Dawn's Digression.

Indigo Girls on Friday

Part One

This is part one because I don't know if I will type it all right now. It's 5:50 and I'm still at work. There's no point in leaving work anytime between 5:15 - 6:00. Rush hour on LBJ is horrid. Better just to stay put.

Okay. So.

I could not get out of the office on Friday. I left Irving at 5pm on the dot. It took me ONE hour to get to Gf's from there. And I hate traffic. I just don't have the patience for it. I put some Strange Fire in because it's mellow and I thought it would chill me out. It did. But I doubt anyone could tell. By the time I got to my little lady's house every muscle in my back hurt. It occured to me then that she had never dealt with me right after work. Anytime I deal with traffice I require a 'cooling down' period. She was in a good mood, which I recognized and in no way wanted to hamper. But I didn't talk much and did that smile where you turn up the corners of your mouth, but show no teeth. You know the one. Obligatory. But I took some deep breaths, and she brought me a bourbon and coke and I was good.
We took my car. Thank the gods. She would have had issues with the parking. But the Barneymobile was fine in the dark Deep Ellum parking lot. We got there right on time. 7pm. Rachel got there right on time, too, which is nothing short of a miracle.

The venue was a bar with an upstairs and downstairs. Pretty cool, I reckon. They left us all downstairs for awhile, but let us go up around, um 8ish, I would say. We all sat in the floor, but they made us stand up, which sucked. The stage was a tiny little thing in the corner. IG posters were all over. I wanted one SO bad. GF was going to steal me one, but the crazy IGheads stole them before she could. That's okay, though. It's really not my style to hang posters like that in my home.

I felt sorry for Rachel and GF, of course. Poor dears. I'm glad Gf's friend Allison was there, though. I think that helped her quite a bit. Gf & R actually spoke a couple of times, which made me really happy. I can be easy to please sometimes. I just want to see effort. And gf tries really hard. (See? I'm acknowledging something she does for me. Trying to be better about that).

I was surprised I knew as much of the CD as I did. Of course I had DL most of it, but I didn't realize I had listened as well as I had. I will maintain that my favorites as of now are Moment of Forgiveness and Hope Alone. Hope Alone makes me sad. Then again so does Moment of Forgiveness, but that's another thread for another moment.

Here is the setlist:

Least Complicated
Gone Again (broken mandolin string by Amy)
Collecting You
Become You
Power of Two
Yield
Hope Alone
Land of Canaan (Amy said: This used to be a slow song!)
Get Out the Map
Starkville
Galileo
Chickenman
Our Deliverance (Emily's intro: this is song for peace)
Moment of Forgiveness

The Girls didn't seem to hate being here so much this time. It seemed when I saw them last at the Bronco Bowl that they weren't all that excited about being here, so I was glad they seemed to be having a good time. I don't know how they play night after night after night. Being away from home has just got to wear you down.
GF ran around with my camera on her mission to get some really great pictures. Usually concert pictures don't turn out, so we'll have to see...but maybe I got one or two good ones. Amy and Emily were wearing hideous clothing, of course...which is something I love about them. I love how they have their own style and don't really give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks. Good for you.

No tears at this IG concert. But lots of big smiles. Rachel I think got a little veklempt during "Collecting You". I see a possible Rachel/Raevyn song there. I think gf laughed at me a couple of times cuz I was hopping. I couldn't see. There was this really big chick standing in front of me that had big hair. Really big hair. I think gf thought I was hopping because I was excited, but really I was hopping because I couldn't see.

Oh. Without giving away my friend's secrets... It looks like this whole Rachel/Raevyn thing is pretty much for keeps. I worry about it. I worry about Raevyn taking good care of Rachel. And I know there are different ways of taking care of people. I just think Rachel deserves everything. And then some. But Raevyn seems to truly love her...so this is good. I just really want to make sure I have a good conversation with Rachel about it before it gets TOOOOO complicated. It's my duty as a friend to make sure she has thought through all the implications.

Indigo Girls were good Friday night. They are coming again this summer, and of course, I'm stoked and ready for that. I wish I could do the road trip thing. I kinda miss the part of my life where I could hop in my car and take off. I can still do that, I suppose...but now everything takes planning. Sometimes I just want a little adventure. I want to 'feel so funny to be free'. I wanna stick my feet out the sunroof. Wear goofy sunglasses. Act like I'm 19 years old. I miss that sometimes. That's the problem with dating someone older than you are. You have to spend energy making sure you don't act younger than you actually are. Anyway, I want to go on a road trip this year. At least I get to go to Denver.