Dangerous unapproved videographer! Beware!
So I was surfing the youtube and came across this video. I have never seen a youtube video of a live concert of this quality. The sound is utterly amazing you can hear every single note played off that piano!
This was Kate's astounding encore of Merry Happy on 5/14/2008...
Destroying any trepidation I had over seeing what I considered a "mellow" artists, Kate Nash absolutely rocked the Music Box last night. She also destroy and pre-conceived notions I had of her actually being a "mellow" artist. From the moment the first notes of 'Pumpkin Soup' till the very last note of 'Merry Happy' (incidentally also the last note of the tour) the energy never ceased.
Some of Kate's song were spend up just to maintain the energy. She sang every song of the "Made of Bricks" album (with the exception of the intro 'Play' and the bonus track 'Little Red'), as well as a hanful of others songs. A song I really hope she releases would be 'I hate seagulls'. I thought it was really nice.
Kate's personality comes out on stage allowing for a unique show experiance.
"This song is a quite one so... Shut up...please."
"I think its nice that you have at least one song with a moral" (after singing 'You don't have to suck dick to succeed')
Ok now that I've gotten all my boring thoughts out of the way-
This show was a fucking blast!! Kate Nash is one of the most talent people I have ever seen, all the while seeming completely normal.
At I sit upon the shores of Venice Beach I can help but hum "West Coast" by Coconut Records.
The trip is winding down. One more stop before we hit the road. It has been great.
Right now I'm about halfway between Phoenix and Los Angeles. I love Los Angeles. Its the one of only places I've ever been to that I only have good memories of. When I visualize bits of Venice Beach it kind of tugs at my heart in that really cliche manner usually reserved for puppy love. I can see myself living on one of the canals and the smallest beat up shack because its all I could afford, but being blissfully happy.
Right now we are driving through one of the wind farms. I always stare at the windmills so long that I get car sick but I just love to watch them spin and its nice to see something that isn't driving this world even further into despair. When a cyclone kills hundreds of thousands of people and then an earthquake kills tens of thousands more less than a week later my mind instantly goes to global warming. I fear that human gluteny ( of which I am horribly guilty ) has driven us to the point of no return and the snowball is just going to get bigger. It scares me to think that this is all going to end sooner than anyone realized.
Enough of that, my intention wasn't to grand stand about living green cause I'm only learning it myself, all I'd intended to say was that the wind farms are beautiful and they make me happy.
This is just a very short trip to LA. Tonight we are going to see Kate Nash perform at Henry Fonda Theater. I am excited but unsure what to expect since I am used to seeing shows where you are supposed to jump around and this should be considerably more mellow than I'm used to. Tomorrow we will hit up the city for a few hours before heading home. Though I wish we were going longer, it seems empowering to take a short road trip. Vacations have the tendency to control you where you control a road trip. The quick hop in a car and go is exciting. Living in New York the most exciting thing you can get to in six hours is the city and that's only an hour and 15 away. A six hour radius gets you nothing else. Here a six hour radius brings a choice of destinations, with LA being the most enticing for me.
Today I'm colorful. I have the most comfortable recycled (short) pants on and knee high white socks with pink and blue stripes at the top. My new sneakers are white with a different neon color on each of the 4 side panels. Its way braver a wardrobe than I normally wear but its not a normal day.
Last week I decided I wanted to try and write a romance novel so far I haven't done much more than pick character names. I hope laziness doesn't get me! But this is the first week of not having school and now I'm away from home. Maybe when things are normal next week. I just really don't want to write on a Mac and I can't afford the Asus I wanted yet.
I think that's all the rambling I'm up for right now.
