oh sarah, how we love thee

last night, for the first time in many years, i got the opportunity to see sarah perform live once again ... and she was amazing!

sarah who, you ask? well, sarah mclachlan of course! (i'm on a first-name basis with all my favourite singers .. sarah, lauryn, jill, alicia ... etc ... either that or i'm just to lazy to say full names, it can be exhausting you know ... there's a reason why we don't call each other by our first and last names all the time - in an aside, i was bored at work the other day and decided to start looking up what my last name meant ... at one time i had found my last name used as a first name in a baby name book and it said that it meant "bean farmer" ... well, that wasn't very cool .. i know last names are often a derivation of what a person used to do ... but bean farmer? there's a reason that i moved away from the country ... so anyway, i couldn't find anything that said my name meant bean farmer ... however, much to my surprise, i could find no internet source that told me that my last name meant "bean farmer" ... instead, it said that it was a different version of the french-name equivalent to "smith" ... not equivalent of smith due to its popularity but instead due to its literal meaning ... but still, smith is a popular name ... i want to me more original! in the words of bridget [jones, if you have to ask ... yet another "person" i'm on a first name basis with], i want something more extraordinary than that)

anyway, back to how great she was ... the control, the maturity of her voice, the strength, the clarity, the flexibility, the instrumentations ... i can only wish that i had that kind of talent.

so i would like to say thank you sarah ... thank you for your music and thank you for sharing it with us!

(my only complaint is that there were no songs sung from touch or solace ... now i can understand why there'd be not much from touch ... but solace had some good, solid songs on it ... and one of my favourites too ... but that's ok ... she has so much great material that she can just really concentrate on a couple of her cd's ... and i'm really glad there were so many from fumbling b/c that is definitely my favourite cd ... so many great songs!)

so as a final kind of wrap up ... here's what we heard ...

from fumbling:
- possession
- waiting
- hold on
- ice
- elsewhere
- ice cream
- fear
- fumbling towards ecstacy

from surfacing:
- building a mystery
- adia
- angel
- witness
- sweet surrender
(i think that's it)

from movie sound tracks:
- i will remember you
- black bird

from afterglow:
- fallen (opening song)
- world on fire
- stupid
- drifting
- train wreck
- push
- answer
- dirty little secret (final encore)

t'was wonderful! please come back again soon, sarah!