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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Summerteeth on January 25, 2007, 10:20:00 pm
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Washington Post recommends camping out. Line expected to start at 8 AM Friday. Accurate?
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thursday evening ... lol
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Damn, 8 AM on FRIDAY?! I was planning on getting there around 7 AM on Saturday. Maybe I need to rethink this.
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Call me what you will, but I'm pretty sure tickets for Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are handed out immediately after the Sufjan tickets, and I think that'll be the better performance.
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Okay, so I just found out that tickets are being distributed today. Anyone have any idea what the line is like? Is it worth it to trek down there? It's just after midnight right now, so I imagine either I'm already shit out of luck or I'd have to go down NOW and freeze my ass off for eight hours or so. Any information that could help me make a decision, anyone?
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There are over 2000 seats in the place. I highly doubt 1000 people are gonna be sitting out all night. Just get there early tomorrow morning.
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Jeez folks, it's Sufjan Stevens, not Jesus Christ.
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Apparently if my friends and I had gotten there at 5:30 like we were planning we would have been out of luck. Frankly, Sufjan Stevens is not worth a night in sub-freezing temperatures.
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We got there at 2:00AM and we were around #500 in line...I'm guessing they wee half way through the ticket allotment when we got ours. ncluding the morning arrivals, there must have been 1,500 to 2,000 people there trying to get tickets.
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The turnout was amazing. We got there an hour later than planned, but I'm still not sure if we would have had any luck.
So if anyone doesn't have anyone to give their second ticket to, I would gladly take it off their hands. For money even. ;)
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is he really worth all this fuss?
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no.
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I wonder if it has more to do with the "I stood in a line for X hours" story you can tell friends/family than the performer. Given how easy it is to purchase tickets online now, being in line for a night seems like a flashback to 1987.
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Random Citizen, when I was your age, we stood in line for three weeks to see Jimi Hendrix at the MCI Center!
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Jeez folks, it's Sufjan Stevens, not Jesus Christ.
True. This is ridiculous.
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Random Citizen, when I was your age, we stood in line for three weeks to see Jimi Hendrix at the MCI Center!
And you also walked uphill in the snow both ways and liked it, too, right? :p
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Thank goodness I decided not to drive down. Sounds like it would have been a huge waste of time (and gas).
And for crying out loud, people, we really don't give a shit whether you think seeing Sufjan is worth standing around in line for lord knows how long in the cold. Some of us really like him, and some of us (like myself) have never seen him. People have camped out for tickets to special events for decades. You're acting like this is the first time anything like this has happened, and people are crazy for even considering it.
I wonder how much the three pairs on eBay will end up going for...
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go in the emergency exit door in the main corrider and take the steps up the the theatre. this exits into a hallway on the side of the theatre. your on your own trying to find a seat. don't tell anyone.
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I would have rather not camped out...if it were a usual performance on sale I would have preferred to go online and pay for tix. But having enjoyed Sufjan's performance in Phili last year, I didn't want to miss out on him performing with folks from the Opera House Orchestra. I don't like messing around with eBay or Craigslist, so camping out was the only option for me.
As for it being worth it, I guess I won't know until the actual performance.
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I'll buy your extra ticket ;)
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Well, I would have camped out if i did not have agreed to a privious agreement. Oh well, I still got a ticket, and yes, he is that good.
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Comments (http://vinyljourney.blogspot.com/2007/01/sufjan-stevens-at-kennedy-center.html) from some who queued up.
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this event showed, if there was any doubt, that even hipsters follow a herd instinct...
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<img src="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/041503/hipster!!!.gif" alt=" - " />
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apparently, hipsters are racist (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/fashion/28Blipsters.html) too, or at least in new york they are. meanies.
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Whatever. I went because I like Sufjan.
There were definitely some card-carrying hipsters there, but they didn't make up the entire crowd.
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Is there no webcast for this show?
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i dont think there was. hopefully something will pop up on youtube. for those who went, how was the show?
post #100 wahooo!
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Why didn't they do a webcast?! I really hope it ends up on their archives :confused:
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The show was quite good...it was a great sounding performance being in the Opera House, the dynamics were heightened between the hushed portions of just Sufjan singing and playing piano vs. the onslaught of the full orchestra. The Opera House orchestra seemed to be having fun with the arrangements and letting loose at points. Highlights included "Casimir Pulaski Day", an interesting version of "Chicago" with a lot of flutes and strings, and "Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie" - which Sufjan said was the first time performing live. He ended with "Majesty, Snowbird"...unfortunately no encore.
