r.e.m.

r.e.m. played at madison square garden last thursday, and we were lucky enough to be there. the national and modest mouse opened for them, and they rocked. however, r.e.m. knows how to make other bands look silly; michael stipe is the quintessential rock star, and he knows how to work a stage. we love him.

we were so moved with the show that we took some video so we could share the experience.

here are the problems with the video:
1.) our seats are very far away from the stage, so the band appears to be very small
2.) the lcd screen on the camera had been smashed into a banister at a subway station five hours prior to the concert. there was no way to see what images the camera was capturing (or if the camera was capturing images at all), so there was a lot of guesswork in pointing the camera at the general direction of the stage, zooming in, and zooming out. you will see that occasionally, the guesswork failed.

here are the good things about the video:
1.) they are rocking out on an r.e.m. classic "orange crush"

roll the video....