french broads, russian revolutionaries, and male prostitutes.
on friday night i drove to asheville, NC to see the decemberists play at the orange peel.
two things:
a.) asheville is really pretty... all up in the mountains with the cool weather and winding roads and a nicer river than the congaree (which runs through columbia.) and the orange peel is a cool cool venue, right across the street from an organic food co-op called "the french broad" which is, i think, the name of the river.
2.) i am in love with the decemberists in a great, hopeless, woeful way. i haven't felt like this about a band since OLP back in highschool.
i didn't get there unreasonably early, but i still got a spot on the rail in the front, and i was surrounded by crazy indie kids, and everyone was really into it, and by the time they played the mariner's revenge song as an encore, we were all jumping up and down and yelling the words. i think if you read the band's biography on their website you can maybe get the gist of their je ne sais quoi.
furthermore, colin put my curiousity to rest about on the bus mall:
colin: that was a song about two male prostitutes.
me: woooohoooo!
colin: but this next song is not.
whole audience: awwwww.
colin: this next song is about a troubled young man trying to convince his beloved to commit suicide with him.
audience: wooooohooooo!
two things:
a.) asheville is really pretty... all up in the mountains with the cool weather and winding roads and a nicer river than the congaree (which runs through columbia.) and the orange peel is a cool cool venue, right across the street from an organic food co-op called "the french broad" which is, i think, the name of the river.
2.) i am in love with the decemberists in a great, hopeless, woeful way. i haven't felt like this about a band since OLP back in highschool.
i didn't get there unreasonably early, but i still got a spot on the rail in the front, and i was surrounded by crazy indie kids, and everyone was really into it, and by the time they played the mariner's revenge song as an encore, we were all jumping up and down and yelling the words. i think if you read the band's biography on their website you can maybe get the gist of their je ne sais quoi.
furthermore, colin put my curiousity to rest about on the bus mall:
colin: that was a song about two male prostitutes.
me: woooohoooo!
colin: but this next song is not.
whole audience: awwwww.
colin: this next song is about a troubled young man trying to convince his beloved to commit suicide with him.
audience: wooooohooooo!