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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Honestly no, I’ve never been to anything close to this size. Usually my wife and I go to smaller shows in ~1000-2000 person venues.

    It is for sure a different energy though. Small venues are nice because even from the back you are pretty close to the stage but the feeling of >15,000 people singing along with somebody live is sort of indescribable, you know?

    Do you like to go to a lot of big shows like that?





  • I was with my wife and some friends, so 7 of us total. Truth be told it was mostly my wife and I by ourselves though and then we just met with everybody at the AirBnB at the end of the night and talked with the other people. My wife is pretty hardcore so we were leaving before everybody else every day and getting back last every night haha.

    And it was in Ocean City, so literally right on the coast. We were coming out of VA so we drove up the peninsula. It was a pretty fantastic location honestly. The little amusement park in the center was free for anybody attending the concert, except for a select few rides (giant slingshot most notably) so we were able to ride the Ferris Wheel and stuff if there was a gap in the shows we wanted to see.


  • It was a 3 day music festival in Maryland! It was right on the beach, two of the three stages you were standing in the sand. Artists there people are most likely to recognize are Jack Johnson, Alanis Morissette, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer and The Lumineers. Lots of other stuff too though. My favorite was Fitz and the Tantrums, though Jack Johnson’s set was crazy good. Man puts on a really good live show.








  • Visiting from !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz !

    I’m not a huge Alt/Indie music listener, but I do like folk music so when I saw her with Folk Rock as one of her labels on Wikipedia I was excited to check this out. I also really liked the track she co-wrote for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

    This whole album is so sad for me. I love music that makes me really feel something, but it is rare that the emotion I get out of my music is a deep and genuine sadness. I won’t pretend I’m not a pretty emotional guy, but I was surprised when started to tear up during Heaven. I’m a happily married man and the combination of

    as I sip on the rest of the coffee you left
    a kiss left of you

    and

    and the dark awaits us all around the corner
    but here, in our place we have for the day
    can we stay a while and listen for heaven

    made me NEED to walk over and hug my wife. Her ex-husband passed away a couple years ago and watching my step-kids deal with that grief made me very aware that seemingly healthy people our age can vanish suddenly.

    I also want to mention Star. As far as I can tell it was released as a single the same time as Heaven, so maybe it is appropriate that it is my second favorite song on the album. When it starts to build at ~1:45 and then peaks at ~2:35, I got goosebumps.

    I also really liked the hard piano on “When Memories Snow”, leading in to the orchestral build. Maybe I’m just a sucker for a good build.

    The only take I wasn’t super feeling is I Don’t Like My Mind, but I think that is just because it is following Heaven which hit me so hard. I was emotionally recovering or something, idk. I will be giving this album another listen in the near future and my opinion may change once I’m no longer gut punched by Heaven.

    Last thing to mention is that the dog barking sounds on the back part of I’m Your Man made me genuinely uncomfortable. I don’t know why exactly but I disliked it on a very guttural level.

    Overall I really liked this album. Not as folky as I had hoped when I Wikipedia’s her, but I think that was me setting false expectations for myself. Their was a bit of country going on though which is folk adjacent! Overall the the choral and orchestral pieces on several of the tracks sounded amazing and her lyrics combined with the general vibe of many of the songs had me all in my feelings. I’ll have to check out some of her older albums after this if they are anything like this. I need to give it a few days though probably. Partly so I can re-listen to this, but also because I think I can only handle so much sad music in a short period of time.