The one thing I hate about weekends
Blog traffic, messaging, email, MySpace comments: everything stops on Friday afternoon. What exactly is everyone so busy doing that they don’t have time to drop updates on Saturday or Sunday? ![[WS]](/blog/media/end.gif)
Solve
My music collection, while by no means exhaustive of any genre or even generally expansive, is large but recently has been rendered completely insufficient by my brain. I’m feeling like it’s totally played out. Please help me with some suggestions in the comments.
Week in review
Last weekend involved a trip down to Boston for the Jamie Lidell show at the Paradise. Beforehand, my companions and I dined at the most un-Newbury restaurant on Newbury, Shino. Truth told, I was grossed out by the heat blast greeting us as we walked toward the unappealing facade, but the food was up in quality. They make all their sushi with brown rice, which also grossed me out initially, but turned out to be a rather pleasant companion to the fish. Lidell took the stage on time and powered through a killer set dressed in what seemed to be the same outfit I saw him wearing two years ago, and with much of the same indefatigable energy and bravado. Most of the content was, predictably, from his recently released sophomore album, Jim, but he threw in a few gems from Multiply to round out the set, including a freakout rendition of the title track as the encore, visions of James Brown dancing in my head. I was glad to see that while he brought a band with him (God bless his horn player), he kept some of the knob-twiddling/beatboxing/synth-freaking solo elements of his shows past.
Sunday and Monday were spent in Providence with Rosie as a sort of early send-off. Tuesday morning she departs for Ulsan, South Korea, to spend a year teaching English to youths, and I couldn’t be happier for her. She’s been trying to get out of the country for some time now, and it’s finally come to pass. Sunday night we held a party in her honor involving many of her friends and fine food in a Mexican fiesta setting, replete with piñata. Monday was spent mostly being lazy, as it was hotter than balls and we didn’t get out of the house until later in the day, although we managed to perform a good-sized clothing cull.
Tuesday through Friday, work has been work. What’s to say? The Tea Ladies, a clique of some of the Dover’s most lunatic and incendiary women, were found to be smiling yesterday by my hand, a rare feat indeed. Our new manager is great. My composure meter is rising slowly but steadily, but I’m still neglecting my community sidework, as it were. My schedule could sadly not be altered for today and I’ll be (yet again) missing the Pride March in Boston. One of these years, before I get too old to walk maybe.
Fat, old Playstation 2 has been sitting unplugged since I returned from North Conway. My fingers have atrophied from a lack of IIDX, but I might be okay with it.
Poke man
If I were going to be a Pokemon, I’d want to be called Duffy, so I could yell “Duffy! Duffy!” Or maybe Rockferry.
Damp Thursday
Just a quick note to catch y’all up, those few of you still reading here. I’m back from North Conway for good. Two weeks in a hotel was less than glamorous, and working in a store where new and training partners comprised 50% of the staffing was most definitely stressful, but some good came of it: I learned the true meaning of composure, and I got some sick kicks at the Adidas outlet.
Now that I’m back, my time away from work is largely being spent catching up on Bleach. Despite watching the first 46 episodes in rapid succession when the show was new, even at one point catching up to the show as it was being broadcast in Japan, I stopped watching for the better part of three years. I’m now on number 93, but I think the newest episode released was 172. I’ve got a lot of work to do, but I’ll get current again. This sort of show never appealed to me before; Bleach is a shounen anime after all, but there seems to be some imperceptible differences that allow me to get absorbed in it, something that never happened with any of the other popular shounen series.
I’ll put some more words down later when I get home from work.