little bit - what was going on with the auction? so penny's father bought some mysterious journal from the black rock ship? hmmm... so some people are able to time travel, but there are "side effects" ? i love that. i have to think about it some more..

i have my hotel reservation booked for vancouver, my plane reservations for san francisco in april.. i am so excited! eddie vedder, plus 2 swell season shows coming up! march is going to be very long.. plus, right after i get back from vancouver, my parents and i are going to go to memphis. i've always wanted to go to graceland.