Good morning! Hello! How are you? I am okay. Sun is shining and it’s gonna be in the mid-70’s today, even if I am convinced this is sucker’s fake spring. Also, it’s Friday! And that is nice. And I have it off again. Which is nice in concept but I have to leave the house today it’s gonna be INTENSE. Gotta help mom do a Zoom doctor’s appointment in an hour or so, then we’re going to leave, swing by the UPS store to drop off some returns, then swing by the Chatham PTA thrift to drop off some books. My mom reads a prodigious amount of novels. One a day or so. In many ways, she’s living the retiree dream. I really wish I could read even a quarter as much as my mom does. Then we’re off to another doctor’s appointment, this one at the UNC campus. It’s a new building (it’s astonishing the rate at which UNC medical springs up entire new office complexes), so not sure of the accessibility. Gotta add a little time for that. Then we gotta swing by the Asian grocery like I mentioned yesterday. Shaoxing wine, bamboo and Kit Kats. Big day. Maybe Home Depot. Not sure if there’s gonna be time.
Your talk of live Jesus Chain shows, made me reflect on some awful choices of live shows I made back in the 80s. The Orlando music scene was dead so to see any serious show, I had to drive 9 hours to Atlanta. I ended up not making the drive for Jesus and Mary Chain because I knew from reading NME that it would be a 20 minute drunk, shit show. But, now I realize that I'd look back on that shit show with such fondness today if I had gone.
I'm a bit embarrassed that a few months later, I did choose to make the long drive to see Gene Loves Jezebel (on a road trip with Mark Massaro!). Not a bad show, but really? I chose that over Jesus and Mary Chain?
Your talk of live Jesus Chain shows, made me reflect on some awful choices of live shows I made back in the 80s. The Orlando music scene was dead so to see any serious show, I had to drive 9 hours to Atlanta. I ended up not making the drive for Jesus and Mary Chain because I knew from reading NME that it would be a 20 minute drunk, shit show. But, now I realize that I'd look back on that shit show with such fondness today if I had gone.
I'm a bit embarrassed that a few months later, I did choose to make the long drive to see Gene Loves Jezebel (on a road trip with Mark Massaro!). Not a bad show, but really? I chose that over Jesus and Mary Chain?