beautiful sorta

i love you, you crazy...

messy haired
straight from the wine bottle chugging
harmonica playing(sigh)
la cienega singing
glasses wearing
country rocker


what a great night. ryan adams was amazing. so so good. i was worried that the build up in my mind over all these years would never live up to the reality, but i'm glad i was wrong. the country spin that he put on many of his upbeat songs, thanks to the cardinals, was interesting. when he announced that a song trains, from his new cd that will be out in august, as being a little bit kunnntry and he was okay with that, that made me laugh. and as i head the first few notes of la cienega just smiled kick in, i melted. i couldn't help but smile. i grabbed for the phone, too a crappy picture, and sent it along to jen. i needed to pay her back for all the matt nathanson goodness she sent my way a week earlier. and i knew that she digs ryan as much as i do. i couldn't help but think of her rendition of come pick me up as he used it to close his show. he sang almost every song you'd ever want to hear live. he played for about 90 minutes with the band. when they took a break did he another 30 minutes alone jumping from acoustic guitar to piano.

some of my favorite parts of the night were:

when a picture of ryan flashed on the screen as we were waiting for the opening act to come out. lisa sighed and said, "please don't tell me you like him because you think he's pretty." i laughed and told her to just wait, she'd see that i loved him for his songs.

some ass yelled out to rachael yamagata, the opener, that she looked like a baby michelle branch. she then yelled back that he looked like a dick she once dumped. i loved that. she was good too, but she sounds a little better on her cd.

as we parked lisa reached in the back seat for something and it appeared that her head lunged into my lap. i love the whiplash it gave to the guy who was passing by, talking on his cell. we laughed pretty hard when i told her about it.

and i loved it when ryan was doing his acoustic bit on stage. some ass near the front was talking, so ryan abruptly stopped and apologized to the guy for being so rude for interrupting his conversation with an annoying song. it was the best thing i think i've ever seen, on stage. everyone laughed and applauded him for it.

i came home still bouncing off the walls at 2am. we had so much fun.