Last weekend was fantastic. I'm disappointed that every weekend that follows it is bound to suck because it was so awesome. It effectively started on Thursday evening, when I left work and stopped at home to sign an additional 7-month lease at an astronomically ass-raping rent of $765 a month for a stunningly small apartment in a phenomenally boring suburb of Charlotte. That part wasn't so great, and neither was the harrowing drive over to NoDa, where the Neighborhood Theatre is. I made it okay, parked directly in front of the venue, picked up all of my tickets (two of which didn't get used, but that's okay... I spent Friday night a better way and the man's friend couldn't make it up), and went across the street for drinks. I sat there and got to know the few patrons who were sticking around (one of whom was working the door at the Theatre that night) and sampling their great beer selection. I met some friends of moe.'s drummer, who'd flown down from NY to see the 3-night run, and met some kids from PA who'd come down for the same reason. Pretty decent folks. In the show, I was pretty amazed at the youth of the better part of the crowd, and not too surprised by the conversation I heard, since I'd heard it a million times before at a million shows. ("Dude, I'm SO high", "Dude, this is my 16th show, I'm, like, so badass", "Oh yeah, well I got some Dead recordings from my dad, man, and they're ...", etc., etc., ad infinitum)
The show was good - I don't recall most of the setlist, but I do know they played Crab Eyes. And I just kept thinking to myself how great that was because my ex used to HATE that song. Strangely it reminded him of my past and he always hated when that song got played at shows. So when I heard it, I was like, hell yeah, that Crab Eyes is for you, ass. While I sometimes miss him, for the most part, I'm glad we're over... the good stuff we had is hard to forget, while I so easily willed away all the annoying shit from memory; there was PLENTY of annoying shit. Anyway, so that was pleasing to me. I went home at the end of the show and had to go straight to bed because I had to work on Friday, which really sucked, but I took a half day, which was cool. Speaking of work sucking, I get to leave now, so I'm gonna follow up with Friday's activities another time.
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