Next morning he bought a ticket and at the concert "just found myself sobbing, absolutely hysterical .The young man was about to launch a publishing business and, with it, to define an occupation.
I got cozy in my Splendid sweats and a Black Keys concert tee, wrapped myself in one of my cherished embroidered Indian shawls and ordered in some of my favorite British comfort foods: shepherd's pie, rhubarb crumble and custard from Tea & Sympathy.
At that Lyceum concert I found myself thinking of Dylan several times, first when he stabbed a pointing finger at the audience during No Woman No Cry, remembering Dylan's reported dislike of "finger-pointing" songs, and I wished he could be here crammed into this neck of humanity to feel how effective they can be in the right hands.
"I do this because I enjoy the concerts so much myself".
"When we first started making music, if you would have told me that we would have had a record that sold as many as that did, I would have been, 'Absolutely, that's what we're here making music for.' Now, when we're playing concerts, I enjoy myself.
Whatever creative differences Black Francis and Kim Deal may have had offstage in the 80s and 90s, Pixies concerts remained for myself cathartic vortexes.
"I found myself inside the concert hall when several armed individuals burst in, in the middle of the concert," he reported.
It's a daily update and I'm so homesick on the road that I'm literally looking at who's playing where each night and imaging myself at the concert.
You try wearing high heels to a concert, you tool, I thought to myself.
I played the piece for friends (timidly), then in concert (pretending to be absolutely sure of myself).
