this is the first time i have posted anything on here. i am doubtful that i can convey what i am feeling. in order to understand you have to see the look of ectasy on my face. i smiled for so long last night that i went to bed with a headache. but it was well worth it. i am, of course, talking about last night's wilco show at the wiltern. they put me in rapture, my friends, rapture. they opened with "the late greats" (matt's favorite off that album) and did not stop rocking all night. each song flowed into the next, interrupted occasionally by jeff tweedy being funny and making the experience all the more intimate. at the beginning of every song matt and i would shake each other and exlaim "i love this song. i'm so glad they're playing this one." i confess that i may have done a bit more of the shaking and exlaiming than matt. but even if their set list had been different the result would have been the same because every song of theirs is fabulous and they played so so well. (if i knew how to italicize on this thing the words so so would be in italics) they did two encores with at least four songs each. they even played a song off of mermaid avenue. they ended (why did it have to end?) with a cover of blue oyster cult's "don't fear the reaper"; it was amazing and my mom would have loved it.
so as you can tell, it was a perfect show. i haven't been that giddy since my wedding day.
i will end with some equalities. wilco=disneyland=ice cream=buttefly-tingly joy! -a
2 comments:
that sounds awesome,and in that I'm jealous. But more so, it makes me so excited and even a bit giddy to hear that people still get lost and excited about new music. there is hope for one of the most exciting and beautiful forms of expression that seemed as though it was wilting....
i'm listening to wilco all day today at work!
j
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