Wednesday
This past Wednesday night I had a very lovely night out with the always uber-fabulous vorpal . We first went to the Nada Surf in-store performance at Sonic Boom. I had been looking forward to this since I'd found out about it on their myspace a couple of weeks prior. Nada Surf's last album The Weight is a Gift has a special place in my cd collection because it has become my go-to album when I'm feeling down since it has the remarkable ability to brighten me up. Starting with the first track, "Concrete Bed", by the time I get to the sixth song on the album, "All is a Game", I'm feeling a lot better. I listened to this album a lot last year.
Nestled in the wood-paneled basement of the record store the performance felt very intimate, even though there were many people there and we were a few "rows" of people back from the stage. I'm not going to recap the evening since frontman Matthew Caws did a great job in a self-review in eye magazine (you have to scroll about halfway down the page to find it). The last song they played was the Meow Meow lullaby, which I have been humming and singing since, much to the chagrin of co-workers and vorpal . If you too want to be humming and/or singing this lullaby for the next while, it has been captured on youtube! You know you want to!
Also, pics and review from chromewaves!
Nada Surf are playing the Opera House on April 7th with What Made Milwaukee Famous, another band I've been listening to a lot lately. And yeah, I don't get their name either, since they're from Texas. But I've been listening to their song "Sweet Lady" like it's going out of style and am really looking forward to the show.
Afterwards we went next door to the Bloor theatre to watch For the Bible Tells Me So, a documentary that I had been looking forward to seeing since they had announced it as the next Doc Soup screening the previous month. Brief synopsis yoinked from their website:
Dan Karslake's provocative, entertaining documentary brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture, and in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the Bible. [...] Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
This documentary is one of the best docs I have ever seen, and I have seen many. Many. It made me sad, it made me angry, it made me thankful, it made me hopeful, and it moved me to tears on more than one occasion. The story of Mary Lou Wallner, whose lesbian daughter committed suicide, really touched me and will stay with me for a long time. I can't recommend this doc highly enough. Trailer:
For the Bible Tells Me So is also playing at the Royal theatre in Little Italy this weekend. Go watch it while you have the chance.
In other news, I have a subconjunctival hemorrhage in my left eye. Next up, eating brains.
Nestled in the wood-paneled basement of the record store the performance felt very intimate, even though there were many people there and we were a few "rows" of people back from the stage. I'm not going to recap the evening since frontman Matthew Caws did a great job in a self-review in eye magazine (you have to scroll about halfway down the page to find it). The last song they played was the Meow Meow lullaby, which I have been humming and singing since, much to the chagrin of co-workers and vorpal . If you too want to be humming and/or singing this lullaby for the next while, it has been captured on youtube! You know you want to!
Click to viewAlso, pics and review from chromewaves!
Nada Surf are playing the Opera House on April 7th with What Made Milwaukee Famous, another band I've been listening to a lot lately. And yeah, I don't get their name either, since they're from Texas. But I've been listening to their song "Sweet Lady" like it's going out of style and am really looking forward to the show.
Afterwards we went next door to the Bloor theatre to watch For the Bible Tells Me So, a documentary that I had been looking forward to seeing since they had announced it as the next Doc Soup screening the previous month. Brief synopsis yoinked from their website:
Dan Karslake's provocative, entertaining documentary brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture, and in the process reveals that Church-sanctioned anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a significant (and often malicious) misinterpretation of the Bible. [...] Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
This documentary is one of the best docs I have ever seen, and I have seen many. Many. It made me sad, it made me angry, it made me thankful, it made me hopeful, and it moved me to tears on more than one occasion. The story of Mary Lou Wallner, whose lesbian daughter committed suicide, really touched me and will stay with me for a long time. I can't recommend this doc highly enough. Trailer:
For the Bible Tells Me So is also playing at the Royal theatre in Little Italy this weekend. Go watch it while you have the chance.
In other news, I have a subconjunctival hemorrhage in my left eye. Next up, eating brains.