[grumptastic list of five things.]
I honestly don't have much to say lately -- that is, much that any of you care about. That said:
- Now is the time of year when the BCS gets hairy and I get obsessed with midgety graduate student quarterbacks in Texas and with non-BCS conference undefeateds, and also basketball season has started which means a) I have to devote a lot of energy that previously went to, say, posting on lj to worrying about the collective health of the Carolina men's basketball team and b) I spend a lot of time thinking about the guys who write and broadcast the Basketball Jones podcast, the former being of no interest to anyone but other Carolina fans, and the latter of no interest to anyone but shep.
- Saturday night we slogged over to G'boro in the butt-ass cold (for North Carolina) to see a beloved almost-not-quite local band play, and not only were there some true story hysterical covers -- trad bluegrass covers of "American Music" and "Like A Prayer" by the opening band, Americana-fusion-y covers of "Another Brick In The Wall", "My Girl", "Baba O'Riley" by the headliner -- but there was also a fight! We never go to shows with fights! (There was a briefly aborted swinging of fists between two 40-something ex-punks at the Hold Steady show in August, but it lasted about ten seconds.) It was very exciting business. (The set was awesome, too, but mostly THERE WAS A FIGHT. I think the hipsters in the CH are too lazy and disaffected to fight.)
True story, one of the best shows I've seen all year. I can't stop thinking about it. I want to see Centro-matic again so desperately. Will Johnson, come baaaaack!
- Thanksgiving this week, and this year I am thankful for many things, including the roof over my head and the job that pays the bills, my friends and my family and my friends who are family, but this year, I don't know, I think I'm most thankful that this country went to the polls on Election Day and changed the way we live here. And, okay, also the fact that the Carolina football team is going to finish over .500. But mostly the part about Barack Obama.
- I hate this Monday SO MUCH.