I felt sorry for the older ushers in my section, who seemed intimidated by the young crowd. A lot of unheeded requests to get to your seats, stop leaning on the railing, stop taking pictures, etc.
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I forgot to add the setlist:
Concerning the UFO
Detroit
Casimir Pulaski Day
Supercomputer
Predatory Wasp
Seven Swans
Chicago
Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
Majesty Snowbird
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I got a ticket last minute yesterday, and while it was a great show, I'm glad I didn't wait in line for it overnight, he only played an hourish. Some of the arrangements were really great, I too loved the contrast between just Sufjan and then his playing with the orchestra. I was particularly looking forward to hearing Chicago with the orchestra, but was a little disappointed with the way that one sounded. There were times when you could hear a pin drop in the Opera House. At the end of many songs no one clapped until after we heard him breathe. You could hear the whole audience collectively exhale and then clap. It was a pretty cool experience.
Did anyone check out the "target lounge"?? White and milk chocolate fountains with cookies, fruit, cake, marshmallows, pretzels, etc to dip in them, a candy bar, free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, etc. Complete with flashing target signs and target couches everywhere. It was interesting.
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All that fuss for a few songs? I'll sit by the fire and listen to the cd.
Yes, I am old.
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I camp out at the Kennedy Center for the chocolate fountains at the Target lounge.
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wait, isn't your cousin the drummer in a popular rock band?!
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i can't believe he played such a short set. if i had camped out, i would be pissed.
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Yes, but I don't have to camp out in the cold overnight to hear them play live.
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The Kennedy Center made it clear on their website that Sufjan's performance would last from 9-10PM and no longer. From what I hear, he wanted to come out for an encore, but the KC is very rigid regarding performance times.
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I gotta say, of all the acts I figured people would line up overnight in the cold for, I'd never think it'd be Sufjan Stevens. So much passion for music that strikes me as so dispassionate.
Or maybe people would line up in the cold for lots of people if that was still the only way to get seats.
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I was lucky enough to get a last minute ticket too from a friend of mine. her uncle works at the Kennedy Center and was able to get us tickets
we were also lucky enough to get to watch the soundcheck which was very cool. He played Concerning the UFO... during soundcheck, and it was really something to hear just him and his band (orchestra wasn't there) playing a song in that big opera house with only maybe 10 or so other people in there.
I thought the show was very good. I wouldn't of camped out for it though, but still good.
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So much passion for music that strikes me as so dispassionate.
Dispassionate? Are you kidding me? I understand not being a fan of his, but dispassionate is not a word I would even think to associate with him.
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Yup. Rob Harvilla of the Voice may have put it better..."tea that isn't brewed too strong".
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0635,harvilla,74320,22.html (http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0635,harvilla,74320,22.html)
This tone works as literature and humor but can be toxic when it fuels already overly mannered and delicate and clever indie rock. Ask our first musical attraction, Long Winters frontman John Roderick. "Indie-rock culture is the real ghetto of people who have convinced themselves that they're too sensitive to be yelled at or to yell, and they cry real tears when they see a flower lose its petals," he told Eggers-offshoot literary mag The Believer last year. "Those people belong in institutions. They should be in a really soft antiallergenic bed, and have people bring them tea that isn't brewed too strong. Life is better with a little conflict."
So there's John onstage, playing to several more thousand people than he is perhaps accustomed, singing gorgeous grad-school folk ballads in a high, keening voice, but also looking a bit menacing at six-foot-plus, lumbering around like he'd wandered in between bar fights. He noted that he'd bumped into Sufjan and his crowd of prim and proper accompanists backstageā??"They seem happy and full of life, and their clothes fit so well." The crowd was clearly unnerved. Was this a compliment? Is this guy gonna beat someone up?
He played three songs. Should've played 30.
Sufjan and his daisy Mafia played five. Should've played . . . well, actually, five's about right. You gotta admire the intricacy and anthemic power of his best tunesā??"Chicago" especially. And he doesn't force his backing crew of horns and violins and tambourines to dress like cheerleaders anymore, thank God. But there's still no threat of his beating anyone up. Too bad. His tunes are little dollhouses of orchestral splendor, ingeniously complex but emotionally distant. Model railroad vistas with no actual locomotion. Tea that isn't brewed too strong. His last tune was entitled "That Dress Looks Nice on You." Right.