Stop Playing With Your Organ, You Lush!!
Played a last minute Car Stereo Destroys Michael Bolton Tape show on Sunday night (also, coincidentally my birthday). It went…well, OK to Good to Bad, I think. We ended up playing a lot later than we expected (after we were the last ones to find out people thought we were playing this show), and our set got cut really short. So the upshot is, after waiting behind a table with our laptops while two other bands played, we ended up getting cut short by another band after about 15 minutes into our set. And some drunk asshole who owned the house the party was at decided to start playing the organ in the room DURING OUR SET. Because, y’know, we didn’t go out of our way to play this show at your party or anything. We didn’t haul our gear up your damn hill and into your house to, y’know, maybe try to entertain some people or anything. And y’know, we don’t really need to be respected as performers, I mean, shit, we’re only staring at screens and twiddling some knobs, right?
Asshat.
Anyways…I got a copy of GTA:Vice City from Emily (Yay!), and ended up playing around with the tank cheat most of the weekend. Great way to rid yourself of the frustrations of a show like that. Shotting spree in the mall, running over the FBI with a tank….ah, this is the life. Also got a portable CD player from the folks, so I can finally listen to music on my lunch break again.
I finished reading the DaVinci Code on Monday, too. My boss loaned it to me a couple weeks ago, and i finally read through the last third of it yesterday. It’s a really interesting book, a pretty commercial mystery/thriller genre piece, but it bases it’s story on lots of history/symbology/conspiracy theory ideas surrounding Leonardo DaVinci, the Last Supper and the Holy Grail legend. It’s one of those books that gets you searching the internet to fact-check it, and finding some pretty astonishing facts. Definitely food for thought. And a pretty tight little plot, that stretches plausibility a few times, but keeps you on your toes and sucked into the story. Now that I’m finished, that, I’ve had a chance to start reading Thomas Pynchon’s V again. I got about a third of the way through it two years ago, then had to return it to the JC library at the end of the semester. I figured I’d just start again from the beginning, since I can’t remember enough to pick up halfway through. But I love Pynchon, and his writing is worth re-reading anyday.
Hmm…more later I suppose.
