nate

ten years of letting the world come at you, love

ten years of your veins being empty of dust

ten years of knowing you bought your shoes from Oxfam

ten years of your hair looking better black

ten years of crying to that painted sky

ten years of a broken pot can still hold water

ten years of staring at the moon

ten years of it starting off like a pinprick, a trick of the light oil slick

ten years of showing the world we exist

Sorry for the delay, I know I promised I’d post more of the videos I got soon… I’ve just been so jet-lagged I’ve been focused on settling back into work and acting like I’m normal and didn’t experience a genuinely life changing event.

Here’s a snippet from the first song of the night, A Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious. They really know their audience ☺️

My favorite memories of the performance are moments like these, that were so uniquely TAD, so intrinsically tied to THIS audience, THIS time and THIS place, that they are truly irreplicable. The way we were all right there with Joey and Madeleine, were feeling their lyrics so deeply and with such love we couldn’t help but spontaneously start to sing along? Magic.

I’ll be making an effort to post more of my favorite clips of the performance in the coming days. The videos I got aren’t the best (I was fighting tooth and nail with my phone’s focus the entire time, ugh), especially when compared to some of the really awesome videos other fans have shared, but I’d still love to offer what I’ve got!

I do have audio recording of the book interview at the start, as well as longer videos (and these shorter ones not absolutely fucking mangled by Tumblr’s compression, if anyone has tips on how to deal with this I’d love to know). If people are interested I’d be happy to put together a Google Drive to share. Just let me know!!

I keep trying to write out exactly how it felt, what it meant for me to be there, but nothing seems to be enough. I’ll keeping working on it, and I’ll post more of the photos and videos I got soon (most likely when I’m back in the states and can take a breath lol).

I will say though, that the connection I felt to every person in that room was near spiritual. To anyone who was not able to make it, if it’s any comfort know that we were carrying all of you with us 💕