ann and dabney leave their apartment

between getting mogo orders out, prepping for spring shows, and purging the house, we've been such homebodies. lately, our evenings have consisted mostly of doing work while watching the hbo mini-series, john adams. how's that for exciting?

you can imagine the anomaly of last night when dabney and i actually left our apartment, stepped onto the t, and crossed the river. the only thing that could have shaken us out of our domestic groove was the pleasure of catching mr. colin meloy, of decemberists fame, perform live.


i should add this isn't my picture, but instead that of some lucky attendee who happened to be 20 yards closer to the man himself.

accompanied with only his guitar, colin sounded amazing. his opening song, "wonder" - a tune he wrote about having a child - was so incredibly sweet. he also sang a lot of my favorite decemberist tunes including, "the sporting life" "shiny" and "apology song." that he forgot a few lyrics here and there only added to his charm. we'll give him a little credit here - decemberists' lyrics score high on the difficulty scale.


yeah, not my picture.

previous meloy EPs include him singing to the likes of morrissey and british folk singer shirley collins - so it was nice to hear that he has recently added sam cooke to the mix. for proof, he performed the cooke classic "cupid" with opening act and fellow portlander (portlandite?) laura gibson. it was such a highlight i was sad not to have picked up the sam cooke ep as i was leaving. i guess i'll be awaiting for its itunes appearance.