and I'm indifferent to the loss...

I am the happiest girl in the world! Wonderfully amazing show last night from Mr. Ben Folds at the Barbican. He is so amazing and will never stop being amazing. I was brought to tears over and over again… from laughing, of course…. (except for one time, even my cold, cold heart can’t escape the amazing-ness of ‘evaporated’… the words just hit too close to home… and I really wasn’t expecting to hear it.)

Went with my new friend mark from brian’s legendary BBQ… he is a true music lover and we had a fabulous time. He knows the barbican like the back of his hand and was happy to show me all around. I think I love the barbican… it’s very formal but at the same time really 80s-retro…. The grand hall is really formal… kind of like an indoor wolf trap…. ben created an impromptu song about the venue when ppl kept shouting at him to ‘rock this bitch’… the song was HILARIOUS!!!! All about how you can’t rock the barbican too hard because it’s nobody’s bitch. I *heart* ben. Seeing him is like a piece of home. I must say that the audiences in the UK are much more respectable than American audiences… and it still kinda weirds me out… especially at a show like ben folds where there’s so much audience participation required. But I’m also kind of afraid that I will get back to the states and be totally grossed out by how entirely obnoxious everyone is…. Oh well.

I really really really missed having my usual ben folds gang with me, ie micah, yusef, and sarah. I had to giggle to myself thinking about how different the show would be if the dream team was there to liven things up a bit. I really missed micah’s classic background peformance (“you were not the SAMEEEEE!!!”) hahaha.
Anyway, I’ve decided that since the UK is soooooooooo slack about people taking pictures at shows I’m just going to start stealing other people’s pictures from shows I attended. See the yahoo photo page (http://photos.yahoo.com/kourtanay) ....stole some london rufus, gavin and ben. Hopefully get some more before it’s over. Not to mention that I *still* haven’t gotten my pics from Dublin developed. Crikey!

Random outburst: you know, I came here with big dreams about meeting lots of hot men with hotter accents but it seems that the most interesting men I met here are Americans... Case in point, last night, met a hottie from LA waiting in line to get into ben… and he actually invited me to a show tonight… so weird. too bad i've already got a hot date with mr. wainwright on the BBC2... but, maybe American accents aren’t entirely horrible…. ;)

The set list was as follow:

In between days
Gone
Cooler Than You
Purple Haze (!!!!)
Jesusland
b*stard
Still Fighting It
Carrying Cathy
All U Can Eat
You to Thanks
Landed
Rock This (Barbican) Bitch ("The Barbican is NOT your bitch, it is a respectable place")
Zak and Sara
Bitches Aint Shit
Emaline (SOLO)
Evaporated (SOLO)
Army (SOLO)
Where's Summer B?
Rockin' the Suburbs
Annie Waits
Popcorn
LatePhilosophy
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Encore
Not The Same
One Angry Dwarf

big hairy work event tomorrow... at least i'll be out of the office!

~courtney

“here I stand,
sad and free
I can't cry -
and I can't see
what I’ve done
oh god, what have I done?
and I poured my heart out
and I poured my heart out
it evaporated...”
~b.folds