12:05 p.m. - 11.15.2004
69 love songs
Had free tickets so went to see the Magnetic Fields friday night.
I fell asleep. But it was really enjoyable. I mean the show and the sleep.
The times I nodded off were enjoyable because I felt like a kid again. The music was lulling me to slumber but I could still hear it even in the back of my mind. It was like long ago when my parents would have dinner parties - and when it became incomprehensibly late, like 9:30ish, I would be lulled to sleep by that sound of adult conversation in the other room while I stretched out peacefully on the carpet, the smell of it acting as chloroform.
And never achieving full blown sleep, but being woken up every so often by a burst of cackling from the adult conversation - that's how I felt friday whenever a song would end and the audience would erupt in applause. Then as a new song began, I promised myself, "this is the one I'll give my full blown attention to" and I'd strain to comprehend the lyrics, despite the best efforts of my heavy eyelids.
Yup, a pretty good show, those Magnetic Fields. And a pretty good sleep.