Finally: Jens

I stumbled upon Jens' "When I said that I want to be your dog" at Easy Street records in 2004, I felt compelled to buy it. It was from a Swedish guy who called to me in a simple black and white photo with his guitar. When I finally gave it a listen, I became a fan.
Who is like Jens Lekman? Jonathan Richmond...kind of. Imagine a beautiful crooning baritone voice with incredibly clever bittersweet lyrics. Or, don't imagine. Here is a clip from his show last November in Fremont (a Seattle district):
Last night, I got four hours of sleep. My joy propelled me into an amazing energy at work today, though. I saw Jens at Neumo's on Capitol Hill!
What kind of power does this man possess? He got a huge crowd of Seattle indie fans, well known for their minimal expressions and morose emotion, whistling, clapping, dancing, singing along, and full of such happiness.
Thanks to my friends who joined me: Chase and his sweet ride, Brett, Tomika, and Brandon (who I think yelled "nice shoes" to Jens). Good times and a wonderful memory.

A break from the deep stuff and illuminating the mundane

The street in the Market was shut down for making a movie today. Jennifer Aniston is in town. Whup-de-doo! If I saw her, I wanted to be a dork and say: "Ross is too good for you! You were a jerk to him." At first I heard that she isn't shooting today. Then I heard that she is but not until 5 (I got off work at 2:30). Then I heard the location of her dressing room was on Stewart. Weird. Hollywood people in my town.
I did see Aaron Eckhart though! He was the guy in "Thank you for smoking". Cars stopped for him, and then he signaled for them to keep going. Professional acting at its finest. I was tired so I went home. I opened my cafe, after all.
Yesterday I had fun with my M.Div classmates. We did these book reports for Badley's Reading Practices class. We were all so into it. I did mine on the Wesley Quadrilateral. Good times. Girl Shannon was impressed that I used the word "cusp" conversationally. In our following class during break, Dr. Brown had some hymnage going down on her laptop. This resulted in breaking out into song by several of us. Good times! I'm impressed that people knew those songs since we all have come out recently of the "Praise and Worship" thing.
Well, I'm saving my usual deep mystic existential musings for another day. Peace out, yo.