Devin and I went to see Kimya Dawson yesterday afternoon at First Unitarian. It was really lovely, despite the fact that it started over an hour late and we therefore missed our dinner reservations with MCPC. Totally worth it. There was a little girl sitting next to us named Sequoia who sang along to almost every song. Kimya asked her to come on stage and sing Tire Swing with her. It was the cutest.
(My apologizes for the poor video quality.)
She sang my absolute favorite song by her- My Rollercoaster- as well as the one that usually gets me crying- My Mom. It starts off with the line “My mom’s sick she’s in a hospital bed” so I think you can imagine why.
My favorite part from My Rollercoaster is this:
My mom would say “I hope some day you get paid for being Kimya Dawson”
And now I do and it’s not much
but it’s enough.
I’ve got my Scrabble game, food on my plate, good friends and family
and now there’s you understanding why I do the things I do.
Knowing that you do them too makes me really happy.
From the concert we met up with other MCPC students and went to see The Odd Couple at the Walnut Street Theater. On Friday Nadia and I went down to First Friday and met up with Emily, Sarah Bowman, Jen Michener, Katie Vorbeck and Kristen Brindle. We ended up eating at Banana Leaf. It was so, so good. I really just don’t want this semester to end.
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Hey so I randomly was searching to see if anyone had posted video of Sequoia singing w/ Kimya and low and behold I found your blog. Thanks for posting it! It makes my heart flutter
Comment by mellie April 6, 2008 @ 11:20 pm