"I Really Want To Be Your Friend Forever..."

Monday the 28th. It's nearly October! October is borderline crazy-jam-packed-IknowI'mgoingtowantmoretime month! AHH!

Still, I seem to be taking all of this above data in rather calmly. Sipping on a glass of orange juice and eating nearly moldy toast with peanut butter? Quite the calm experience.

To keep myself from going crazy in October (oh yeah, did I mention I don't get to see my significant other for quite some time???), I've got to rely on my one fallback-- music. Thus, I've done the unthinkable...the world of torrents and immediate satisfaction. I'm still a little mixed on how I feel about downloading full albums so easily. As most of you may know, buying CDs is still part of my life.

Anyway, here's three songs for today. More new Girls, some old-school My Morning Jacket and new Atlas Sound (off of their upcoming Oct. 20th release, Logos) And because she's home sick today, these all are dedicated to my wonderful Genevieve. Get some rest girl.


Girls - Laura
My Morning Jacket - Sweetheart
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal (feat. Laetitia Sadier)

Delta Spirit at Bottom Of The Hill 2/4/09

Took my first ever trip to SF's famous Bottom Of The Hill concert house/club last night. I say house only because it's basically a converted house. Or at least that's how I saw it.

Lately I've been seeing things in a generally weird way.

Anyway, aside from that the show rocked. Openers Dawes (myspace.com/dawestheband) and Other Lives (myspace.com/otherlives) provided two nice sets before

 Delta Spirit came on. My one complaint is that Other Lives didn't have their cello player turned up enough or something because the poor woman sat in the corner and played beautiful-yet-barely audible cello strings.

Delta Spirit came on around 10:30 and played to what seemed like a full house (not the John Stamos kind). Lead man Matthew Vasquez provided a ton of energy - honestly the guy could be considered mentally unstable in some way, he uses a ton of crazy facial expressions and head nods while looking at certain audience members. They played about 4 new songs that they said "would be out later this year" and went through most of last year's Ode To Sunshine.

This show was also my first concert with my new Rebel XS D-SLR. I didn't take many pictures but still got a few decent shots of Vasquez. Once I buy a better lens I'll be set for that part of attending concerts (I'm still using the stock 18-55 mm lens right now).

Concert rating: 8/10

myspace.com/deltaspirit
(I'd post a song but I only have iTunes protected mp4s...boooo)