everywhere i go damn there i am
Mar. 8th, 2003 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryiarrosewell shit. now the dryer won't work. i wonder what happened. this means i'll have to call la vern. damn it. and he'll probably try to blame us.
a bit ago sorcha was sitting in the door looking at me with her forehead wrinkled or her eyebrows pulled together or something. a very perplexed look that i didn't think it was possible for a cat to make. she's really a terribly cool cat. and she always knows what i'm talking about. gets kind of eerie. but that's part of why she's my cat and why i love her.
my playlist is on shuffle and it's pulling up a bunch of the tracks i recorded at the first solo ben folds show i saw last year. (10/01) i'm always surprised and amazed at what a fucking incredible musician that man is and how awe-some he is live. it's almost like i forget when i don't listen to him for awhile.
in one of the tracks you can hear me tell sarah how much dave (myers, a brilliant keyboardist/pianist ex of mine) would be enjoying the show. he was a huge ben folds five fan who kind of got disillusioned after reinhold messner came out. and justifiably so. we saw them on that tour and i really think they needed to go their separate ways. they'd just lost the energy and passion that had made them such a terrific band.
when ben folds went solo he recaptured everything that the band had lost. he found the magic again. i can remember watching him from the second row at first ave. during his first song or so and just seeing this expression cross over his face that was like, 'yeah. this just might work.' it was obvious that he was learning to love what he was doing again and that the audience was a big part of it.
now dave, had to be convinced to listen to rockin' the suburbs. in fact, i was the one that got him a copy and gave it to him along with a copy of the live show-- which he wanted because of the older bff songs on it. told him to listen to the new album first because he'd appreciate the show more if he did. he was skeptical that it could be as good as any of the early stuff. but he listened, and became what i'd equate to a born-again fan. loved the recording. loved the album. agreed with me completely. went and saw him on the 'ben folds and a piano' tour later that year and called me to rave about it afterwards.
i will always regret that my mini disc busted for that tour. i'd dropped it but it seemed like it was working fine... recorded the entire show- and carefully this time- or so it seemed. tried to see how it had come out when i got home and after thinking for a minute, the screen flashed 'blank disc' up at me despite the fact that it had previously contained an hour or so of protected recording. so unfair. ben even played things just for me! (like when he was going to play fred jones pt. 2 and two of us got him to play cigarette first... it breaks my heart that i don't have that) it easily makes the list of top five concerts i've been to (along with the fall show) in terms of both great music and enjoyment. such a tragedy that the recording was lost. it still makes me want to wail with despair whenever i think about it.
then there's the fact that i couldn't afford to catch him when he toured this fall to push the live album that i've also been too strapped to get. i look forward to the day when i once again have a job that pays me well enough to support my cd and concert habit. because i've been in serious withdrawal for far too long now. and it sucks sucks sucks.
it's funny, but i guess this post proves what a big fan i am. sometimes i either forget that or it doesn't occur to me or something. i mean, yes i get defensive when people don't appreciate him and/or bff, but it surprises me how capable i am of just rattling on. and how does that affect his place in my list of favorite musicians? does it mean i'm more involved or interested in him than others, or just that he's more accessible, or does it have to do with him being a smaller scale artist and my need to champion those musicians that people have heard of but should know more of? i mean, i love tori. but i don't think i'd ever go on about her like this. whereas rufus wainwright or lisa loeb, elliott smith or jill sobule i would. bjork too, although she falls into kind of a different category. anyhow. strange. something to think about.
i've gone on farther than i perhaps needed to. but there's something to documenting thought... a certain appeal sometimes.
summary points from all of my babbling. if you liked the earlier ben folds five stuff, check out ben folds solo album. if you like anything he's been involved with even a little and get the chance to see him live, don't hesitate for a second. i'd say he's one of the best live performers around right now. consistently so. you can check him out here. *whew*
on a completely unrelated note, i missed the accidentals concert tonight. i think that's the first one i've missed for any reason other than being half-way across the country. i'm a terrible person, and it's my own loss. deadlines suck.
