35mm

"The real mystery in life is not a problem to be solved. It is a reality to be experienced." - JJ Van der Leeuw

I was near ecstatic when I heard that the lead singer of the Doves had a sore throat and had to cancel a string of dates. Why so ecstatic, you ask. First off, I don't care much for the Doves. Secondly, and most importantly, it allowed their tour opener, Mercury Rev, to headline on their own, which they really should have been doing anyway.

Cut to me & nathan at the Fox last night - the Rev oozed class, drinking wine from stemware, wearing dinner jackets, and pretty much putting on a phenominal show. They had a screen as big as you could make it behind the stage which hosted constant projected images throughout the show. Whether it was old black & white movie clips, or deep quotes, or the solar system, it definitely added to the grandiosity of the tunealage, which was pulled from their last 3 discs. Thumbs up.

set:
secret for a song
black forest (lorelei)
tonite it shows
tides of the moon
my love
the funny bird
vermillion
opus 40
there you are
holes
in the wilderness
spiders and flies
diamonds
E:
little rhymes
first-time mother's joy (flying)
the dark is rising

"At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don’t understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time." - Jane Wagner

-chasing a bee, neph-