johannes recommends:

the futureheads show is finally here! the show is tomorrow night at the grop shop, and i am soooooo excited! we actually called and bought our tickets within minutes of when they became available, because we are just big geeks like that. mike and i are going together, and jim and david (and of course justin!) will meet us there, as well as greg and dyan's friend tom, whom we've been meaning to contact.

i think of the futureheads as johannes's favorite band, because he responded so strongly to them. when we read hans books in utero, we got nothing. when we played other music, he responded, but gently. but when we played the futureheads, he went nuts. the first time the three of us listened to the cd and i felt him rockin' out was one of those rare moments of pure, unvarnished happiness.

three weeks after hans died, we saw their show at slim's in san francisco, and it just rocked. we cried through most of the show, but it was still great. i had to sit on the sidelines, perched on a speaker, since i really wasn't supposed to be pogo-ing three weeks after delivery. but tomorrow night i can dance all i want to, dammit.

(blogger, wonderful blogger - it won't let me create hyperlinks today without sabotaging my text, so you'll have to google the futureheads for yourself - on their site, you can listen to their stuff. do it. really. at least do it in honor of hans.)