first off: i saw fugazi last night. they played a phenomenal set that completely rocked me from beginning to end. now that that's out of the way…

i started yesterday off as slowly as possible, not wanting to get out of bed. we eventually left town right at the beginning of rush hour, which turned out to be quite a process. with a few quick re-routing decisions, we were on the right track, saving some time. well…time was saved until we got about 45 miles outside of indy and traffic was down to a dead stop. they whittled the highway down to one lane, but that wasn't what caused the stand still…no…the complete halt of forward progress was caused by an endless parade of brainless fuckers and shits, constantly trying to get ahead in a non-moving line. i big frowning to that damn intrigue, hot-rod guy, and that stupid person in the prism that just got off at the exit to try to speed ahead and gain two car-lengths on everyone else. frown.

we eventually hit the location of the show only about an hour or so late, with a minimal amount of confusion. fugazi was sound-checking, and after settling in, guy and paul had to go out and pick up some minidiscs to replace the ones that guy conveniently forgot. as soon as they left the building, fugazi ripped into closed caption, just to spite those of a more forgetful nature. nothing compares to standing in a mostly empty room, with fugazi wailing on one of your favorite songs, not 10 feet away. that made all that traffic shit worth it.

the show: a band called monster zero orchestra opened up. when i use the word "band", i use it very loosely. they were an 18-piece (or so) orchestra, kinda in the vein of rachel's, except they lean more toward a brassier edge. they did an amazing arrangement of the faraquet tune "cut self not", and just generally impressed me. i found out later that it was their first show ever. yowzers.

fugazi eventually took the stage and blistered through a set that was easily two hours in length. they played tons of your favorites, as well as anywhere from 5-7 new songs (look for the official tally when the show hits transmission3000). the new songs were an amazing mixture of full-steam-ahead rock and the more experimental stuff they were doing on end hits, with most of them easily clocking in at over 6-7 minutes long. they also whipped out "furniture", which has only been seen on the instrument video. as many bands as i may see in my life, none of them rock me near as hard as fugazi. and you can take that to the bank. the crowd was amazingly well behaved, and ian at no point had to ask the crowd to "take two steps back" as he is usually wont to do.

we decided to try to milk the names of some of the newer songs out of them, but guy just told us that most of them don't have names yet, and that we should just make up titles. we were also pleased to find out that the new fugazi record should be out sometime in september. mark that one on your calendars, kids.

so we got home really late. i was falling asleep most of the way back, but as soon as i got home, i couldn't sleep. i sat in front of the computer, chit-chatting with a couple other people who happened to be online at that ungodly hour. i finally hit the sack right around the time the sun started coming up, which is something i haven't done in a long time.

hey zack.

by the way, gang…a certain mr. bob weston assures me that the pool out there at pachyderm is truly something to behold. you lucky fuckers. glad you're having a good time, regardless.

it's laundry day, people…what am i doing sitting around gabbing with you?