Haven’t You People Ever Heard Of

The Wikipedia entry for the town I lived in during high school foregoes meaningful trivia and important history, instead listing at the top of the page a very important political fact: “The town banned using bedsheets as curtains in 2006.” It was just time, okay?

This morning I’d like to use a bedsheet as a bedsheet and crawl back into my bed. Last night I hit First Taste at HiFi to see Sarah and to swap cameras for the week; a Boy Kill Boy party at Calling All Kids! at Sapphire (which I was supposed to photograph, but it was pretty much just the band who showed up); and Whip It! at Stereo to see friends and maybe take a picture of Madonna.

Every time I start to hate this city and dread going out, I think about the year I spent in a basement with nothing to do, and I try to flash forward and think of current times as memories – I know in the future I will miss the familiar comfort of hanging out with the Brearly girls at HiFi on Wednesdays and going to Stolen Transmission on Thursdays and having Outsideshapes and Basementshapes on Saturdays – and then it all becomes a much nicer idea.

A little P!ATD bulltish: the single that’s on the radio now (the one with the stupidly long name) contains the words “it’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.” A google search for “poison rationality” in relation to the song brings up 1050 hits, and “poisoned rationality” yields 419. That means at least 1400 people who have posted to the internet since that song hit the air not long ago probably don’t know the word “poise.”