Scene and Heard

Elected!

Photos by Nate Dorr » Scenes from EXIT Art, where Ava Luna played and people watched Obama on the big screen.

Text by Nate Dorr
Posted on November 05, 2008

Some thoughts.

So many people that the bar ran out before the open part was even done and they had to close it to restock.
Delicious vegetarian chilli, screen-printing, 300 radical political posters around the walls.
Sake2me is a kind of attempted-trendy sake-based soda (soda-based sake?) that comes in flavors like "green tea" and should be probably avoided unless wine coolers are proving too strong for you.
R. Luke Dubois put everything in context by displaying the most-used words of each president's collected State of the Unions and reciting representative quotations from each.
Ava Luna played with such simple, magnetic freshness of sound and approach -- revival tent charisma with old spirtual/gospel backup, rammed through a vigorous post-punk rhythm section -- that the iffy acoustics of playing in an enormous gallery space, and the rough edges of new innovation, mattered not at all.
The most important election in memory gave us our most promising leadership.
Even outside, later, people screamed from cabs, high-fived on the subway, hugged and fist-pumped and grinned like crazy.
I'm still a little stunned and amazed.

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Yes, I think that was a real downer for everyone, we were thrilled at the turnout, it was a great feeling to share it with so many different people who celebrated as one, but more thrilled with the political outcome.

— Jeanette on November 10, 2008

Man, it looks like I missed it by 4 years!!! The last election party at EA was a real downer... I'll be there in the next 4 years.

— peter on November 07, 2008