the stranger

It looks like the Paradox, the highly influential all-ages concert venue in Seattle, is soon to be no more. Mars Hill Church, which has subsidized the venue’s operations from its start during the Teen Dance Ordinance years to today has decided to pull the plug on its operations for the near future.
The concerts that [...]

On Sunday Jessie and I had the pleasure of attending the Sufjan Stevens concert at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. The experience was breath-taking and probably the best concert I have seen.
The band/orchestra/choir came out wearing colourful masks, scout uniforms, and butterfly wings like adults who rediscovered their childhood, but Sufjan was wearing a [...]

Get up get out get away from these liars
’cause they don’t get your soul or your fire.

Take my hand knot your fingers through mine
And we’ll walk through this dark room for the last time.

Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like anywhere.

I want so much to open your eyes
’cause I need you [...]