Decisions

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Mos Def on January 9th at Highline, or Mark Olson and Gary Louris on February 7th at Canegie Hall? I can't afford two $40+ dollar shows (plus train fare) in two months when I probably won't be employed full-time starting next year. On the other hand, since my workplace is reducing my hours in January, I could probably make Mark and Gary's show on February 9th in Sellersville.

The real problem is convincing anyone my own age to come see two sort of folksy guys -- one of whom is old enough to be my father -- touring in support of their reunion CD which is 100% sappy love songs.

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First some history. XD; They always sang love songs, but not sappy ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEHUh329hjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsjdD5FNm64
Really claustrophobic - trapped in harmonies, trapped in a relationship, trapped on this planet.

Or how about those times during the promotion tour for the second album when Gary would try really hard to get through the songs normally and Mark would deliberately angstify them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVVGQjWFg4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAjOfDm-_mw&feature=related

Though what I REALLY loved when I was in middle school was the breakup CD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8750-1-h8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D2Vxs9ex2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqF2dp30Dpo
(This is a difficult CD to like if you aren't fourteen, b/c it's pretty much all like this.)

Skipping over the Bob Ezrin pop CD about owning your depression - not that I don't love it but this is getting long already - there was then a musical rapproachment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7I61J7YJJU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUUCMSIfUHU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVasHGrxgjI

In conclusion, how sweet are these?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gof-42uYq8&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onaabYqzD54&feature=related

...Okay so I'm not quite ready to let go yet. Humor me, okay?

I think it's so funny that ex-wife Victoria Williams is along for the ride on this tour. Playing bongo! Like the tambourine, the bongo is an inately hilarious instrument. XD But man, her drumming really does add something:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93W3x1udfbw&feature=related

Oh and also I found this early video of the two of them with Williams, it's super cute (reminds me of the Harada/Shuji/Rika threesome in Honey and Clover):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMpggvv4Xk4&feature=related

This one's better now too (with the guitar solo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvfPdER7uo

In conclusion (this time I mean it), the sweet songs got sweeter, and the horribly depressing songs aren't as horribly depressing anymore. It's heartwarming, really. *g*


That's the last you guys'll hear from me on this front, I swear. (Until February anyway.)