Rough Draft

Sing Like You Think No One's Listening

A few friends and I went to see Straylight Run and Jamison Parker at the Grog Shop last Saturday. This was about the 5th show for both bands and there were only about 50 people there. Jamison Parker played first and played all the songs off their EP Notes and Photographs as well as the song Paper, Rock, Scissors. There was a really cute girl standing next to me during their set (more on her later). After their set, I went over to buy their EP and a T-shirt. They're doing this really cool thing with the EP. They have 2000 copies to sell on the tour and each is individually numbered and each has a different Polaroid attached to it. When the EP hits stores in October, the cover (or possibly a fold out poster type of thing) will be a collage of those 2000 images. Very cool idea. I also got a chance to talk with Parker a little bit. He had a 15" Titanium Powerbook with a scanner connected to it at the show.

Straylight Run played the 6 songs they have made available for download as well as several new ones. A lot of people sang along with Mistakes We Knew We Were Making, It's For The Best, and Existentialism on Prom Night. One of the new songs they sang was sung by Michelle, and I'd just like to say she has a very nice voice. She sang backup vocals on most of the other songs, but it was hard to hear her. Overall, Straylight had a much more raw sound live than their mp3s, but it still sounded good, just a little different.

And now back to the attractive girl standing next to me during JamisonParker. When she was standing next to me, I thought she looked like Michelle and it turns out, she was Michelle! Then after the show, as we were leaving, she was walking over to the bar by herself. This is the time when I should have gone over and bought her a drink (especially since it was her birthday). But no, I was stupid and wimpy and didn't. Bah. I'm still kicking myself for not doing it. I mean how cool would it have been to say I sat down and had a drink with Michelle on her birthday. Oh well, I just have to make sure not to pass up such opportunities in the future, assuming I'm lucky enough to have more opportunities like that.