i'm not ready to talk at length about my trip to montreal yesterday but here are the main lines:
we drove through a pitch dark countryside at 3:30 pm. the rain, aided by strong winds, was making it rough anytime a car passed by. we made it, though.
(i won't even go into how amazing "the love below" really is. i hadn't listened to it yet but the roommate wanted to listen to "hey ya" in the car so i brought it. against my will i even put it in as the first cd we'd listen to on our way to montreal. hot damn! that is some serious shit. and against the rain hitting us every which way (in the dark, no less), it was the most perfect album to put on. some jazzy shit i hadn't expected, and a damn near 4-song coda that seemed a bit long but also very... perfect. one damn fine album by andre 3000.)
cd esoterik.
kind of a letdown because they didn't have death cab for cutie's "we have the facts and we're voting yes" and "the photo album". i'll just have to learn to get cd's when i see them. dammit.
and they overcharged me (i realized this once i got back home -- way too late) - $21.99 for a $12.99 cd. it was an honest mistake but it pisses me off because i can't take it back - i'm 90 minutes away and the receipt doesn't have the album titles so they wouldn't have any way of knowing if i was telling the truth or not. i'm moving on.
so, here are the albums i did manage to get at the store:
death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
bonnie 'prince' billy- i see a darkness / master and everyone
do make say think - winter hymn country hymn secret hymn
spoon - girls can tell
"girls can tell" was a bit of a surprise as i'd been looking for it for a good year now - i even managed to forget about it for the past 6 months. so i decided to get that one instead of the spiritualized cd.
i was a bit disappointed that they didn't have do make say think's "goodbye enemy airship" but after the overcharging incident i'm glad i didn't buy it from them -- constellation put a leaflet inside the new album with all ther albums in it. $13 each -- and that includes shipping and taxes!! i'm so ordering their first two albums this week.
before leaving for montreal i finally managed to snag a copy of ryan adam's "love is hell pt. 1".
finally.
and at the show i got myself a copy of martha wainwright's factory ep (the girl's got a voice).
not a bad day after all, music-wise.
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rufus.
have you ever seen this dude live?
why not?? what's wrong with you, fool?
there's no way i can do justice to this man performing live. you'll just have to experience this for yourselves if you wanna know how it is.
i don't know if this is magnified when he's playing montreal but the man, even when he's so obviously spent from a 4-shows-in-4-days stretch, just puts on a show that, even if there are faults, are always a blast, always a treat to experience.
the shows are never perfect. never. but he takes you in, he's so charming and he barely has to work the crowd; you're just there for him. and it looks like he's 5 again, putting on a show for his folks and friends. not in an obsessive, attention-seeking way - he just loves performing. and i've rarely seen that live in other people, it being so part of his personality and all.
it feels so effortless. there's probably not much effort needed on his part; he was just so obviously born to do this.
that's probably as much as i wanna say right now. words would fail me.
was it the best show i've ever seen? nope (radiohead, montreal, august 2001).
was it the best i've seen from rufus? nope. that was back in 2002 for poses.
did you laugh, shed a tear, think of something else, have four encores and clapped for moe? definitely! yes yes yes!
it's a family affair, in every sense of the word -- all the wainwrights were there, minus dad; but us fans are always welcomed with open arms and treated to one fine ass kids show.
how are his shows outside of montreal? please tell me. i'd really love to know.
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