We went to the Iron & Wine and Calexico concert last night. Sam Beam was great, Calexico was great, the Mexican man they brought with them, Salvidor Duran, was very enthusiastic in his singing about "love," "crazy," and "always" (the only Spanish words I recognized in his songs). And Calexico's steel guitarist, I tell you. I never thought that I would get into steel guitar. It's not really my thing. But this was amazing.
We actually passed Sam Beam on our way to the concert. We were wandering around Fenway Park trying to find Landsdowne St and he was heading the opposite way we were on Van Ness. I kind of thought it looked like him, but I didn't realize it was until he got up to sing. I try not to jump to conclusions about these kind of things. He looked miserably cold, poor Florida boy. He played a lot of songs from Woman King. The version of "Jezebel" was faster and beautiful, "can you hear the dogs come running" almost made me cry. I love that song so much. And he played "Woman King," my SIP theme song (everyone needs a SIP theme song) and "Evening on the Ground" which I love because it's about Lilith, and because it's a great song. I listened to Woman King over and over and over again last spring while I was writing my SIP (on Britomart, the lady-hero of The Faerie Queene for those who are a bit behind). It was such a fulfilling event to listen to Sam Beam play those songs last night.
I got my new computer on Tuesday. I decided to go for the 12-inch iBook that I've wanted for years and years. I think the main reason I wanted an iBook is because it reminds me of that really cool electronic book that Penny had in Inspector Gadget. I always wanted that book, and now I feel like I have it.
Posted by linnea at December 8, 2005 11:13 AM