Valentine's Day (*shudder*) was actully cool this year. A holiday I normally hate was spent doing things I love with an awesome girl. We went to our favorite Italian restaurant, exchanged gifts (in my hatred of standard greeting cards, I made her a record jacket, complete with cover art, a tracklisting, and the dust sleeve was where I wrote the smarmy stuff that would otherwise go into a card). Then we saw the awesome Interpol//Blonde Redhead show from the balcony. and went ot he afterparty where we saw The Lovemakers and later danced to a really shitty soundsystem. Then we went back to my house and slept in. See, that abysmal holiday can actually be fun if you do non-lame lovey-dovey crap with someone who also wants to do non-lame lovey-dovey crap.
poetik:
I totally agree. This was the first Valetine's day I actually enjoyed and it was te best I've ever had. And didn't focus on the commercial stuff, I just focused on having a good time, and I did! 
longblackbangs:
Yes! Yes! Yes! The Prids show was my plan for the evening. My friend has been also raving about Crosstide since he last saw them in Chico. He said they were similar to the Stills. So hopefully his comparisons are correct.