i just saw sleater-kinney live and if i'd managed to see them twenty(!!) years ago it would have completely blown my mind, because even now, it was still one of the best shows I've seen in years.. I mean, there's no way I could have managed to get into an s-k show at 15, but I wish I'd known back then that girls could make music like that. Took me a few more years to figure it out. There was a kind of awkward part at the end when I felt like they were trying to really get a more activist energy from the crowd, but it just wasn't connecting. It was cringey and I wanted to cover my face with my hands. I could feel them pouring their energy out there in a kind of anthemic fuck-the-power-let's-rise-up way, but I don't know, it just echoed into the empty space. Maybe it was the 30$ tickets...wrong crowd.

Also fun: i went by myself, which i hardly ever do, I got to stand exactly where I wanted and steadily inch my way forward every time there was a space, since i was sans entourage. And THEN i ran into friends at the end so i still had people to walk out with and complain about the opening act, etc. All in all, successful evening.

11:23 p.m. - 2015-04-19