Adam Duritz Was at Passing Strange Tonight

He was just being a normal guy, enjoying his favorite songwriter's show.

We dug it too.

The theme of the week is ART=LIFE.
Tonight's incantation is ART>LIFE.

If it were any more real, it'd be fictional.

NYTimes Review of Passing Strange

Charles Isherwood really liked it! Yeah! Adam Duritz gushes about Stew, had him open for him a handful of years back (on the tour the Counting Crows did in '03? w/ JM?), and anyway I heard 30 seconds of some of the melodies (see below) in this show & was on my way to buy tickets. RMW and I are going on March 15. Can't wait.

Thank You For Blogging, Adam Duritz

I sometimes feel like I "get" Adam Duritz more deeply than I get a lot of people I actually talk to regularly. His blog is so bravely human and real and ridiculously well-written. And I find myself relating on a philosophical level over and over - just like I do with his lyrics. I recommend his latest entry highly.

I think I've determined my answer to the age-old question about what celebrity I'd most want to go to dinner with. Conveniently we both live in NYC. Ha.

When Kindness Falls Like Rain, It Washes Me Away

I think I have listened to this Counting Crows song, "Anna Begins", fifteen times this afternoon. I've been in love with it since it was first released in 1993, and the bridge still "washes me away" just about every time I hear it. Adam Duritz is a brilliant songwriter. Even with all his fame, he has managed to maintain the ability to write honestly. He's not afraid of making himself vulnerable. I so admire that.

Listen to the song here -- but at least the first time, try to ignore the photo montage... while creative, I find it a little distracting...