if you’ve been dying to leave comments on my last few posts for the past week or so, i know the comment service is busted at the moment, and i apologize. do feel free to email any pressing thoughts to the address under my photo in the upper right. i’ve been tempted in this extended downtime to switch providers completely, or go to the standard blogger ones, but those solutions all have their drawbacks as well. on top of the fact that i’d lose all my old comments, they don’t have the right customization options or require logins that i don’t want you to have to sign up for, etc.

things appear to be closer to a solution though over at their site, so my fingers are crossed that all will be well in another couple days. so save those brilliant words of wisdom or clever quips for just a bit longer.

my weekend was even more jam-packed than usual. out to dinner both friday and saturday nights. then yesterday was a marathon of activities, going from playing tennis with dan, to going to see 300 (also with dan), to a mountain goats show with jessica (which dan also went to), almost one after the other. it was a very good and very dan day.

the show was sold out at the el rey, which is surprising for the ol’ goats i’ve seen in much smaller places like spaceland, the echo, and the troubadour. so it was a bit hotter and louder than i’m used to. but the set was full of surprises as usual, since i’m sure it’d border on impossible to guess what’ll get played out of his massive catalog at any performance. quite a bit off the new album and the sunset tree, after all this was the ‘get lonely tour’, but some rarely-played cuts from tallahassee and farther back as well.

the real surprise was that the whole set featured a drummer along with the standard mr. peter hughes on bass, and that for the second half of the set john even went electric! it was a really nice shake-up from past shows i’ve seen, especially after him saying last year how he’s getting more into songs that don’t have as much ‘hollering’, as he calls it. so some major rocking came down from that stage, and a high point for me was probably an electrified ‘going to georgia’ which was blazing hot. totally not what i expected out of the night but lots of fun as always.

this week now i’m just looking forward to the arrival of a stopgap measure i took to make up for my xbox’s extended vacation (and the little reward i decided i deserved for getting a promotion), my new nintendo DS. i want to play a video game where i’m an animated japanese lawyer, dangit!