I’ve got pictures to prove I was there

But you don’t care.

Happy Thanksgiving!

If we can call them friends…

Then we can call them on the telephone…

Ingrid

I went to a show tonight. I went somewhere without my baby tonight. This is very exciting, isn’t it? Tonight Ingrid Michaelson played at the Wonder Ballroom, and I decided that, while the odds may be against me, I am going to go. Ingrid Michaelson is one of my most favorite artists. I love, love, LOVE her songs and even went to see her last year when she was in town, when she was merely an opening act for some dude at the Aladdin on Halloween. Tonight she was headlining at the Wonder Ballroom. The other big difference between these nights? Her show last year was my last before getting pregnant a few weeks later. Tonight’s show: my first since having a baby. This didn’t hit me until she came out and started to sing her first song, and continued to hit me throughout the night with every song she sang.  Going to see her tonight was a really powerful reminder of how much my life has changed in the past year, and of the fact that I never got to say goodbye to my old life before it so abruptly changed. I wasn’t expecting to feel so emotional about it, but I guess that goes hand in hand with the whole “having a baby” thing. Regardless, I am glad I went, because I had forgotten how energizing it is to see an artist you love live, and that is definitely exactly what I needed right now.

The classic Ingrid song…major flashback to Fall 2007:

And my personal favorite…this one is fun because you can hear Emily and Keely getting excited about it, and then we all sing along:

Finally

The new Death Cab for Cutie album, Narrow Stairs, came out today. I really like it! It reminds me of their older stuff a little, and it doesn’t make me want to slit my wrists like Plans did/does (Hey, thanks favorite band for releasing a really depressing album the same summer I go through a difficult breakup. Thanks for that). I still need to listen to it more to form a solid opinion, but so far so good. Transatlanticism is still my favorite of course, and I don’t think they will be able to ever top it…but it’s still nice to get something new from them after three years of waiting.