rileystclair

i have got to start wearing earplugs to shows. that's just how it's gonna be.

i went to see indian jewelry play at some random hipster bar in chinatown and i think i lost about half the frequencies of my hearing range. it was a good show, but between the blaring sound in a tiny room and the incessant blinking of the strobe light they had onstage, concentrating on the music was challenging at best.

oh yeah, not going on until like 12:30 didn't help either. we got there at 10 and of course nothing was happening so we had a lot of time to kill. apparently i didn't get the memo that stupid hats are really fucking cool right now. my boyfriend and i started counting said stupid hats in attendance and once we got to about six, he bet (the prize being that the loser has to buy the winner a drink on some as-yet unascertained future occcasion) that there would be exactly twelve silly hate sightings total for the night. i one-upped him, never underestimating the absurdity of eastsiders and guessed 13-15. we decided that if more than 15 hats were present, we both lost.

we spotted 15 hats, but after determining that clearly the random collapsible paper hat worn by one of the band members did not count, as it was a "costume", we were still split as to whether the two dudes with hats hanging out of their back pockets should be counted or not.


update: so someone should buy me something from the decembrists charity ebay auction. like this awesome carson ellis geisha drawing