Current mood:	busy
Current music:	That techno remix of the Hamsterdance song

It lives! Well, sort of.
I got bored looking at the same new icon post when I hit 'recent entries,' so here you go.

Spring is creeping into the air, which at one time meant it was time to think about unearthing the shorts, putting away the flannel pajamas, and gearing up for summer concerts. I'm finding that as I get older, and the concert ticket industry reaches dystopian levels of monopolization, it's just not worth it to take in the shows. For example, this past weekend I got myself psyched up to buy tickets for the NIN|JA tour--a summer explosion of nine inch nails touring with a rejuvenated Jane's Addiction. The closest (so far) that they were getting here was out at the Great Woods/Tweeter/Comcast/Whateverthefuck Center, and I'm always up for sitting on the lawn seeing a good show. As I do, I forgot about the show until Sunday, and headed over to LiveNation to see just how gouged I'd get. Whatever it was, I thought, it won't be that bad. Lawn seats were 18 bucks. Sweet, I can totally do that. I really don't need to be right on top of the band (the furthest seats under the roof were in the high 30s). Plus, the times that stage effects are used, they're better seen from a distance anyway, due to them being enormous. So I pick two lawns, input the cod sEcreT as I see it, and then see this:

Ticket: $18
Combined fees (yep, there's two of them) per ticket: $16

I tried. I tried for upwards of a half hour to justify to myself, making this purchase. And in the end, I couldn't. Two tickets to a show would cost me nearly four tickets to the same show. After all of it, I realized that for about 2/3 less of the total ticket price, I'll be able to buy the inevitable DVD release and watch it on a 50" TV in surround sound. But it sucks, having to turn down one of your favorite bands due to garbage ticket gouging.

In an unrelated story, I got new glasses last week. They're cyborg glasses--they turn into sunglasses when they get sunlight on them. bunnyroo is freaked out by this. I think that's adorably hilarious. The cyborg thing is also good b/c I'm out of contacts, but light on money these days, so now I'll automatically have sunglasses when I go outside.

For those interested, there's been no job progress yet. I did a lot of reflection this past week and weekend on my mental blocks regarding certain industries, and with no actual proof that I can't do something, I think it may be time to start a really different career path.

Actually got a good deal accomplished today. I still need to do my writeup of the Chelsea Cask Fest (seeing as I'm already two weeks home from it). I'm pretty much shored up with my Iron Chef offerings for this weekend. Got some more to do with my ongoing cassettes-to-mp3 project--mebbe I'll do some of that as a reward for my productivity today.