Wahablog

Just found these guys…Pretty awesome and goofy. The XX are also good – great for a mellow night. I’ll need to get their cd at some point.

The XX:

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This is more of an update than an album review, but I’ll try to do both since I’m about to call it a night.

Basement Jaxx: Scars – It’s been out for over a year now I believe, and I just found it…it is pretty sweet. The title track and a few of the others have this epic movie soundtrack quality about them that makes them extremely fun to listen to in the car or with loud speakers.

Man am I glad to have most of my free time back. Last month was killer! BUT now at least I can do fun things again, like hang out with my friends and go to rallys promoting fear and sanity. Maybe I’ll get the hang of this blogging shlogging business too?

Eid Mubarak…woo for eating again. And unfortunately summer’s ending. That doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy long drives down windy roads with the top down. In fact, the weather’s perfect for that.

Cool photography, songs, and videos:

http://ernestgreene.blogspot.com/

Here’s to driving somewhere you haven’t found yet:

Washed Out – “Hold Out” from John Lipari on Vimeo.

The concerts look so fun…I wanna go! They’re playing near Pittsburgh on Sept. 28. Who’s in?

I saw one of my favorite bands in the world tonight: Depeche Mode, with my sister, at Nissan Pavilion, in Bristow, VA. I wore the t-shirt I got at the very first DM concert I went to when I was about 11-12, in Philly, for their Singles Tour 86-98. The shirt’s black but so faded it had a bit of a charcoal look to it. Good thing I bought a new one tonight.

The concert was so amazing! They played a mix of songs off of various albums, not just the new stuff, which was very refreshing. At the last concert of theirs that I went to, I think they focused too much on their real ‘hits’. This time they played things like ‘It’s No Good’, ‘Walking in my Shoes’, ‘Home’, ‘Fly on the Windscreen’ and ‘In Your Room’, which aren’t their mainstream singles at all. They ended the last encore with ‘Waiting for the Night’, which I think everyone thought was a bit too somber and could have gotten enough of (‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ is their usual ender).

I was the happiest at that concert that I think I’ve been all summer. You know you’re really happy when you can’t wipe the widest smile you’re cracking off of your face. I wasn’t even trying to smile, it just came from nowhere when I heard their synths humming and whining along, making the most beautiful sounds. I’m partial to them, you see. Considering all that’s happened these last few weeks, it was a great night and a great way to forget about the world for an all too short 2.5 hours.

It wasn’t but 20 minutes after the music ended when we were walking back that the solemnity and the dissonance that’s been buzzing in my head these last few weeks returned. I climbed a hill to the lawn section to see what the view was like (lawn seats can be fun), and once on top, I could see the whole stage, the field, and the parking lot. It was peaceful, for the 2nd time that night. It was freeing and restricting. Such joy and that smile ended too soon for me; It was late and we had to get home. Home. I was quickly reminded of everything I have left to do, left to fix that’s broken. Left to remember that I can’t fix.

But you can’t have it all.