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not a prodigy. just woefully average

good thing about this evening:
i had a really pleasent conversation with travis about a quite sweet article about him (and two great pictures) in the citypaper this week; and those who read the dc city paper will know that that's an uncommon occurance. the article wasn't spiteful or agenda ridden, it was kind of endearing actually.
like, here's this great musician guy, played in a big band, big band breaks up, guy releases solo effort, band-making-blog-whose-fest-i-was-at-last-weekend sticks it with a 0.0 and the people leave him. in droves. people have mentioned how rooms would clear, which is upsetting because travis really, is a swell guy. and clearly in love with music and performing.
which, actually, i can't believe i kept talking about the pitchfork fest (to be fair, he did bring up mission of burma) in front of him after what they're responsible for, but you know that adage "that what does not kill us makes us stronger"? i bet that's probably tripple strength for travis....
anyhow, we're talking about shellac playing (oh, yeah, b0b west0n called amanda and said shellac wanted to play "in the park"...he called fort ren0 "the park" isn't that cute? i've restrained from talking about it because i didn't want to jinx it and i didn't want people googleing it and finding it here, but let's just say, to make beth b. literally crap her pants, there are three bands, no four i guess that could do it.
shellac. drive like jehu. the modern lovers. the pixies.
anyhooooo, it's looking like we can't do it "at the park" because the park rangers are being...um....unhelpful to say the least. they'd want an earlier starting time and to have to pay this one particularly irksome ranger time and a half for 5.5 hours and then to pay for one or two park police officers to watch the show which if you know, is ludacris because "the park" has substantially no funding....anyway, i mentioned how i lost my crap because i love shellac and mentioned a letter i received from b0b back in 1994 which i still have and travis looks at me and says "how old were you in 1994 to have written a letter to b0b west0n?" and i said "uh....21" and he says "you're......you're my age? 33? i thought you were like 11 when you started booking this thing (meaning f0rt reno) i thought you were like some child prodigy or something". and i said no. i'm just woefully average....
which brings me to....
no, i still don't even want to talk about it.
i'm just going to be way depressed for awhile. let's just leave it that i'm pretty sure i'm going to die alone and sadie will eat my face to survive. and there will be no more mentioning of the kc here.

10:45 p.m. - 2006-08-07

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