Day 5
Suede, Park City, 27 January 2005
There's something that impresses me about Americans, which is the sheer speed of their politeness. When I walk into someone all I can manage is a surprised "muh?" and perhaps a "sorry". But these people can go "excuse me" or even "oh I'm so sorry" in the microseconds after the collision. It's extraordinary. Perhaps they're timed on it at school like we were with multiplication tables. The other thing I quite like about Americans is the way they say "actually" which gets rolled around the mouth for a good long while, giving all the syllables equal merit. In slow motion it would look like they were eating steak (but then pushing it out of their mouths with their tongue at the end). It's a lot more melodic than your southern-English-style "atchlee". I can't get used to the way they say "Arqualung", though.
We're playing second in a bill of about a million bands tonight, and then we're going to flee to Salt Lake City because we're flying to LA at 6am.
Before that we get to see one of our new friends' short film (or comedy sketch) the Slamdance festival, which is like the fringy offshoot of Sundance. It was very good. His name is Michael Lucid and you can see his stuff at www.prettythingsss.com.
The gig was fine, thanks. People seem to like Left behind a lot more here.
