Wonderful Weekends

Jan 09, 2005 20:04

Shiiiiiiit. It's good to have my weekends back. Last week was New Years with Serge's family. It was quite excellent. This weekend has been rad as well, and of course it's not over yet. I'm thinking of convincing Clint to go to rockabilly night at the Middle East again.

Yesterday I went to the bank and deposited some cash to make my pockets fatter. Had chinese food for lunch with my parents and hung out watching TV at their house. My dad and I looked through all their old 45's together and they have an excellent selection of choice hits from the 60s. I've stolen a few of them over the years. I wanted to ask for some of them yesterday, but there were so many I wanted to take it would have been like half their collection, and that's just wrong.

I went to Global Thrift in Waltham and found awesome shit. I got a motorcycle jacket for $20, a nice grey button-down shirt, a Russian soccer scarf (at least that's what I think it is - the name deffinitely isn't in English) and three LPs - Phonetics by Jules and the Polar Bears, the Rings self titled album, and The Age of Consent by 80s super homo synth boys Bronski Beat. The Jules album is catchy pop-new-wave-rock with a synthesizer much like the Cars. When I looked up info on the album on-line I found a quote from Kate Bush saying one of the songs is her favorite song ever. I dunno what that's supposed to mean. I don't really know anything about Kate Bush. It was a pretty good track though.

after finishing dinner I remembered that BLOWW had a meeting at TC's. I ended up being like an hour late but after the usual razzing nobody seemed to care. Some interesting news surfaced, and apparently we need to recruit some new members. After that, I visited Nixie at Kings. He was really excited to see me, and hopefully I'll get to hang with him more often.

Later on I went to Manray with a gaggle of people. Clint, Matt, Hanoch, Marie, Mike D, Jaclyn, Rob, Heather and Ian. More people showed up who I know. The music was on fire. Best night of dancing I've had at that place in a long time. He played the fucking Dead Kennedys. Marie lost her keys and almost couldn't remember what kind of car she had when she went to get them from the bouncer who had found them. Early in the night I was really pumped about the music and I was going wild in the cage. I kicked the wall and then slapped my left hand flat on the cement consequently IMPALING MYSELF ON A FUCKING NAIL. It looks like I tried to crucify myself - like I got one hand nailed to the cross, but just couldn't quite manage to do the other one. Surprisingly, I didn't bleed that much. I thought my hand was going to start spurting crimson fluids all over, but it just oozed a tiny bit. The nail went in fairly deep. When I looked closely at the wall I realised there were like 4 or 5 nails spread out horizontally a few inches apart. It probably went straight into a muscle or a tendon. My hand isn't so bad though - it's just a sort of persistent aching pain, although I've noticed throughout the day that I'll forget the wound is there and then try to crack my knuckles or stretch my hands backwards and the pain rears its head.

Today Marie and I went to Buddy's Truck Stop for breakfast. Had a GIGANTIC mushroom and cheese omelette with homefries, toast and coffee (which I don't like, but they give me anyway...) and then washed it all down with a can of the best shit ever. That's right, this diner sells Moxie. Everybody there is so friendly - they're all just looking for a reason to start a conversation with you. the food is delicious, cheap, and plentiful.

After a trip to the Asian food market we went to Mt Auburn cemetary and walked around the tower on the hill and the pond where the endangered salamanders live. Then we drove to Mystery Train records in Gloucester where I bought four more records. A two LP set of all the Undertones' singles and B-sides, a Russian pressing of Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones which has the Russian communist army belt buckle put over the original belt! The Dead Milkmen's "Eat Your Paisley" and what appears to be an early pressing of the Rush album Hemispheres with the gatefold sleeve and bonus poster included. That place is fucking amazing. I'm deffinitely going back because there were like a million things I wanted, and a whole bunch more that I'm sure I didn't even get a glimpse at.
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