M is for Monday. M is for Music.

i easily forget that one of the things that makes me happiest is enjoying live music. a band that I love. a new band that is great. a friend's band. my sister's. and i stand there (well, i was sitting tonight but i usually stand) soaking it up. it's true i don't understand what they're saying half the time, but it's the bassist giving that beat and the drummer giving that energy and the singer giving that voice, which can be so filled with love and hate and sadness and jealousy and fear and excitement and surprise... it's all these elements together, live, in front of your very eyes that can be so very amazing.

often, i'll cry.

not necessarily because i'm sad or upset or even "feel their pain", but because that's the only way to express what i'm feeling listening to the music. sometimes i bob my head. sometimes i dance and rock out. but sometimes i cry.

tonight was Emily Haines and the Soft Skeletons at the Great American Music Hall. her voice just dives right into your heart. her lyrics can be a little weird, but i know she's being satirical some of the time. that's one of the things that makes her great-- she's not all serious all the time.
and the other half she has some pretty interesting things to say, which is more than you can say about a lot of groups out there, which i'm sure i'll vent about it some future blog. so, to help point you all in the right direction i thought i'd post a few upcoming shows that hopefully i can go to and you all can, too:

2.2/3 The Blow, also at Great American Music Hall.
2.9 Mirah, Bottom of the Hill
2.13 Cake, Zellerbach
3.3 Earlimart, The Independent

let's cry together.