How I Feel Now

It’s Sunday and the national news is bad.

My head hurts from the night I just had;

What a year it has been;

I’m thinking of you again.

 

Content with peace of mind;

And yet like insanity as it is defined;

Same thing again and again;

Alone with family and friends.

 

This love is as strong as any cult;

Cannot expect a different result;

Baffled in the grocery aisle;

The black tea makes me smile.

 

Cherish the moments and what it really means;

And there you are in distressed blue jeans.

I keep showing up and so do you;

Oh it’s real! And it’s true.

 

OK Go

 

OK Go is an amazing group of rock musicians from Chicago, now based in LA that are innovative artists. I was fortunate enough to catch as an invited guest of Integrity, a web solutions company in University City. Thanks to Lisa Grimm of Integrity for having me. (It was a great show and a wonderful distraction from the TV news follow-up of the Assassination Attempt at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Pennsylvania 7/13/24).

OK Go is composed of lead singer/guitarist Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, and Andy Ross (who joined them in 2005 replacing original guitarist Andy Duncan.) The band is known for its quirky and complex music videos which are often elaborately choreographed to be filmed.The original members formed as OK Go in 1998 and released two studio albums before Duncan's departure. The band's video for "Here it Goes Again" won a Grammy for best  Musc Video in 2007.

The show at the Pageant featured powerful performances by opening acts Mirthquake and Forever Winona. OK go lead singer Kulash engaged the audience and entertained the crowd, encouraging people to visit the "merch area and buy stuff because we're all going to Nashville next. If you don't and the bands still have stuff, they'll talk about you saying 'Aw, Saint Louis Sucks' so buy the stuff". This was one example of how Kulash connected with the fans. He invited questions from the audience and talked about everything from music videos, Japan, the Muppets and the set list.

 

L