a bit ago sorcha was sitting in the door looking at me with her forehead wrinkled or her eyebrows pulled together or something. a very perplexed look that i didn't think it was possible for a cat to make. she's really a terribly cool cat. and she always knows what i'm talking about. gets kind of eerie. but that's part of why she's my cat and why i love her.
my playlist is on shuffle and it's pulling up a bunch of the tracks i recorded at the first solo ben folds show i saw last year. (10/01) i'm always surprised and amazed at what a fucking incredible musician that man is and how awe-some he is live. it's almost like i forget when i don't listen to him for awhile.
in one of the tracks you can hear me tell sarah how much dave (myers, a brilliant keyboardist/pianist ex of mine) would be enjoying the show. he was a huge ben folds five fan who kind of got disillusioned after reinhold messner came out. and justifiably so. we saw them on that tour and i really think they needed to go their separate ways. they'd just lost the energy and passion that had made them such a terrific band.
when ben folds went solo he recaptured everything that the band had lost. he found the magic again. i can remember watching him from the second row at first ave. during his first song or so and just seeing this expression cross over his face that was like, 'yeah. this just might work.' it was obvious that he was learning to love what he was doing again and that the audience was a big part of it.
now dave, had to be convinced to listen to rockin' the suburbs. in fact, i was the one that got him a copy and gave it to him along with a copy of the live show-- which he wanted because of the older bff songs on it. told him to listen to the new album first because he'd appreciate the show more if he did. he was skeptical that it could be as good as any of the early stuff. but he listened, and became what i'd equate to a born-again fan. loved the recording. loved the album. agreed with me completely. went and saw him on the 'ben folds and a piano' tour later that year and called me to rave about it afterwards.
i will always regret that my mini disc busted for that tour. i'd dropped it but it seemed like it was working fine... recorded the entire show- and carefully this time- or so it seemed. tried to see how it had come out when i got home and after thinking for a minute, the screen flashed 'blank disc' up at me despite the fact that it had previously contained an hour or so of protected recording. so unfair. ben even played things just for me! (like when he was going to play fred jones pt. 2 and two of us got him to play cigarette first... it breaks my heart that i don't have that) it easily makes the list of top five concerts i've been to (along with the fall show) in terms of both great music and enjoyment. such a tragedy that the recording was lost. it still makes me want to wail with despair whenever i think about it.
then there's the fact that i couldn't afford to catch him when he toured this fall to push the live album that i've also been too strapped to get. i look forward to the day when i once again have a job that pays me well enough to support my cd and concert habit. because i've been in serious withdrawal for far too long now. and it sucks sucks sucks.
it's funny, but i guess this post proves what a big fan i am. sometimes i either forget that or it doesn't occur to me or something. i mean, yes i get defensive when people don't appreciate him and/or bff, but it surprises me how capable i am of just rattling on. and how does that affect his place in my list of favorite musicians? does it mean i'm more involved or interested in him than others, or just that he's more accessible, or does it have to do with him being a smaller scale artist and my need to champion those musicians that people have heard of but should know more of? i mean, i love tori. but i don't think i'd ever go on about her like this. whereas rufus wainwright or lisa loeb, elliott smith or jill sobule i would. bjork too, although she falls into kind of a different category. anyhow. strange. something to think about.
i've gone on farther than i perhaps needed to. but there's something to documenting thought... a certain appeal sometimes.
summary points from all of my babbling. if you liked the earlier ben folds five stuff, check out ben folds solo album. if you like anything he's been involved with even a little and get the chance to see him live, don't hesitate for a second. i'd say he's one of the best live performers around right now. consistently so. you can check him out here. *whew*
on a completely unrelated note, i missed the accidentals concert tonight. i think that's the first one i've missed for any reason other than being half-way across the country. i'm a terrible person, and it's my own loss. deadlines suck.
