it's only been a couple days...

but so much has happened, so i'm back. :3

sea wolf
so i never actually got around to decorating, we just cleaned the house and then anna invited me out for a concert at the roxy, so i went, and it was ridiculously great. the opening band was called chasing kings, and they were fantastic! the second band was a little forgettable, but headlining was an LA based band called sea wolf, and they were just....mesmerizing live. surprise surprise, they have a song on the new moon soundtrack...but this fact should be largely disregarded. haha! well...all you need to know, is that the soundtrack is far better than the movie, and that the subsequent publicity for the band is probably very positive. they were a little arcade fire, a little moody and a little folksy, but they won me over pretty quickly... nothing like comfortable, idyllic melancholy when you're feeling a bit lost and despondent.

jazzzzzz
today, i put up the tree, and nothing else. and then went to brave the crowds at the mall. i got a little xmas shopping done, but there's just a week left and i still need to get a lot of presents. :( i dunno what it is, but this year...i'm pretty uninspired. and then...anna and i went to her friend alexis' jazz show at this little coffee shop in old town monrovia...and music brought me solace once again. for anyone a little sick of christmas music, or anything they've been listening to a bit too regularly, try some jazz. it's just so alive, a pattern arriving then playfully slipping away, only to come back again and again, each time different than the last. he sang sabor a mi at the very end, a song in spanish that was all velvet and so lush... i blushed terribly at the first verse. i am still so blown away by his talent and his passion for jazz...gah.

hokay...i'll stop pretending i know how to talk about music now. >__< just wanted to share!