Three day weekend! Since I had Monday off for President's Day, I decided to truly pay homage to our founding fathers; I put on a powdered wig, fired a cannon at British people, and traded my TV for a plug of tobacco. It wasn't exactly a profitable day, but it was educational.
It's been colder than the Abominable Snowman's ice box here in Austin lately. I can say this with great confidence because, on Saturday, I spent 4 hours at an outdoor concert. From 10 PM to 2 AM, I rocked it with Nada Surf at Emo's. Well, maybe I didn't rock it. If you're ever somewhere and all it'd take for you to leave is an offer of hot chocolate and a space heater, you're probably not rocking. It looked like I was rocking, though, because I had to shimmy to stay warm. And maybe people thought I was singing along to the songs, when actually I was begging the club owners to send out a St. Bernard with a barrel of brandy to revive me. In actuality, I was just trying to stay alive. I'd seen "Alive"; I knew what happened to the first person to die in a frigid, hopeless situation like that. No one in a Death Cab for Cutie shirt is eating my corpse.
When the show was done, things got worse. The police had shut down the highways in town because it was icy. I would've cursed them mightily had I not been swerving all over the road, screaming like a baby who needs Teletubbies. By the time we got home, it was 3 AM. My butt was literally frozen off. I had to put it in the microwave and dethaw it like a little game hen. Luckily, the band put on a great show. They really had no choice. We had paid a bunch of money to stand out in the frigid cold, and if we weren't satisfied, concert law dictates the right for us to tear up the tour bus and sell its contents on eBay. So, way to go Nada Surf, maybe if you'd sucked it up harder, I could've left before icicles formed in the ventricles of my heart. This is the last time I attend a concert without a portable igloo.
Posted by Cody at February 21, 2006 7:00 PM