I totally got that same feeling, like whenever i see one line drawing. Just wanting to stand there and watch. A person up onstage with just their voice and their guitar is so much more powerful than a huge production for show. Her voice just carried through the room. She's has this really great voice. It's very high and clear, and you can hear everything she says down to the last syllable. About 3/4ths into her set is when she played "Spin the Bottle" and i was just like "NO FUCKING WAY!" I had totally forgotten about that song. I figured she might play "Universal Heartbeat" or "Make it Home" but not "Spin the Bottle." That was the highlight for me. haha. I was looking at her fingers on the frets while she was playing and she was just all over the place. Everytime I try to play that song, I can't because the changes are so quick. Maybe I should try to play it the way she plays it. Some other songs she played were "Your Eyes", "Ten Foot Pole", "My Protegee", "My Sister", "Somebody is Waiting for Me" and "As If Your Life Depended On It." Juliana's set ended about 4 to midnight. Everyone pretty much left immediately except for myself and like 4 other people. When they were done talking to her, i just had to go up to her and say something. So I thanked her for playing, and told her about how i missed all of those cotton club shows she played because i was too young to get in. So she said that she was happy that i could finally come and see her play. Then i told her that "make it home" was the first song i learned to play, and she said that she had forgotten about that song, and hasn't played it in a while. Then she said that when she was just starting to play guitar, she learned a bunch of R.E.M. songs and that she'd be so amazed that she could play something that this really awesome band was playing. It made her realize that they just weren't these magical people with special powers who could do things no one else could do. She could play these songs too. She's such a sweetheart, and still seems a little shy and reserved. But I'm happy that i got to talk to her. ACK! It's JULIANA HATFIELD. haha. I'm a nerd, but i didn't think i'd have that much fun.
So i said goodbye to Juliana and made my way back home. i was able to catch a Russell Hall bus. It had to stop at Russell/Brumby first of course, and it picked up a shitload of kids who were going downtown. Every single one of those kids was fucking drunk off their asses. They were being loud, and yelling, and swinging from the handles at the top. I was like, "What the hell" i was more than happy to get off at my stop. If there was ever a reason not to drink, it was those 50+ drunk 17,18 and 19 year olds on the bus.