2004-03-08 | 1:35 p.m.
we came, we played, we drifted away

This was a good weekend.

There was big shopping at the Tanger Outlet Mall out in Riverhead. Very good big shopping. I got many things, including these hot shoes, except in navy with an orange swish. I am in love. I hate shopping, but I love buying, because I will not buy unless I think the product is going to change my life for the better. These will. They already have. I am so happy in them and with them. They are cozy and also make me extra cute.

So yes, there was shopping and fun times there. We got home and dragged all of our amazing purchases up the stairs and ran back out for one post-haul drink. Four hours and five beers later, I left. Which isn't quite as bad as it could be, as I am currently drinking bottled beer (saves 4 oz. per) but it is bad enough. I was having fun, though. And I talked to 8-10 people I didn't live with, a couple for more than two minutes even, so it was a successful step towards my reintegration into society. Of course, now I have to work from home for the next three days nonstop, so that means 10 uninterrupted hours of solitude a day. At least I have my memories. And my DVR recording of "Subterranean UK." So much goodness there. Why not every week, eh?

Sunday I went to a comedy thing at Piano's. Generally, I do not like to go to comedy things because I do not like to be in a room of people who go to comedy things. While waiting for a billion hours (in a crowded place with people needing to get by and other people seemingly trying out their own material so that everyone could hear) just to get into this comedy thing, it was all too clear why I generally stay away. But as soon as we got inside, there was happy goodness all around. Todd Barry was the host and he was very funny. Then Ron Lynch was up (you might know him as Mr. Lynch on Home Movies. Also very funny. Then Brendon Small, Mr. Home Movies, (who may also like The Darkness) who was very excellent as Captain Mustache and who made me cry a little with laughing when he was singing a song about Valentine's Day. Yes. And then the lovely and talented Demetri Martin, also very funny and then the stah, Eugene Mirman who was recording a comedy CD. He was wonderfully great. I'd never seen him before, or any of those people, I think. So yes, It was so funny and fun. I don't even know what else to say about it. Can I really explain what was funny, like how Eugene Mirman was talking about those vague ads for pork and milk and that my face hurt from laughing? Or when he was explaining his idea that pretending to be followed is a great way to make new friends? You know, if you go into a bar and say, "Talk to me/ Kiss me/ Give me your scarf (?)/ pretend you love me, etc., I'm being followed"? And how love can blossom from that? That was pretty funny too. Yeah. So this is why reviews of comedy shows are dumb. See?

The point is that I went out a lot this weekend and it was fun. So maybe I will go out more.

While I was at Piano's, a sad thing happened. I saw a sign and it opened up my eyes to the fact that Dear Leader had played on that very stage the night before, yet I was not there. UGH! Horrible. I am so disappointed to have missed it. I don't know how I overlooked that they were coming, but I am a little sick about it. I have been so very in love with their album these past couple of weeks. And speaking of being in love with albums, I am very in love with the Cooper Temple Clause record. Which, I hear, is nothing compared to their first album (import only). I will have to get that one now, I suppose.

I am listening to whole albums. And talking to people. You hear it first. It's getting better, man. I might be not totally crazy anymore.

Tomorrow I will tell you about my craziness. Exciting. I know it.

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