freshly returned from the grocer’s, but you don’t want to hear about that. you’d much rather have me tell you about the new end original concert i went to before i went to get root beer and ice cream at ralph’s. so i’ll indulge you. first there was a band called red light halo which i’d never heard of and who played some songs i really like, until their equipment failed during song 4 and one guitar player was silenced. they had to just give up because he couldn’t figure out what went wrong with his gear. i was sad, they were in the middle of impressing me when that happened.

i must say, i really really enjoyed hearing and seeing new end original play. a colleage said afterward that he though jonah (singer) was arrogant and thought he was so great but wasn’t assertive enough to make you believe it. i thought the opposite. i get the impression he’s the most earnest, sweetest guy to play in a band in front of a crowd. he does the whole, “i’m sensitive and i love you guys for wanting to hear me play” thing that stupid dashboard guy does, but from jonah i believe it and it makes me happy. and the songs were good, because he has a fantastic voice, and writes interesting, pretty songs, and the band really knows how to rock when it comes down to it. a good mix of soft and touching with aggressive and pounding that hit the spot for me. i hope listening to the cd, which i bought at the show, is equally satisfying.

now i have to put forth a theory. the last few indie rock type shows i’ve gone to, as i’m looking over the crowd around me, i tend to notice attractive indie girls. it seems to me, though, that all the girls at these shows either are with a) their boyfriend, making them unavailable to me, or b) in a group of other girls that are putting off the definite girls-only, not-interested-in-anyone vibe. so does that mean that all the cute indie rock girls are either taken or don’t want to be? i keep hoping i’ll meet some great girl at a show and it’ll be perfect, because i’ll already have the head-start of knowing she was cool enough to want to see that band and we have similar music tastes, but that wish has never ever been anywhere close to coming to fruition. it’s sort of depressing.

at least the band are usually really good; i’m not pathetic, i swear.