two things.

last night we went to a colin meloy solo show in hollywood, and it was good. he’s a very affable guy, very fun to hear talk between songs. he’s also not afraid to screw up in the middle of a song and admit he lost his place or rhythm — it must be hard to remember all those dense liberal arts lyrics he’s so fond of, which is either charming or funny that he doesn’t try a little harder. personally, i didn’t mind that much. also, he played a few new songs that i really liked, especially one whose chorus included lines like “this is why we fight… this is why we die, with our arms unbound”, which i’m trying really hard to find a recording of on the internet somewhere but failing miserably.

then there’s today, the great big nerd holiday known as the fourth of grand theft auto. don’t expect much of note out of me in the next few days other than, ‘oooo, this is really cool’.