death cab for cutie // lim's birthday

firstly, went to watch death cab at astoria last tues. as promised, here are some photos.

the pictures don't really tell much. pictures of concerts don't really convey anything. they can't carry the music, the smoke, the crowd, the passion. but anyway, as you can see, there are many people. haha. death cab turned out to be better than i expected. i guess having low expectations of things is a good thing. i had high expectations for one of my fav bands blink182 last year, and they turned out crap in their wembley gig. damn bad in fact.

so, death cab proved to be better live than on album. a real, good band plays better than its cd. after all, albums can be manufactured, fine-tuned. their album music seemed boring on their albums. you can't really get into it by listening once. they're one of those where you have to keep listening to. it's only after the gig that i started listening to them properly. love soul meets body, crooked teeth and i will follow you into the dark.

love of mine
someday you will die,
but I'll be close behind;
I'll follow you into the dark.
No blinding light or tunnels
to gates of white,
just our hands clasped so tight
waiting for the hint of a spark.

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied,
illuminate the noes on their vacancy signs.
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
then I'll follow you into the dark.

glad derrick jio-ed me for the gig. it's weird that only greg and derrick are the only people i know in london who are interested in gigs. anyway, we intend to go for the subways. hopefully, we can get more people to come along. the more the merrier, the funnier.

secondly, we celebrated lim's birthday last evening. happy birthday limo, my lab partner / winningeleven / watchsocceratapub pal! (he's looking like a pap member here)