thee show

I managed to get a reasonably decent picture of Friday night. girlstyle was talking about how she used to have a crush on him, and now he's old and kind of nasty, but I'm saying for her benefit that he still works out and while he resembles an aged Jon Bon Jovi from the neck up, he looks pretty good from the neck down.

I'm not so into seeing slow dreamy acts live, and was hoping for more pop numbers, but they seemed to turn even "Not if you were the last junkie on earth" into a shoegaze song. Anton Newcombe, on the other hand, while resembling a not-quite-dead , jazzed shit up. At first I couldn't tell that it was him, but he started being a jackass and I was reassured. Not as much of a jackass as one might have hoped, but still weird. He tried to quote an Onion headline but fucked it up so badly I can't even figure out what he was talking about. Also, like all white musicians, he wants to be black.

Anyway he was far more mellow than I thought he would be, and he seems to have learned to sing in the past ten years, so I rather enjoyed Brian Jonestown Massacre more than the Dandy Warhols. But I am old and tire easily when I drink and dance and sweat.

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I am so glad fall is returning. When I go outside at twilight and the darkness encroaches upon the horizon and the wind licks my neck, I can't help but feel a primal sense of restlessness, and I want to dance on a seacliff till I can't see how high up I am.

two good books

dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale
Shoba Narayan, Monsoon Diary

because the two things are exactly alike

So the implication is that if one is a woman, she can beat the crap outof someone for "disrespecting her?" This regressive behavior is typical of the violent youth I see who have so little impulse control that they beat someone up for "dissing them."