day five, standing by
Keeping on keeping on… not thinking about it quite so much as the past few days. Weekend plans were initially ambitious but for a number of reasons have been scaled back… not the least of which is I’m not sure I’m up for a weekend of concerts, drinking and… not smoking around a bunch of people that are.
We were going to catch Thievery Corp at the Wiltern tonight, but I spent last evening giving the album a really critical listen. I can’t justify spending $30 on a show for a band I only kind of like. Frankly, there’s only about 3 really good tracks on the album, and I’m still maverick enough to not like something simply because I’m supposed to like it. Fuck the industry alternative darlings, I say…
So instead we’re catching a friend of ours in a play and then off to Finns for the normal thing.
Saturday evening was somewhat more of a tempting proposition - FC Kahuna and Ladytron! Just one catch - they’re both doing DJ sets, not playing live. Fuck that. Why do I want to watch them spin other people’s records? I want to see them doing their own damn music. More people need to stand up to this DJ bullshit. Boycott damn it, otherwise they’ll all just keep doing this because it’s cheaper and easier than doing a real live performance. I’ve already totally given up hope on ever seeing Aphex Twin perform live. We’re stuck with him playing records (poorly) and oversized bunny rabbits dancing about while he does so. I just don’t do enough drugs to make that interesting.
Saturday’s up in the air, then. Probably nothing.
Enough rambling. Last note - watched “My First Mister” last night. Not too shabby if you can get past all the crap goth cliches. Wendy had a good point, though - I may not have acted like that, but damn near all my friends did.
By the way, if you’re a goth, living in Los Angeles, and even manage to score a job working at Retail Slut, how in god’s name can you run around and pretend that no one understands you? You’re surrounded by people that have the same damn outlook and write the same damn suicide notes and not really mean it!