Better Than: Sitting at home, curled up on the couch reading Proust and listening to NPR.
The Decemberists have asked a lot of their fans on this tour. Anyone who doesn't like its new album, The Hazards of Love, is out of luck: The first part of the show is a front-to-back performance of the sprawling song-cycle, whose plot is too convoluted to spell out here. Let's just say it involves an omniscient narrator (The Rake) who's killed three of his children; a man named William who was turned into
Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Current GRAMMY nominees Adele, Chris Brown, and Sugarland; a special
performance with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift; and a Four Tops tribute
featuring Abdul "Duke" Fakir (2009 Lifetime Achievement Award hon
