decemberists
December 4th, 2006 by Lawrence David
my favorite part of keeping a blog is scrolling through the archives and seeing the photos i’ve posted. it’s like watching a digital zoetrope. [took a lot of googling to find the name of those things!]
therefore, i’ve been very conscious of the dearth of recent photo postings. i’ve been snapping plenty of pictures – i just can’t seem to find the time to post them properly.
i’ve got some time now though to begin clearing my desk.
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we caught the decemberists here in boston about 2 or 3 weekends ago at the orpheum. i’m in love with their “hyperliterate prog-rock” and their new single. it was the first time i’d heard them live – thankfully, they play and sing as well as they do on their cds.
luckily, i bought our tickets back in the days when i used to have good karma: we had amazing seats in the 8th row or so. i was able to take some wonderful pictures (especially considering how dark the place was!)
colin meloy’s indeed is a dreamboat. it’s hard to sail your eyes away from him singing in his rich, nasal (and yet somehow still mellifluous) voice.
although, given the opportunity to run off with one of the decemberists, it’d have to be jenny conlee. i’ve got this real soft spot in my heart for band members who passionately play their instruments out of the spotlight. and boy, did she play the piano, organ, and accordian with aplomb – from virtually behind one of the side curtains. sadly, those regions of the stage are rarely well lit.
