old and new tunes for you spotify kids.

http://open.spotify.com/user/queenofthenight/playlist/3L1q4K3sdFbX9Kd4iW7eKR

featuring music that was new in the month the mixes were made (mostly).

for those who are into that sort of thing. you know, music & stuff.

august: http://open.spotify.com/user/queenofthenight/playlist/653AOKuPa8sK6HSKI5hp0d

september: http://open.spotify.com/user/queenofthenight/playlist/6ChpJiwWm6ui9B2gjOPtHL

october: http://open.spotify.com/user/queenofthenight/playlist/4lb02vcNO7iFuQjFe1Rh6o

november: http://open.spotify.com/user/queenofthenight/playlist/3HwFwGaeu7EhDNAZ7LeFHd

it was a tiny bit strange to hear music so intimate with quite so many people. which i guess is why, for most of the show, the audience was so quiet. silent, in fact.

i spent a lot of time watching people around me, and how they were reacting to the show. all seemed lost in thought. in their own worlds, thinking private thoughts. makes sense, given the music.

by the time skinny love came round, though, i think it’s fair to say that all of us had private moments with his music, together. which…was sort of spectacularly amazing. blindingly perfect, actually.

also, justin’s voice - it’s incredible. so many of his recorded songs have vocal distortion applied, so much so that i often lose sight of the powerful voice he does in fact have. so let it be here said that he has a voice of beauty, even if it often hides behind autotuned vocals. which is not something everyone in music these days can say, right?

the big art group’s project ‘the people: san francisco’ - a live performance that loosely riffed on euripedes’ orestes, interwoven with recorded interviews with san franciscans about themes on which the play touched: one of the more interesting theatrical performances i’ve seen in sf, yet.

in general, the recorded interviews were more successful than the live performance bits. touching on topics like war and veterans of conflict, these segments not only brought the themes of the play to life, they were an unexpected source of insight and truth. pretty great stuff.

sitting on the street, watching a projection of a show on an old brick building. not a bad way to spend a friday night, right?