Last night, Urmila and I went to the Ben Gibbard show in the music capital of the world that is Washington DC. It was a good show even though people talked through Johnathan Rice AND Ben Gibbard and there was bad fashion to be seen left, right, up and down. However, those things matter not, for two reasons:
1) Ben Gibbard sounded really good live. I love Postal Service and I do like some Death Cab stuff (I love "The New Year") but overall I wouldn't describe myself as that big of a fan. He can sometimes be really vag-y and too "whiny, tortured emo boy." That said, his voice sounded excellent; even better than recorded. Not whiny, a little more intense and bass-y. "Soulful" was the word Urmila used to describe it. And I totally agree.
2) John Krasinski CAME OUT ON STAGE. He looked hot in his green tee and backwards hat. He had a guitar slung around his shoulder and while he probably doesn't know how to play anything but "Stairway to Heaven," that's okay because he looked the part and he joked back and forth with Gibbard and it was really cute. This was eerily coincidental and just plain bizarre, because an hour earlier when we were listening to the music on the pre-show mix, Urmila noticed that the music was almost identical (order and song-wise) to the mix she just made for Sunday morning brunch at her soon-to-be-established restaurant. I responded by saying something about vag-y music and then she said, "I bet John Krasinski would like my brunch mix." In fairness, she said this because she is random, and because John Krasinski is her celebrity crush. And then he came on stage. Weird, non? Also, no one cool comes along with any of the bands that play DC. Why would you?? New York's right there and the crowds in DC suck (Gibbard even pointed this out. Aggressive, testosterone-y, talking over the music, etc. He actually had to ask the crowd to shut up at one point.) And yet, there was John Krasinski, happy to just to peek his head out on stage and do a quick little song and dance for Urmila. Coincidence? I think not. Indicator of things to come? Most definitely.
UPDATE: Anyone interested can listen to the show: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9935188
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A girl's got to dream.
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