viva hate!

Last Monday, a couple friends and I went to see Morrissey at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. F lives in Ann Arbor as it is, so we met up at his house. The show was fairly good, but not as good as when I saw him in 1997 after Maladjusted came out. This time, since I’ve fallen out of touch with any new Morrissey albums since Maladjusted, I didn’t recognize a lot songs. It was still fun to hear the hits he did play, though, and the old Smiths songs. One complaint I had was that the drums seemed to be really overpowering a lot of the other players and Morrissey’s singing on the more rock-type songs. I’m not sure if that’s due to the acoustics of the theatre or the drum mics, but they tended to be really bassy and thud-y.

In Ann Arbor, we walked around and had dinner at a food co-op. And it kind of made me want to live in Ann Arbor. I did live there as a student, but it’d be a great place to live as a homeowner and professional, I gather. I love that everything is walkable (for the most part), though it could get rough in the winters. And there’s just so much good stuff going on all the time. I used to LOVE living in Ann Arbor in the summers, when campus was kind of empty and I had an easy job at the Space Physics Research Lab. Ahh, memories.

Anyway… Last night the Low Hello played a pretty successful show at Mac’s Bar in Lansing. After some initial song tuning difficulties (my tuner was telling me my G string was in tune, but for some reason, it was tuned like a half step lower than G. So we ended up playing the entirety of I Got Carpet that way, but no one seemed to care. Once again, the crowd was great and appreciative and seemed to enjoy themselves), everything went nicely. We actually made a little money this time, too, which is nice to offset the cost of giving away free CDs.

Today I pretty much chilled. We have these parts for the dryer that got mailed to us (so that the repair guy can just use them when he comes), and I attempted to see if I could just do the work myself and save the trouble and cost of having him come out. Turns out the job is a bit more than I envisioned and would involve taking too many things apart to make it worth our while.

Oh, has anyone been watching Human Giant on MTV? I have and have been really really liking it. Damn that’s some good sketch comedy. And it’s nice to see a brown bearded man be so awesome on TV.