On Monday I felt like getting a beer so I met Ryan C for 2 after work. Then I went and purchased some groceries. Then I went home and made dinner and did dishes and read a newspaper. And I wore a long jacket and a scarf that day as well. I really felt like a grown up mover and shaker.

Last night I met up with Carolyn and her friend Rebecca. We ate food then saw a rock show. This thing called CMJ is going on. Which means there are around one thousand musical shows happening in one week. Lots of people who do boring jobs in the offices of big record labels get to wear VIP laminates and get into shows for free and talk to other music industry people and hardly pay attention to the bands playing. Anyhow, we watched this group Shearwater which apparently has something to do with Yo La Tengo. They took a lot of chances and had a lot of different instruments. Then Ponytail came on. I’d seen them before I think. I liked their show. They were young. Seemed to have some kind of tribal instinct. Their songs are pretty insane and the audience responded well. But I had to wonder what their practices are like considering that no one is there to validate them. It seems like a lonely thing to be creating this totally weird stuff and having no idea how it will be received. Towards the end the lead singer was totally stoked and said “this is awesome” then wiped her eyes. I’m not sure if it was sweat or tears or both. Then some other dancey rock band played but I didn’t watch them. Then Jens Lekman came on as a singing DJ. He sang a song and DJ’d about 4-5 dance tracks, and then I left.

Then today I wore glasses.