"And She Was" by Talking Heads, performed by David Byrne & his huge band @ Radio City Hall 10/01/2025.
Because FIRST of all HOW lucky am I to be alive to see David Byrne performing on a stage with my own two eyes and my own breathing lungs?
And what could be more wonderful than music—the most infectious type of music, at that—filling a gigantic room after a conversational talking interlude? Your breath still catches even after that interlude gave away what song was coming next. And she was lying in the grass...
And what makes the music so infectious and ALIVE if not what we each bring to it? The face of someone you loved, the memory of what someone told you once, the way they all felt when they were 24 and the way I feel right now.
How could I possibly keep myself from tears when the guy (probably somewhere in his 60s) next to me could not barely contain himself in his seat (it wasn't time for standing and dancing quite yet—we were in the second mezzanine)?
So many people in a room so happy to be there. So happy for one person to have existed and so happy for the art having been made. Music is magic. It's alive