"if i was a philosophy i'd be registentionalism, and if people spoke using quotes of me they'd say reginaisms. if i was a religion, then my church would surely have a schism"
some time ago now, i got an instant message from pat. "you have to go and see regina spektor when she plays in london," she said, "my friend messaged me and told me to go and see her and i did and it was great so now i'm telling you" [i'm paraphrasing a lot here]
so based pretty much solely on that recommendation and only having heard "baby jesus" before i duly went up to islington to see her. after enduring a competent but incredibly self-involved support band and an interminable wait a slightly ditsy-looking girl with just a hint of kooky-cuteness walks out onto the stage, sits at a piano and captures the full rapt attention of the entire crowd for her full set. she makes jokes, she plays requests (and has to give up on "baby jesus" quite early cos she hasn't played it all tour), she is genuinely concerned for all the young girls fainting in the sweltering heat of a poorly ventilated box, she is genuinely likable.
i was singing this song for days afterwards and it has regularly been an earworm since. it's so not her best song but it is sweet and funny and pretty in a throwaway kind of way
Sunday, March 04, 2007
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