Gray Days in New York
October 7, 2005 
Another gray NYC morning - the third? fourth? in a row. This one doesn't seem to want to burn off with a follow-up 80 degree day. Kind of how I felt about the David Gray show at Radio City last night. I get the catchy catchy catchy of the top three or four hits from White Ladder but aside from that the rest just doesn't make an impression. At certain points I was roused from my monotonic-serenade induced sleepiness by Gray's cryptic catcalls to the crowd, such as "You sound like a great big bunch of Americans!" Is that good? Is that bad? Are we supposed to think Mr Gray is just being a cheeky Englishman? If you are a fan and have the decoder ring I suppose all of this makes sense - Lisa was very happy to see Gray's show for the fourth time and thought it very much a good time. I was happy to check out the show and when the cheeky Englishman sang about lightning running through his veins I was happy to feel Lisa squeeze my hand. A little lightning of my own to brighten the gray.
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i think that i love david so much was b/c he came to me at a critical time in my life. a relationship had ended, and i had the excitement of seeing someone new, i felt good...that was the "high" point.
the low point was when my grandma died, and the only cd i brought back to michigan with me was white ladder. i listened to that over and over in the car, wherever i went. (well, that, and the cat stevens cd i bought).
i think people in general have "affiliations" --for lack of a better word with artists b/c they fill a need in that individual's life at a certain time. you know?
if you sit and listen--i mean, really listen to david's music on his albums like sell, sell, sell, lost songs-singles, flesh, a century ends...or even white ladder and a new day at midnight (which he wrote after the death of his father), it'll speak to you, perhaps in the ways those albums spoke to me. He makes me cry, he makes me dance and sing, he's just awesome.
i'm glad you came with me to see dg last night.