Advanced Citizenship

Well, everyone, I’m a sad girl today still mourning the breakup of my favorite band evah, Live.  Turns out that evidently, Ed K. got quite into being a bad-ass rock star, and pulled a Behind-the-Music-esque move on his bandmates.  According to them, anyways.  Who knows, who cares?  All I know is, I can’t rock out at the shows any more!  *Sniff*

Luckily, AJN and I went to what turned out to be our last show this year in Boston.  It is only right and fitting that we were together, jumping around like mad things.  (I’m especially pleased that show gave me pretty much the best, most-rocking-est rendition of “I Alone” I’d heard since the days of shows at Old 930.)  Over the years AJN went to many a Live show together.  When we were young and foolish, we even traveled to out-of-town shows during that Throwing Copper tour where Weezer was the supporting act.  The traveling highlight has to be the night when SR “accidentally” set off the alarm on one of the tour buses.  As for AJN and myself, one of our favorite rock show binges of the 90s was a Live binge:  Old 930, Franklin Square (skiving off work at lunch time), and Old 930 again inside of 24 hours.

Anyway.  It took me years to deal with the demise of TMJ, and now this?!  (Side note:  Once, I came into the kitchen wearing my “…Finally” t-shirt.  BB said, “You like Too Much Joy?  Wow.  That changes how I see you as a person.”  Luckily, he meant that in a good way.)  Oh well, thank goodness for the back catalog…it’ll always be there when I need to bang my head.  Indeed, it was “Game Seven every single night.” Auf Wiederhören, Live.  I’ll miss you.

Live, HoB Boston, March '09

• Lyric of the day: “the perception that divides you from him is a lie” (just for you, MJA)
• Flashback of the day: Pushing up the glasses of MD, JDM (not that one, the other one), TH, DJG.  A strange, and strangely intimate,  habit.
• As I write this, what’s playing? Chevelle’s “Letter from a Thief,” off Sci-Fi Crimes.
• Photo of the day:

This Awesomely Bad Paint Job Apparently Required to Deliver Capitol Christmas Tree