Overdue.

There's been so much shit happening lately that I can't recall everything, but to try and sum up:

- I was jerked around at the Roadhouse after missing a shift of which nobody bothered to call me about being late for, and after almost 3 weeks was told that they "no longer have room on the schedule for me" because they hired back a guy who had previously quit twice and been officially fired once. They had a major grease fire in the kitchen a week after this happened. I smiled when I heard about it.
- The Mars Volta show was very arguably the best I've ever been to.
- The Rise Against/Alkaline Trio/Thrice/Gaslight Anthem show was pretty damn good too, minus kids crowd surfing during "Broken Wings". I'm going to start carrying something sharp to shove into their sides when they come crashing down on me.
- Conor Oberst and Ben Kweller are playing hear Harrisburg in a few weeks. Anyone interested?
- My car broke down at 2 in the morning coming back from the show. It's currently being fixed, with the problem basically being that I had another 5 miles or so before the entire front passenger's side of the car completely fell apart because of a whole happy combination of things. Again, Lou Fisher- I hope with every cell in my body you end up bankrupt and miserable.
- Dan and I gathered up the first 4 Saw movies and watched them Friday night, then went to check out the new one on Saturday. Not bad, but sub-par to the earlier ones. I can't see for the life of me how they'll be able to make any more that won't be a real stretch for plot.
- I've spent the better part of the last month living off of counting change from a SoBe bottle and donating plasma downtown.
- My iPod plays, but the screen is completely white and it constantly feels like it's overheating, so is essentially next to useless. Time to bring back the portable cd player again.
- Boston is not in the world series because they thought ahead and decided we will irrefutably win it next year if we have an extra 2 weeks to they off-season.
- The broken washer has finally been replaced, after over 2 months of weekly hounding the realty company to fix it.
- In order to end calls, I now have to turn my phone off then back on.
- I've now thrown up from excessive alcohol consumption. It was epic.

I started going through my iTunes collection and listening to at least one new album every day, since there are quite a few I have that I've never listened to. So far, the good ones include:

Person L - "Initial"
Atmosphere - "God Loves Ugly"
Squarepusher - "Ultravisitor"
John Lennon - "The Anthology" (One of the best collections I've ever heard)
Rogue Wave - "Descendents Like Vultures"
Modern Jazz Quartet - "MJQ: 40 Years"
Rise Against - "Revolutions Per Minute"

Other Recent Stuff:
The Pernice Brothers - "Yours, Mine and Ours"
My Morning Jacket - "Evil Urges"
The New Amsterdams - "Worse for the Wear"
The Mars Volta - "The Bedlam in Goliath"
Radiohead - "The Bends" / "In Rainbows" / "OK Computer"
The Get Up Kids - "On a Wire"
Matt Pryor - "Confidence Man"
Alkaline Trio - "Goddamnit!"
764-Hero - "Weekends of Sound"