GARETH KEENAN INVESTIGATES

 okay so a couple hours later im feeling much better. keep in mind this is after a pretty fucking awesome faint concert, the line up of which was fucking solid gold. no exaggeration. concert run down: okay, first opener (high five -- i think) was solid enough... for an opener. the last part can speak for itself. the second opener -- shy child, was edging on talentless and unoriginal but they had pretty solid group chemistry and a solid enough understanding of how to do what has already been done before. okay, maybe that was harsh but, whatever. so the faint took about a century and a half to come on stage and my feet were falling off at that point. but the minute they walked on i forgot all about it. i mean, the delay was clearly related to some alcohol/shrooms/acid/ecstasy induced accident. the guitarist, dapose, was fucked beyond belief. he probably smoked something laced before which caused the delay because this "motherfucker" (as the lead singer todd fink so endearingly addressed the audience) looked like he was seeing fucking goblins or something. all that aside, the crowd energy was phenomenal, the songs were golden (the encore was: paranoiattack, the geeks were right, and glass danse) and overall, i fucking love the faint. which looking at the music ive been getting really into recently, is a little bit out of tune with my more mellow "palette", if you may. also, as im looking for a new dell im thinking of streamlining my music since im scrolling through the shit i have now and most of it is stupid shit that i thoguth sounded remotely good. NO MY FRIENDS, this computer it is about quality over quantity. so ill be putting up a list of bands i want to keep and bands i want to download since im trying to avoid overcrowding this computer with too much of the shit i want. oy.

    SPOON WAS PHENOMENAL. OMG OMG OMG, i just got home and although i had to go alone (long story which really doesn't matter since they were so AMAZING) it was THE best concert i've ever been to. i mean, i don't go to enough concerts to articulate better, but the lead singer's energy was great and the opening band, White Rabbits (which I like twenty million times more - they have two very hot drummers who have incredible band chemistry and they're kind of a darker vampire weekend in their prepiness), got on at one point and helped Spoon out and it was so cute. Except I think the lead guitarist in White Rabbits got a little overenthusiastic because he wouldn't get off the stage and Spoon's drummer like had to skewer him off the stage with his drum stick, lol. Spoon played SUCH a good set of songs; I have to get the full one from Eddie since I can't remember them all but all the songs they chose kept the crowd going. UGH! and the lighting was so great and so Spoon. And at the end, the drummer told the technician to give his drumstick to this little boy who had been in the front row the entire show and ugh, it was so cute and dreamy. Basically I'm going to go to sleep and have fuzzy dreams even though I didn't shower and have to wake up an hour earlier to do so to get the copious amounts of beer off my right foot.
 
            
 

    Anyways, I've been getting really into Dizzee Rascal recently. I don't know what part of me is so attracted to his music, but he's very honest and quirky in his own London gangster way... I really suck at articulating but whatever.

 

My esophagus really, really hurts. I don't know why, it's really scary. On a lighter topic, I went to Bloomies and I've been inspired to go through my entire wardrobe and clean it out. I'm going during sale season and buying all these new jeans and whatnot. OH! Reminder to self: actually get those Sperry Topsiders before everyone else gets them. I planned my junior year studying in 20 minutes. It's  going to SUCK... I'll put up my list in a private post. Whatever, all I have are concerts to save my sanity (about which, my mom assumes that I will be coming home right after them my junior year... mom they end at 10:30 don't be retarded, I'm an upperclassman)

    WOO! I'm currently downloading the new Beck album, albeit a little belated... I'm so excited for him to go on tour, I heard he was epic.

      
On the top of concerts I saw Feist on Wednesday.... phenomenal. She was just so cute and perfect and I wish I had posted earlier so that I could capture my enthusiasm a little better. So. Cute.           

    Anways, what has been going on recently? Oh, well art class is getting better and better although my recent still life kind of looked like poop and I restarted about four times. My mom had heart palpatations last night because she's anemic =[ But she's all right and the same old mommy I love. Oh well, I'm not really in a talkative mood right now and I'm really happy and although there are many things I could bitch about they really are not significant so WHO CARES.

Upcoming Concerts - 09/20 - 10/05: Stars, Ratatat, Hot Chip (maybe even Tokyo Police Club on the 18th but that's 18 and over and I don't have an ID... yet....)

Tomorrow: Read American Dream and The Goat, or Sylvia by Edward Albee. Watch Kill Bill I & II