my friday
in awesomes and not so awesomes:
awesome: dinner at obelisk. why were we wasting all that time and money on galileo?
not so awesome: sliding up against a curb and face planting off my bike on the way to dinner in dupont circle. in front of about 32 million people.
awesome: getting a new cellphone. it has this thing called a camera in it!
not so awesome: waiting for an hour in the verizon store for any sort of service. old, fat middle-aged dude sitting next to me who tells me out of nowhere to stop biting my nails. i love complete strangers who comment on my bad habits and tell me they're not healthy for me and that it probably means something is psychologically wrong in my life and i should fix it and then maybe i won't bite my nails anymore. thanks. maybe you should lose 50 pounds. then you won't be a fat jerk anymore.
awesome: the wrens at the black cat. it's like - so, you've wanted to be a rockstar for 30+ years. and suddenly, you are. and what do you do? you rock the fuck out and are completely awesome. if you have never listened to the meadowlands, please do yourself a favor and listen, listen, listen! it's so wonderful.
not so awesome: being a complete zombie at the show as a result of four hours of lifting boxes and furniture. as i was sitting at the bar, staring blankly into space, as tommy and others were off being normal people and drinking beer and talking, a guy actually tried to come on to me with this line: "so, YOU look like you had a TERRIBLE day!" oh, lord.
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So I guess I should get a new pick up line? How about "Come on, why aren't you smiling?"
the more I think about it, the better that concert becomes. I've been listening to meadowlands all weekend. And totally understandable about being a zombie. I'm amazed you were still s tanding.
PS, tell Tom to ask his friend Jeff if he has a cousin named Jack Barile. If not, then I've been lied to for many years and someone, somewhere, owes me an apology, dammit.
The Jack Barile background check is underway. If necessary, I'm confident that the Nye family's vengeance will be swift and terrible.
And yeah, that was a good concert. Better than the first time I saw em there. I hope I rock that hard when I'm 40. Hell, I wish I had rocked that hard when I was 20.
I do wish, though, that their drummer would kick up the tempo a little to match the rock urgency they otherwise bring. Anyway, here's hoping they get booked at 9:30 next time round.
Yeah... no cousins named Jack. Unless my Aunt has more stories than she lets on.
THAT'S IT, I'M INVESTIGATING!
The Wrens show was a lot of fun, hopefully my photos will come out (I'm dropping of my film today). The Nein were pretty fun, although I watched a lot of their set while I was working the merch table and only caught the first few songs by the stage. The openers didn't do anything for me.
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