We went to our first concert in a couple years. I'm scared that I just wrote that, but it's true. We are both former music business types who gravitated to that line of work because of our love of music. Tonight we got a sitter (not just any sitter, but the wonderful N) and trekked up to see Sigur Ros, the amazing post modern darlings of Iceland, at the United Palace on 177th Street, where I filed this report from my Blackberry:
"Sopooppoppoppo many white people, bobbing their heads, almost imperceptibly. At one puint, the music stopped and the whole theater all 3300 people just sayt there in complete silence for oh 15 seconds before a couple people finally yelled ow! And then it was silent again for a while till the music started. The woman next to Jason cried. People who had to get past us in the row on the way to their seats said excused me as they passed. People SAT in their seats! What happened to people barfing on your shoes? I mean, I,m wearing opened toed flats tonight."
This was originally posted on our family blog, on September 17, 2008.