::pick of the week::

tonight's post is brought to you by a bowl of oatmeal and this post-class adrenaline rush, with motivation from my new friend enid, who left speech tonight with my card in tow and my url on the back. i must post something brilliant!

my latest discovery in the exploration of talented musicians was quite by accident as sunday night found josh & i at the coach house for the last leg of aimee mann's tour. the opening act was a mostly acoustic bit by teitur, with awesomely talented superhereo duo jeff & sara of nickel creek fame. talk about spoilage: i cannot recall the last time when an opener was such a treat to the ears! i ran, not walked, to buy the cd from the man at the front counter and rushed back for an autograph from teitur. oh yeah, that good.

what i said before about cover songs: i take it back. teitur did the most amazing rendition of "great balls of fire", only in minor. haunting. beautiful. my heightened level of excitement, or is it the declining levels of adrenaline, find no words capable of expressing my newfound sentiment for this lovely songwriter. teitur, incidently, looks an awful lot like my friend toni. um, well, i digress. it is late. i relinquish my writing talents to the sleep fairy: i do have to go to work tomorrow.