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An unexpected benefit...

...of living in the great Pacific Northwest: we got to see Dan Bejar actually perform with New Pornographers. I've been happy to watch Kurt Dahle sing the Dan songs while he wails away on his drum set, in fact, he's pretty amazing. But I always wanted to hear Bejar sing his own songs, and he's never toured with the group (or at least he never played at the Austin shows, and we saw all of them, because I am a dork devoted fan). So. They did old and new songs of his, maybe five or six? He kind of flitted onto the stage every so often, sang, and then disappeared backstage to have another drink or something. Very divalike. And so now I feel inspired to pursue my dream of driving up to Vancouver to see a Destroyer show. Who wants to come along?

The show was fun, they're good live, and it was better than when we saw them last summer. But once again, the Seattle show crowd is simply foreign to me. They're so restrained! Even when people were really excited about a song (like, you know, something great off the very first album played as an encore), the most frenetic it got was a little hopping in place. Still it was a nice time, and the company couldn't have been better.