What a Weekend
Jamie Kohns on January 23rd, 2006
I completely missed the fact that my last post was number 100. Way to go me. Now for my recounting of the weekend- bear with me:
FRIDAY
First up, old friends Main Street East at Andrews Upstairs. MSE is releasing their song Caroline to radio this week. Go ahead, give it a listen, check out a live show- you'll like it.
After attempting a 30-foot, double somersault with a twist dismount from East Andrews' parking lot (okay, so it was like 8 feet, and I didn't stick the landing…and there was no twist), I spent the rest of the night babling about UK bands with a young Irish lass at Fado. It was refreshing to chat music to someone who actually knew about the artists I was talking about. Get with the program America.
SATURDAY
After watching some unimpressive football matches, drinking a few pints, and a much needed nap, I found myself back at Andrews Upstairs for Obsession Day. This talented atlanta act has a massive fan base, and always draws a good crowd when I see them. Amazingly, even the dance-party-usa kiddies at Andrews weren't upset when the band went well over the 12 AM cut-off time at Andrews. Check out their myspace page for music.
My proclivity for aerial acrobatics continued as I scaled the gate house at an apartment complex at two in the morning so that we could get a friend's car out of the parking lot. While I thought this event went without injury, I was soon to find it not so.
SUNDAY
Sunday started with the exceptionaly disappointing Liverpool loss to Manchester United, followed by a Chelsea draw and a few more pints of Stella Artois. To top things off, drinking and late nights in this crappy mid-January Georgia rain has left me with a bronchial irritaion (read: hacking cough). And my acrobatic feats have left me with a big bruise on my right arm (I told you that I didn't stick that landing- it was more like crash-and-tumble), and somewhere while scaling the wall I banged my legs up pretty good.
Finish the weekend off with Chinese food and Grey's Anatomy at Megan's house, and call it a weekend.
Oh yeah, in my CD player this weekend:
Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World
Richard Ashcroft's third solo attempt isn't that much different than his last two albums- the same anthemic approach to the song, the same introspecive lyrics- but this one works for me much better. The single Break The Night With Colour is a straightforward anthem. He's not tearing it up in a brekaing single, but it just flows. The album starts off really well, with Why Not Nothing? and Music Is Power giving the album a high-energy feel at the get-go. Break the Night With Colour rounds out the top three, and is followed by the sweetly simple and melodic Words Just Get In The Way. After the fourth track, the album heads downhill, loosing me in a series of tracks that just don't stand out against any other songwriter on the market today. It's only on the strength of the first half of the album that I'd recommend it- in which case, it'd be better to spend half the album price to download the first four tracks. This is the modern state of music sales.
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