She also asked audience members to tell people near them to SHUT UP if they are talking during the performance. It seemed that during the opening act by Coco Love Alcorn, who ani personally invited, alot of people were talking and ani felt that Coco wasn't given a chance by some in the audience. It fell into her anarchist view on self government within the audience.

She played several new songs from the Little Plastic Castles CD, including a new poem which held the audience spellbound.

And she played a mix of older material, including 'Fixing her Hair' which she claimed she relearned just to spite Andy. Most older songs were pre-Dialate. The only song she played from that album was Shameless on the first encore. The second was Princes' 'When Doves Cry' done as a sing-along.

Also, she may have hurt her thumb on Shameless when a string snapped. At least she was shaking it alot and didn't play the guitar on the second encore.

Regarding songs referencing her bisexuality, the only one played was Shameless. Otherwise you would never know that her orientation was anything but straight.

Finally, she talked a bit about a poetry club in New York where she went at age 18 and sat up front and watched some guy go on about relationships with women and used the phrase 'Like a body was a weapon, pounding,...pounding....' using a dramatic amount of thumping on the mike. She thanked the unknown contributor for the borrowed lyrics.

Weel thats it. Look for her cat to be on the cover of the new album, looking into a fishbowl with the 'Little Plastic Castles', if she can ever get her cat to cooperate.

She kept messing up on "every state line", forgetting the lyrics and stuff and so she started to just kinda tell the story and shes like see that's the benefit of folk music its all true, not like that "I IIII I I I will always loooooove you crap!" And she played what I think is a new song, now I'm not sure if it's the first time she ever played it or what... but it was really long and kinda spoken wordish, kinda bluesy, had a LOT of words, I really liked it even though I can't remember that much about it, it seemed kinda "political" about life and stuff, vs a song like independence day, which is more relationship oreiented, though as we well know ani blends the personal and political...ok so we all do... but it was a cool song so I hope for eveyones sake she plays it more often!

Hmmmm I think andy played the harmonica before Aniticipate but maybe it was another song he did... hmmm umm Overlap rocked, it was sooooo beautiful!

And she said how every time she is making a set list up and asked andy what she should put on it he says (she says in this whiney voice) "do fixing her hair", so she says... "so just to spite the fucker, I relearned it !" OH - and in the middle of The Slant, right after the fear of men part, she told a very amusing story about the song, how she went to this poetry reading of like 12 people or less a long time ago in NY and how this one guy went up and read his erotic poem and it was like right at her cuz she was in row 1 of 3rows, and he kept going.. POUNDING! POUNDING! And she was thinking ..... ummm ok then, hi I'm from buffalo, excuse me i think its time for me to leave now... so she said The Slant was kinda for this guy whoever he is wherever he is if he still is out there, and his pounding sex poem.... it was cool, then she went back into the song.

Pulse rocked, very wonderous, and independence day was very beautiful too.... ummmm, Gratitude was verrry cool, she twisted a lot of humor into .. I dont know what you and your sisters do, but uh-uh, not here not with me , no way.... it was fun, and very funked up, upbeat, for lack of better despriptive words...

She told a very amusing story about the photoshoot she was just at for her new album coming out, and how she was thinking - well she has 3 cats (yes i clapped for that! ;) being the cat owner I am) and if she can put her face on an album, why not her cats face.... so they had this fishbowl and her cat was supposed to act all excited about the fish, and shes like.. come on hundreds of cats around the world do this everyday for calander shoots, but noooo not mine, she just wants to lay on me in bed and wants me to feed her and put drops in her ears when she gets mites (and then she started doing a little dance and mime thing about putting in eardrops).... I dunno it was really funny .. so I guess that means the new album really will be called "Little Plastic Castle".... featuring the DiFranco cats...

And the encores rocked..... shameless is always cool, and She came out and said how we werent singing enough, so we had to sing with this one, and then she did a super cool version of When Doves Cry and she I think didnit play the guitar on that one, but was groovin and dancin.... She also said how people were asking her why she was playing at the Congress cuz it was in a baaaaad neighborhood, and shes like baaaad neighborhood, goooood neighborhood, its all people and this great theater was just sitting here not being used, and so now I'm doing a show and there will be a few more shows in the next few months and etc.. etc... it was pretty cool I thought... cuz its true if it gets up and running again it can generate some jobs and income for the neighborhood, and thats cool that she played there I thought. anyways, I was kinda inarticulate there... the show was great!