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PJ´s StorytellersPra quem não sabe, ontem o PJ foi no Storytellers, um programa bem conhecido por lá, onde as bandas tocam algumas músicas e falam sobre cada uma, além de responderem a perguntas da platéia.

Ninguém sabe qdo que isso vai ao ar na tv, mas pra quem não quer esperar, achei um review de um cara que foi (em inglês, claro, não vou ficar traduzindo não). Separei a review em músicas, pra ficar mais fácil. Destaque pra parte de Alive, q Ed fala que akela frase "I´m still alive" significava na verdade uma maldição, por ele ainda estar vivo sem saber quem era o pai dele de verdade. Foda pra kct. Aì vai então:

I'll try to recap to the best of my memory.
Setlist: Betterman, Unemployable, Worldwide Suicide, Gone, Sleight of Hand, Army Reserve, Insignificance, Alive, Here's to the State of George W, Life Wasted.

Betterman: Ed spoke about how he had learned about women in abusive relationships and how it is harder to get out of those relationships than he thought. And then compared George Bush and the administration to an abusive relationship that we cant seem to get out of. (The entire show was incredibly political).

Unemployable: Ed talked about how the corporate outsourcing of jobs has left many american workers fucked.

Worldwide Suicide had no story I think...

Gone: Ed talked about how the band now has 5 or 6 songs that take place in a car, driving away from someones problems. Made a reference to Bruce Springstein, saying he has like 40 car songs, and he's still the Boss but theyre working their way up to assistant manager.

Sleight of Hand: Ed talked about the times when youre sitting in traffic, like dead stopped traffic, and you wonder why you didnt get off the last exit, and then sitting there alone you start to ponder all your decisions over the last 5 or 10 years wondering how you got to where you are.

Army Reserve: you can pretty much guess exactly what he said. How its young people over there dying for a lie, and how much one death affects so many people, (with a refence to the festival 6 years ago.) And for all the wrong reasons these kids are dying makes it even worse. Something to that effect.

Insignificance didnt really have a story.

Alive: was by far the highlight, and most emotional part of the show. Ed spoke of the lyrics and story, and said he knew the guy it happened to, and then people kinda laughed and then he said it happened to him. And then came the best part. He said that when he wrote the song, the line "i'm still alive", was what he referred to as "the curse" (curse = maldição). Because his father was dead and he was still alive with the burden of never knowing who he was while he was alive. But then he said as they started singing that song live at shows, they saw how the fans took that chorus and found their own meaning in it, in the fact that they, while singing it, felt the celebration of being still alive. Huge cheer, very emotional. I wished there was more of these kind of stories instead of the political agenda, but, its Ed, so its to be expected.

Then they set up for the Q&A. Ed had the stack of hand picked cards, and gave the first one to mike, who said the name of the author, and then instead of letting the author get to one of the designated microphones to ask the question himself, mike just read the question. The rest of the Q&A was pretty bad. They continued not letting any of the authors of the questions actually ask the questions. None of the questions they picked were really that good. Then Ed said, ok lets play one more song, and they went into Life Wasted with no story to end the night.

All in all, it was amazing. A tad too political. I was hoping for more personal stories about the band and stuff, but Ed cant help himself I guess.