2000-02-25

lou! lou! lou!

lou barlow! lou barlow! the man i love! the one who perennially saves my soul saves me again!

saw lou with chris this evening, and it was stupendous beyond stupendous... it was wonderful beyond wonderful. lou is just my light. that's all there is to it.

with the absence of john davis he was somewhat nervous... understandably, i guess, if you are human, but inexcusable if you are lou! he was so awesome, played forever, so many songs, even some two of my absolute favorite sebadoh songs, and i could just sink forever in his voice, i am telling you.

he opened the show playing the voicemail message from john davis wishing him good luck on the tour... complete with cat whining in the background... lou proceeded to blow me away with his energy, voice and tenacity. played songs mainly from one part lullaby, along with some of the more famous ("famous") kids soundtrack songs, like spoiled children and natural one. his rendition of no need to worry practically made me cry. acoustically he was sound and beautiful.

super fan? perhaps. but he was funny and talented and awesome. totally inspiring. absolutely made my millenium up there all alone. i felt like san francisco had lou barlow all to themselves this evening, and that was better than everything in the whole world.

through all the songs, i felt, hmmm.... sad and happy. his music always does that to me. i wonder what it is like, if he considers that the stuff of his creation is soundtrack to some people's lives... as his is for me.

occurs to me, sometimes, that often our lives are just love letters to other people. i wonder who mine goes out to. or perhaps i know. or perhaps that was some lifetime ago. i dunno.

*sigh* lovely. happy. yay. yay for me. yay. happy me. happy me tonight. happy jenn.

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