Saw (hed)p.e. last night at the House of Blues in Chicago. They're a pretty good band with a rap-metal vibe that doesn't suck, and even though they seem to have lost one of their guitarists they keep it pretty heavy. Their dj looks like he's been living on the street for a while. The music is good and i like most of what the frontman Jahred is saying, but he did a pretty good job of alienating gays and Christians throughout the show. Enough with the tough-man talk, get on with the music.
Strangest thing was, after the show we were hanging out in the Foundation Room, a kind of vip room at the HOB with Matt, Greg, Sean and his girlfriend of nine months Joanna. As we're winding things up Joanna gets up and leaves in a friendly way, and then sean starts talking about how she didn't include in him in their new year's eve plans. I asked him, "wait a minute. did you just end it with her right now?" He said yes and at my request of Are You Serious, he explained that not only did she not include him in her nye plans - she said he was welcome to come along, but that wasn't cool with him - that after nine months, she still didn't call him her boyfriend, and didn't want him calling her his girlfriend. So, i guess the nye thing was the proverbial straw on the camel, but I've never seen a relationship end so abrubtly and almost unnoticeably.
So, that was the strangest part of the night.
The saddest part of the night was afterwards when I removed the last remaining pieces of gear from matt's house. Ah, how things are changing.