Seth Cohen was there in spirit

I love to see indie bands making it big but still maintaining the indie spirit. Death Cab for Cutie is one of those bands. You can tell they haven't gotten all caught up in their new found fame when you stand next to the bassist during the entire opening act and don't bug him because he obviously is hoping to blend right in -- which he did to everyone else. Our group was pretty observant. We didn't bug him too much but we did acknowledge that he rocks. As I reached across him to throw away my beer can I quietly said "hey, good luck tonight. I'm really looking forward it." He just smiled at me and said thanks. Then when the Stars were getting us pumped for Death Cab to come out next, we looked at him and joking said "too bad the bassist sucks!" He just laughed.

But I wasn't totally distracted by Nick Harmer's elbow bumping my arm -- I did pay attention to the Stars and really enjoyed their set. I'm gonna download some of their stuff after I finish this blog.

DC4C opened with "Marching Band in Manhattan" which is probably my favorite off the new album, Plans. They had a great mix of rocking tunes like "Soul Meets Body", "Title and Registration" and "New Year" with their more mellow ones like "I'll Follow You into the Dark". My favorite live song is "We Laugh Indoors" because everyone gets into the "I love you Guinivere" part.

Besides being a better performance than at ACL Fest, this night was a great way to extend my birthday festivities. Kway and I were champs keeping up with the boys beer runs. We love TECATE!!! Tecate is the Stubbs concert standard. Too bad the limes were so huge! It was a workout trying to jam them into the can. But keeping up with the boys on a very small dinner (I had easy mac whereas the boys had just had Hyde Park Grille) Kway and I were buzzing pretty early on. Made for an interesting time just between us. We got a little ridiculous and annoyed some girls in front of us. But the real annoyance that night was the gorilla guy. This white boy who was literally 7 feet tall felt it was ok to just stand right in front of us short girls. Luckily the crowd shifted enough that he didnt block the entire stage the whole night. But Kway and I kept gesturing that we were stabbing him in the back and calling him an ogre, as seen here. "Get your dagger out of my heart, ogre!!"


Overall a great night!! (Four years to the day of the U2 Elevation show in Austin!)