I had no idea that other people lower-cased e.e. cummings name.

Funny, that.

Do you have any idea why k.d. Lang chose to lower-case her first initials? I’m sure she’s explained it many times and it’s likely just a Google search away, but I ask you because you know things. You have a fine brain there, David, and I thank you for using it and occasionally turning it’s attention to my blog. Without it, I would continue in my sloppy ways, always capitalizing k.d. Lang’s name and never knowing that e.e. cummings was an affectation applied by other people, so sincerely, thank you for that.

k.d. Lang has a truly sublime voice, a voice that very literally works a kind of magic on her audience. She’s a fantastic woman, I think, truly great, and Calling All Angels is a song that always takes my breath away.

In some ways it may seem like extreme arrogance, but ya gotta be tough to break through the barriers. They both have what it takes. In spades.

Thanks! And you should know that when I bought a glass of wine at the concert it was served to me in a beer-sized plastic cup, full to the brim, so you know, that was pretty awesome, too!

I’m glad you got to hear her live, and that you enjoyed it.

I thank you most kindly, and I have to say that the show, using both what is real and false in revivalist church events, had it’s own kind of sanctity and congregation. It was secular, of course, but it was a spiritual kind of home for many who had likely felt marginalized in the their lives–as Lang said, it was a safe zone for freaks of all kind, a place absent of haters.