I had the privilege to see Elvis Costello live this past sunday night.
He was considerably older and less pigeon-toed than his younger self, but can still rock a 2 hour long set.
Although he is now sporting a really creepy mustache that seriously needs to leave his face.
This is footage from the concert that I didn't take, I found it on youtube, so thanks to the person who recorded it. And kudos for sneaking a video camera into a festival so strict that they confiscated my sunscreen.
I added a Tom Waits station to my pandora, and I've been appreciating his music more and more.
... Does that sentence make me a hipster? Shit.
(By the way, as it turns out, a grand majority [read: 99%] of my readers come to my site from an image of the New York Dolls that I posted up here a while ago that somehow got bumped up to page 1 on google search. I use the term "readers" lightly, they probably steal my stolen image and go on their way. The other 1% is searchbots. I'm singing to an empty room here.)
Goal of the day: Get from Otis Redding to Mojo Nixon to The Clash on Wikipedia in less than 5 clicks
Accomplished.
(And not as futile or useless of an exercise as it sounds. The journey there was a great overview of punk rock and it's evolution from rockabilly and blues music.)
This step guarantees that you will have no chance of absorbing all the information thrown at you, forcing you to do a half-assed and frantic job at the things you manage to get done on time.
Step 2: Have a labor-heavy day job
Why stop at destroying yourself mentally? Carting around speakers will lead to sore muscles, completely breaking your physical self. Weird hours will guarantee that you'll be sitting around bored and penniless for weeks on end before getting called into work the night your friends finally plan an outing. So long, social life!
Step 3: Sign up for an overnight job
What better way to wreck your body and soul than forcing it to stay up for 48 hours at a time? You'll see shapes, you'll wabble around with exhaustion, and the insomniac look (dark circles, sunken cheeks, lifeless gaze) has never been more in. The naps (read: comas) you'll need to day in the daytime to make up for the sleep will cause you to sleep through useless things, like: class, important meetings, study groups, and your other job.
