I made my dad drive 400 miles! It is 200 miles to Oxford, and 200 back, and I saw him in the Students Union of Oxford Brookes University, which is for people who are too cool (read: stupid) to go to the actual Oxford University, and there were only about 200 people there, and I stood right near the front, and Neva Dinova supported, so I felt cool because I was wearing a Neva Dinova t-shirt when half the people there din't know who they were, and I met an American girl who had the same name as me, and enormous teeth, and then the band came on and it turns out Mike Mogis used to go to Oxford Brookes University which is why they played there, and there were plastic palm trees on the stage, so I was hoping at the end the trees would all get wheeled away, only they didn't. They played a lot of new stuff, and some old stuff, and Mike played pedal steel, and Nate Walcott the trumpet and keyboard guy looked suicidal all night, which is hard to do when you're playing the trumpet, but then I've never seen him once in a photo where he is smiling, and the guy playing the violin, Anton, like the violin bit in Four Winds was really sweet, and the drummer was a girl who used to drum for The Decemberists, and she was really shy, and I liked her. Conor is so...delicate, all small and skinny, with all that hair and pale skin, and he wore tight girl jeans and a jumper, and then he took off the jumper and had a t-shirt advertising San Miguel beer, and he asked the audience if they liked to get high, and we did, apparently, and he broke a guitar string, and I had a coke that tasted like earth, and it was less than one degree warm, and on the way home it began to snow.