I am getting really excited about this baby. I couldn't help laughing and feeling happy when I saw the little shrimp waving its arms on the ultrasound monitor. I can't believe it. You're six months away from being born and we already love you...

Those who know me (including my husband, oh the poor soul :)) know that I am definitely not the happy type of a girl whose life's ambition has always been to get married and have children. Now that I am going to have a kid, though, I feel the transformation happening. It's strange, scary, and exciting at the same time. It was definitely a good idea to give women nine months to get ready for whatever is coming...

Значіт ета.. Master Swarm by Andrew Bird:
 




Хробак бай Скрябін:
 



Як на мене, то шото тут є in common. Андрій Bird, Andrew Кузьма...

So..through NPR All Songs Considered podcasts, I found Andrew Bird to be interesting and just in case checked if he was playing anywhere close to here anytime soon. So he was. i checked on Thursday or Friday and the concert happened to be scheduled for Sunday. How good is that? :)

The place (SoMa) was packed and my poor pregnant self got dizzy, nauseated and short on breath...So we moved away from the stage and just stood (or sat) through the whole thing on the stairs near the exit and in convenient proximity to the bathrooms.

There was a Swedish opening band (Loney Dear) which, ahem, in my humble opinion, was something around okay. Fat Swedish boys should not wear tight pants. Even if they can play guitar and kinda sing.

Andrew Bird though was quite amazing. Anything but live performance doesn't do him justice. Like photocopies can't stand for an original painting (as long as we're talking about good paintings I guess...) Oh and the violin...And ah...the voice, very clear and crisp, just like his violin. As for lyrics...smells like Kafka and applied entomology :)
Oh yea! The socks. Bright green this time.   

I haven't painted in a while...this one is from a month or two ago.



By thalweg at 2009-02-14

Also, we're going to an Andrew Bird concert tomorrow. Hope it'll be fun even though it looks like there will be a crowd .

...and then you stop saying "always" and "never" and start thinking in maybes and possiblies, and even most likelies. Everything is relative and there is no absolute. There are no "us" versus "them" anymore, no separate little bubble of a world impermeable to everything outside. "We" are just like everyone else, in fact, "we" is just an ordinary me and you.



in each other's shadows we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all 

By thalweg at 2009-02-10