so far this has been a great week (i'm not home). i came up to visit my friends on thursday, and we've been having a jolly old time since then. yo.

on friday i went to a great concert. it was like four bands. the first and last bands (Track Star and... i forget.... mark or mike something) were alright, but the middle two were completely amazing. starting with Azure Ray. this is a band i've never heard of, and they were fucking amazing. it was mellow and soulful and... great. the band was comprised of two girls on vocals and guitars, a guy on guitars, and another guy on bass and a drum machine. conor oberst from bright eyes filled in on keyboards every once in awhile, but all the songs were amazing, so it didn't matter.

and then bright eyes. conor was pretty angry at the crowd because they sucked. i'm not sure what they were there for but it didn't seem like it was to listen to music. despite that, bright eyes was good. they had new songs. it was obviously great and there really is no reason to go on and on about how it ripped out my soul. basically the bright eyes band was a reconfiguration of Azure Ray. one of the girls just decided to blow us all away by playing EVERY instrument on the stage. not only that, she played bass while SMOKING. i mean, i'm not into smoking... but that was fucking cool. you just can't deny it...

... crazy Athens chicks. they're great.

at the end of the night i wanted to pick up the collection of songs cd and the Azure Ray cd... but they were all out of EVERYTHING by that time. i decided that i needed a cd and got desperate for NO reason. after that i infiltrated any area that said "staff only" in the hopes that maybe i'd run into one of the band members or something and they'd "hook me up." in the end, i just ended up getting lost and finding the back exit. it sucked. i sooo struck out. i think i was mostly desperate because i REALLY wanted that Azure Ray cd to listen to on my LONG train ride home on thursday...

i found a rose sitting on one of the tables in a water bottle... and totally snagged it... for some reason.

so, for the rest of the week, we've been having a pretty good time. taking long walks in the middle of the night. raiding Albertsons. riding RAZOR fucking scooters (?). creating comics and flash animations and laughing and ridiculous in jokes...

oh yea. i'm here with like... my best friends ever. later we're planning on climbing up a nearby hill and then going to an open mic or some junk. i dunno. this is great though.

yea... and i am OLD. i'm an OLD MAN. but i'd still steal a volvo and drive away with mally...

also, i forgive adam for his post thing. he made that really cool POKEYesque pep boys thing for fusion... that's just great. it warrants total forgiveness.