Come on if you're gonna come on.

I was going to blog about the amazing evening I had when I saw Twin Forks for the second time in three days, this time at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, but I wrote to my dear friend Becca T, and I'm just going to post the email because I kind of love it, superfluous exclamation points and all.

So Elaine came with me tonight to see Twin Forks, Dashboard's new band, at the HORSESHOE TAVERN!!!!  She had lots of fun, and it was a great show!  You should have been there.  I am going to look for a random bar concert to go to when you are here, OK?

Anyway, YES, he is still as attractive as ever and his new music is great.  It's like bluegrass-emo!  You should get thee on the iTunes and download the Twin Forks LP.  I bought the vinyl tonight and I'm listening to it as I drink Bourbonade.  (Bourbon + Lemonade which my pal Matt from Winnipeg invented tonight and I named.) 

Also, he played three old Dashboard songs: Swiss Army Romance, Hands Down, and Stolen and everyone sang along like they were on Dashboard Confessional Unplugged (remember how much you hated that?).  Poor Elaine, she was asked me a question when he started Swiss Army Romance and I screamed and jumped into the air, launched into song, and high-fived the beer-hoister* in front of me.

It was a fun time. 

Twin Forks.  Trust me.  It's Dashboard for our thirties.

Seeing a concert at the Horseshoe (or other small-ish venues) on a warm summer's night brought me back to my early twenties because that's what Becca T and I used to do.  I even had the impulse to walk all the way home tonight, because that's what we used to do back then to save money on subway fare, but then I realized that I live much farther away from downtown now, and I have a Metropass anyway. 

*Beer-hoister is a term we use for those who hoist their beer into the air in celebration during a concert.