Jerry Falwell dies; I shrug.
And other things that happened today...
-I had my last final today. It's weird...I did well in the class I always expected to do poorly in, and did poorly in the class I once thought I'd do well in. Today was the latter. I'm pretty sure I failed the final today. Which is ok, all things considered, because failure doesn't really matter. I'd expect a BC or C in the class, which isn't particularly good, but it only really matters if I stick around for the Ph.D. But in any case, more than anything else, I'm just happy to be done with it.
-I went to see the Hold Steady in Milwaukee tonight. I've heard people say that they don't understand why people would want to live there. Aside from the hellish freeways, I didn't think it was too bad. It seemed like sort of a mixture of the most average parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not good, per se, but not really bad either. It had its charms.
-I was unaware of this going in, but The Heartless Bastards opened. They were good. I'd heard 3 or 4 songs before but never really went out of my way to listen to them. They seemed to fall somewhere between the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Rainer Maria. I don't know that I liked them as much as either , but maybe with a little more time to grow on me. I ended up buying their latest album.
-The Hold Steady were good. The crowd was more into them than any crowd I've seen in recent memory. Part of that may have been that it was an all ages show, part of it may have been that there were a lot of Minneapolitans who drove out to the show, but whatever it was, it was a good crowd.
I wore my Twins jersey to the show. It was more of a conversation starter than I ever could've imagined. A lot of people asked me if I was going to the game this weekend. Which is an inherently odd question, as there are three games this weekend. But yes, I am going to one. Aside from that, it prompted a lot of people to ask me where I was from and that type of thing.
The show was good. One of the best I've been to in a while. They're always fun (if a little odd) to see, because they seem like the most socially awkward band that makes an attempt to not be socially awkward on stage. Like there are a lot of bands that make a point of just sticking to music because they know their efforts to say something between songs or interact with the crowd will fail. Not The Hold steady. They're willing to try, even if they know they'll probably fail. And that's fun.
The show ended with about half the crowd joining them on stage. I was among that group. It was fun. On some level, it seems like the kind of thing that you should grow out of in time; that going on stage with a band should seem less significant as you get older. If that's the case, I'm not as old as I think I am.
-On the drive back, as I passed Miller Park, I saw that the sign said something about Jerry Falwell dying today. This was the first I had heard of it, and it struck me as odd that a baseball stadium would be a new source for things like that. But that's how it happened.
In any case, as I read the sign, my first reaction was something along the lines of a shrug. I felt like I should care, and maybe I do, just not in a fundamentally positive or negative way. I think it's more of a "Well, that happened. Ok. I suppose that's noteworthy." kind of thing. That's a weird kind of caring.
-I had my last final today. It's weird...I did well in the class I always expected to do poorly in, and did poorly in the class I once thought I'd do well in. Today was the latter. I'm pretty sure I failed the final today. Which is ok, all things considered, because failure doesn't really matter. I'd expect a BC or C in the class, which isn't particularly good, but it only really matters if I stick around for the Ph.D. But in any case, more than anything else, I'm just happy to be done with it.
-I went to see the Hold Steady in Milwaukee tonight. I've heard people say that they don't understand why people would want to live there. Aside from the hellish freeways, I didn't think it was too bad. It seemed like sort of a mixture of the most average parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not good, per se, but not really bad either. It had its charms.
-I was unaware of this going in, but The Heartless Bastards opened. They were good. I'd heard 3 or 4 songs before but never really went out of my way to listen to them. They seemed to fall somewhere between the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Rainer Maria. I don't know that I liked them as much as either , but maybe with a little more time to grow on me. I ended up buying their latest album.
-The Hold Steady were good. The crowd was more into them than any crowd I've seen in recent memory. Part of that may have been that it was an all ages show, part of it may have been that there were a lot of Minneapolitans who drove out to the show, but whatever it was, it was a good crowd.
I wore my Twins jersey to the show. It was more of a conversation starter than I ever could've imagined. A lot of people asked me if I was going to the game this weekend. Which is an inherently odd question, as there are three games this weekend. But yes, I am going to one. Aside from that, it prompted a lot of people to ask me where I was from and that type of thing.
The show was good. One of the best I've been to in a while. They're always fun (if a little odd) to see, because they seem like the most socially awkward band that makes an attempt to not be socially awkward on stage. Like there are a lot of bands that make a point of just sticking to music because they know their efforts to say something between songs or interact with the crowd will fail. Not The Hold steady. They're willing to try, even if they know they'll probably fail. And that's fun.
The show ended with about half the crowd joining them on stage. I was among that group. It was fun. On some level, it seems like the kind of thing that you should grow out of in time; that going on stage with a band should seem less significant as you get older. If that's the case, I'm not as old as I think I am.
-On the drive back, as I passed Miller Park, I saw that the sign said something about Jerry Falwell dying today. This was the first I had heard of it, and it struck me as odd that a baseball stadium would be a new source for things like that. But that's how it happened.
In any case, as I read the sign, my first reaction was something along the lines of a shrug. I felt like I should care, and maybe I do, just not in a fundamentally positive or negative way. I think it's more of a "Well, that happened. Ok. I suppose that's noteworthy." kind of thing. That's a weird kind of caring.
posted by Mike at
12:59 AM
2 Comments:
So will you be in town at all soon?
By
Jacob, at 1:27 PM
I might be, tomorrow actually. I don't really know, I suppose. I should generally be pretty free on weekends and could probably take a long weekend basically whenever I wanted to.
By
Mike, at 5:00 PM
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