In Amsterdam

I went to see St. Vincent last night on a whim with Steph. St. Vincent is Annie Clark who's previously played with Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens, and she's seriously a gem. She's so sweet and cute in person, but makes music that's much more awesome and layered than simply sweet. She played in a small room in Paradiso, and intimate shows like that are always fun. Steph and I just kept looking at each other saying, "this is so great"...

Since I still don't know how to add music to a post, here's some videos. The first one's from a take away show with la blogotheque and the second is her new video from her upcoming album.

We ran into some friends at the show and ended up going out to a bar nearby afterwards. Somehow it happened to be music pub trivia night and it was absolutely hilarious. I don't think I've heard so many awful songs in one night. I hardly knew any of them, and I think that makes me the true winner. Our team had a lot of fun attempting to guess though, and relied on our only Dutch teammate for all the Dutch songs. Sadly he moved to the States before he was two and wasn't much help. We walked away in last place, but felt we made a valiant effort!