March 01, 2006
Same Old Song
I'm slowing going through all of my CDs importing them into iTunes and onto my iPod, and it's funny the memories the older discs will dredge up. I just put in Natalie Imbruglia, and I noticed that the CD actually belongs to my college roommate Dana and the CD booklet is warped - I would be willing to bet at some point someone spilled Malibu and pineapple on it.
I've also put on a few mix CDs that people have given me over the years, and when I was listening to one the other day, I had to smack my forehead with realization. It was full of love songs and I just thought - oh, DUH. Maybe our witty work flirtation was actually indicitive of something! It's amazing how clueless you can be sometimes, when it comes to personal relationships.
Like the time toward the very end of my senior year one of my fellow newspaper staffers asked me why we never got together and I was dumbfounded. He thought I wasn't interested, and it never even would have occurred to me that he would have been into me. The most interaction we had was when he, as the photo editor, would tease me along with the sports editor because I made the suggestion that we should run more "emotional" sports photos. (Because I'm a girl.)
I've always been pretty into music - not like that fraternity guy you dated who hoarded Dave Matthews bootleg tapes - but enough that I have a decent collection of ticket stubs and I don't mind spending money to go see someone I really like. I'm going to see four shows in the next four weeks, and I'm even considering selling my Wednesday night Death Cab ticket, buying a new one for Thursday, just so that I can go see Rhett Miller on Wednesday instead. Do y'all know how hot Rhett Miller is and how much I love ANY MUSICIAN to come out of Texas? But then I remembered that my tax return only contains so many dollars and I have a full-time job.
Posted by hannah at 08:43 PM
Death Cab and CYHSY, what other two shows?
My favorite thing to do when I ripped all of my cds recently was to wonder, "Now why was it that I bought (instert odd band name here)?" :)
Tomorrow night is National Grain and Patterson Hood and I'm also going to see Beth Orton.
Posted by Hannah on March 2, 2006 09:49 AMRhett Miller might be the sweatiest person I have ever seen in real life, but I don't mind. When I saw him in December he sang "Question" en francais and it was the cutest thing ever.
Posted by Emilie on March 2, 2006 10:53 AMI've contemplated going to the National Grain / Patterson Hood show, but I keep feeling like I have something else planned and no nothing about Andrew's Upstairs.
Posted by Paulie [eatl/ga] on March 2, 2006 11:08 AMEmilie, the last time I saw Old 97's, he sucked all the spit/sweat out of the mic and then spit it on the stage, and it was the grossest, and yet sexiest, thing I've ever seen in my LIFE. Allison and I almost fell down.
Paulie, you should go! The guys in NG are friends of friends, and they're pretty great. And well, you know Patterson... he's always going to put on a great show. Andrews Upstairs is an okay venue - it's weird that they're playing in Buckhead, but it's only $10.
Posted by Hannah on March 2, 2006 12:25 PM
