Belated Bjork Post
Okay, so I never made a post about the Bjork show. I've been waiting for Lindsay to get me copies of the photos we took, and she still hasn't done that. Oh well.
Lyndsay, Lindsay, Cole, and I met up around 5pm and headed out of Sac. We made pretty good time to Shoreline, parked, and then sat and drank most of a bottle of vodka before heading in (we put the remainder of the vodka into a flask). It was not quite 8pm when we went in (the show started at 7:30pm), and we expected that the first opener--Ghostigital--would still be playing. We glanced up to a screen and were shocked to see that Joanna Newsom was already playing, so we rushed quickly to our seats. I think we only missed her first song. Her set was awesome, and when it came time for her to sing Peach, Plum, Pear, it just so happened that we were eating a peach that Lindsay had brought. How many people can say they ate a peach while that song was being performed live? (I know, we're total nerds).
It didn't take long for Bjork to go on. First, the members of her band (which included an all-girl brass band) came out on stage and then she came out and opened with Earth Intruders. She continued on to play much of her new album, with a good mix of songs from her earlier ones, too. When it came time for The Dull Flame of Desire, I nervously waited to see if Antony would be joining her on stage as he had done for her New York shows. Sadly, he didn't, but the song was still great. During some songs, one member of Bjork's band was using a large circular device with a green digital screen on top on which he placed little squares with symbols on them that kinda resembled runes. He would put the squares at different places on the screen, and green lines would connect the different squares in different ways. Okay, that was a very poor description of it ... but whatever the thing was, we all thought it was really cool. Bjork's final song was Declare Independence, which may be my favourite song on her new album. It was awesome live. Sadly, her set went by extremely fast, and it was time to leave all too soon.
We left the show with a ton of energy, so we decided to head into SF for a while. We wound up at a bar off of Valencia called the Elbo Room, and we had a couple of drinks there and went upstairs and listened to a random Brazillian band that was playing there. At one point, Lindsay and I were at the bottom of the stairs and witnessed a member of the band fall down the stairs. He stood up, approached us saying, "Man, I jumped that landing!" (???) and then looked back and forth between the two of us before pointing at me and telling Lindsay, "Hang on to this guy, he's the fucking man." Haha. We left the stairwell and found Lyndsay and Cole playing with a photobooth, so the four of us tried to cram into it and take a series of pictures. I'll post those at the end of the post.
We left at 2am, and Lyndsay was somewhat drunk. She spouted off a bunch of random funny things that, for the sake of her embarrassment, I won't say (love you, Lyndsay. Haha). Lindsay was tired, so I drove her car home. We dropped Cole off at home, and then headed back to my house with Lyndsay sleeping in the back seat. Lindsay and I went up to our porch for a few minutes, where Jay, Andrea, and Casey were hanging out. A somewhat drunk and stoned Casey managed to catch Lindsay's hair on fire, which was both scary and extremely funny at the same time. Lyndsay called me from the backseat of the car at this point, asking us to take her back to Cole's. I told her to hang on because Lindsay was on fire, we dealt with the situation, and then I took her back. We hung out for a bit with Casey, Jay, and Andrea, then called it a night.
It was quite a fun and eventful night.
Photobooth pictures follow, and whenever I get the other pictures from Lindsay, I'll post them.
I have other things to post about in the next day or two, too.
Cole and Lyndsay
All four of us
Lyndsay, Lindsay, Cole, and I met up around 5pm and headed out of Sac. We made pretty good time to Shoreline, parked, and then sat and drank most of a bottle of vodka before heading in (we put the remainder of the vodka into a flask). It was not quite 8pm when we went in (the show started at 7:30pm), and we expected that the first opener--Ghostigital--would still be playing. We glanced up to a screen and were shocked to see that Joanna Newsom was already playing, so we rushed quickly to our seats. I think we only missed her first song. Her set was awesome, and when it came time for her to sing Peach, Plum, Pear, it just so happened that we were eating a peach that Lindsay had brought. How many people can say they ate a peach while that song was being performed live? (I know, we're total nerds).
It didn't take long for Bjork to go on. First, the members of her band (which included an all-girl brass band) came out on stage and then she came out and opened with Earth Intruders. She continued on to play much of her new album, with a good mix of songs from her earlier ones, too. When it came time for The Dull Flame of Desire, I nervously waited to see if Antony would be joining her on stage as he had done for her New York shows. Sadly, he didn't, but the song was still great. During some songs, one member of Bjork's band was using a large circular device with a green digital screen on top on which he placed little squares with symbols on them that kinda resembled runes. He would put the squares at different places on the screen, and green lines would connect the different squares in different ways. Okay, that was a very poor description of it ... but whatever the thing was, we all thought it was really cool. Bjork's final song was Declare Independence, which may be my favourite song on her new album. It was awesome live. Sadly, her set went by extremely fast, and it was time to leave all too soon.
We left the show with a ton of energy, so we decided to head into SF for a while. We wound up at a bar off of Valencia called the Elbo Room, and we had a couple of drinks there and went upstairs and listened to a random Brazillian band that was playing there. At one point, Lindsay and I were at the bottom of the stairs and witnessed a member of the band fall down the stairs. He stood up, approached us saying, "Man, I jumped that landing!" (???) and then looked back and forth between the two of us before pointing at me and telling Lindsay, "Hang on to this guy, he's the fucking man." Haha. We left the stairwell and found Lyndsay and Cole playing with a photobooth, so the four of us tried to cram into it and take a series of pictures. I'll post those at the end of the post.
We left at 2am, and Lyndsay was somewhat drunk. She spouted off a bunch of random funny things that, for the sake of her embarrassment, I won't say (love you, Lyndsay. Haha). Lindsay was tired, so I drove her car home. We dropped Cole off at home, and then headed back to my house with Lyndsay sleeping in the back seat. Lindsay and I went up to our porch for a few minutes, where Jay, Andrea, and Casey were hanging out. A somewhat drunk and stoned Casey managed to catch Lindsay's hair on fire, which was both scary and extremely funny at the same time. Lyndsay called me from the backseat of the car at this point, asking us to take her back to Cole's. I told her to hang on because Lindsay was on fire, we dealt with the situation, and then I took her back. We hung out for a bit with Casey, Jay, and Andrea, then called it a night.
It was quite a fun and eventful night.
Photobooth pictures follow, and whenever I get the other pictures from Lindsay, I'll post them.
I have other things to post about in the next day or two, too.
Cole and Lyndsay
All four of us