Still Experiencing Sufjan-Concert-Induced-High!

This hardly conveys how spectacular it all is, but I enjoyed it.

Sufjan Stevens @ the Hilbert Theatre in Indianapolis, IN -- 11/4/2010

This was the best photo I got of the evening, as our seats were pretty high up and not so near the stage. Regardless, the concert was an incredibly impressive, stunning experience. I haven't been to many concerts, and this was my first of the "indie" type (besides a couple of local shows), but I doubt that I'll ever see anything close to how terrific this was. It was undoubtedly the best performance I've ever seen.

The people that I went with made stupid jokes all night about there being too many hipsters in attendance last evening. Sufjan's show was anything but smug or snobbish or pretentious or ironic, though. Say what you will about hipsters, but if that's what these people were, their taste in music doesn't hold up to their purported ideology. The performance was intimate and exposed, distinguished, but very unassuming.

I considered turning this into some sort of concert review, but I don't feel as if explaining the show in detail would capture what it was. It was numinous, powerful artwork. I left feeling inspired.

If you ever have the chance to see him live, you should go.