Regina Spektor at Barnes & Nobles
A month after Regina Spektor’s concert in Soho Apple, she’s here again this time at Barnes & Nobles in Union Square. Even though I just saw her and will see her again in October at Radio City Music Hall, I still went to Barnes & Nobles – it’s free! so why not? It turns out to be a very unique experience than a regular concert. The format is a series that B&N called “Upstairs at the Square: Writer & Artist Mixed” where a writer and an artist were featured on the same stage, book reading, songs and interviews all mixed together in the event. It is very interesting and potentially awkward if they don’t interact well. Luckily Regina Spektor and the writer Kurt Andersen seems to be doing fine on stage together.
Because of the format, Regina sang much fewer songs but I actually quite like it since I get to hear her thoughts on her songs, her views on the world, her experience as an immigrant to New York in a young age, something that I can relate to. As always, Regina is shy and completely adorable. When people said “You know” a lot during a conversation would get annoying, but when it’s her, it become cute~ She just has that magical quality to her that is so unique, like an Innocent child looking at this world.
Kurt Andersen wrote the book “Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America”, which I must have seen it somewhere, maybe on the Daily Show or Colbert because it sounds strangely familiar. Anyway, he has quite a resume since he was editor-in-chief for New York Magazine, writer for New Yorker and Time, co-founder of Spy magazine, host of radio program Studio 360, and novelist of two New York based novels Heyday and Turn of the Century. He’s quite humorous and definitely a good sport to face an entire floor of Regina fans. (Seriously I have never seen B&N so packed!) He scores major points with me when he used Steve Jobs as an example for how an crisis can turn things around. His books definitely sound interesting and I will add them to my list~
I once again forgot my camera for the event, but luckily I can rely on the other Regina fans that I met back in the concert last month – yup, we have a mini-reunion this time! (they saved me seat and even bought me cookie! So nice!!!) they have a really nice camera and took some amazing shots. I borrowed some to show below:
The event was taped and will be broadcast on the web on B&N’s Studio page on their website.
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