What I'm Listening to: The Foo Fighters Wasting Light

Love, love, love the Foo Fighters. (And Dave Grohl is my celebrity crush.) Their new album, Wasting Light, is all I've been listening to for the past week or so, and it is AMAZING. Love.

One of my best concert experiences ever was in the fall of 2005. My lovely friend Clayton took me down to LA to see a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and Dave Grohl played an acoustic set. I don't remember the venue, but it was one of those cool old music venues in LA, small and ornate and it was like a Tuesday night or something and the place was PACKED. Halfway through the set someone yelled out "'Skin and Bones'!" and Dave Ghrol said, "How the F@#! do you know about 'Skin and Bones'?" (He'd just written it, it had yet to be released.) And then he proceeded to play it, in all its haunting beauty. He also played 'Friend of a Friend,' which is about Kurt Cobain, also something that had yet to be released, also so sad and so beautiful.

This was in the recent aftermath of my brother being killed. I'll always remember that night as a little pool of light in my (at the time) dark, dark, dark world.

Love the Foo Fighters. Love that music can make me so happy.

XO