Tegan and Sara Live - Hollywood - Jul 24 2007 - Amoeba Music 0:00 The Con 3:46 Back in Your Head 7:09 Living Room I dont claim any right of the songs/video
The Con is without a doubt my favorite era for Tegan and Sara. But I'm coming to terms with the realization that it's so very selfish of me to wish that they'd write/record/perform with this much passion again, because that means also wishing they'd inhabit a similarly intense emotional space. Compare this performance of The Con to the one at Amoeba 10 years later in 2017. The song is the same, and yet it is not the same song. But it is cruel of me to wish Tegan into some state in which she could sing it like she means it. She seems to be in a much better place now and I should be happy for her. This conflicted feeling reminded me of passage: "What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. It is with him as with the poor wretches in Phalaris's bronze bull, who were slowly tortured over a slow fire; their screams could not reach the tyrant's ears to terrify him; to him they sounded like sweet music. And people crowd around the poet and say to him, 'Sing again soon' - in other words, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before, because your screams would only alarm us, but the music is charming. And the reviewers step up and say, 'That is right; so it must be according to the rules of esthetics.' Now of course a reviewer resembles a poet to a hair, except that he does not have the anguish in his heart, or the music on his lips. Therefore, I would rather be a swineherd out on Amager and be understood by swine than be a poet and be misunderstood by people." - Kierkegaard [Either/Or 1843]
I was there for this one - got there way too early and spent a good amount of time watching traffic on Sunset Boulevard while waiting for them to let people in the store. The only bad part was that I ended up having to watch the show from way in the back by the stairs.
The Con is without a doubt my favorite era for Tegan and Sara. But I'm coming to terms with the realization that it's so very selfish of me to wish that they'd write/record/perform with this much passion again, because that means also wishing they'd inhabit a similarly intense emotional space. Compare this performance of The Con to the one at Amoeba 10 years later in 2017. The song is the same, and yet it is not the same song. But it is cruel of me to wish Tegan into some state in which she could sing it like she means it. She seems to be in a much better place now and I should be happy for her. This conflicted feeling reminded me of passage:
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. It is with him as with the poor wretches in Phalaris's bronze bull, who were slowly tortured over a slow fire; their screams could not reach the tyrant's ears to terrify him; to him they sounded like sweet music. And people crowd around the poet and say to him, 'Sing again soon' - in other words, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before, because your screams would only alarm us, but the music is charming. And the reviewers step up and say, 'That is right; so it must be according to the rules of esthetics.' Now of course a reviewer resembles a poet to a hair, except that he does not have the anguish in his heart, or the music on his lips. Therefore, I would rather be a swineherd out on Amager and be understood by swine than be a poet and be misunderstood by people." - Kierkegaard [Either/Or 1843]
this really goes for all of us. Are you even the same person you were in 2007 compared to now? i'd also agree this is prime tands.
tegan just looked so in love
I was there for this one - got there way too early and spent a good amount of time watching traffic on Sunset Boulevard while waiting for them to let people in the store. The only bad part was that I ended up having to watch the show from way in the back by the stairs.
Omg!!! I was there but didnt have the chance to make it but I got to take a photo of them
beatiful, fantastic my lady.
Go girls
tegan's eyes look like blue or some
Shout out Andy samberg on the drums
disappointed the people didnt turn red, grey and black during back in your head