bethb's Diaryland Diary

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The concept of a graceful exit

I saw...probably one of my top three? four? favorite bands of all time ever play friday. It was good. Great? Maybe? Mostly it was a lot of memories even tho they just (just) put out a new record that I like better than the last two records they released about a decade ago combined.
I woke up saturday alone and happy and smiling and it was a nice feeling. the smiling and the sunlight and the sky and I feel like i'm returning to normal except for this cold which has a death grip on my lungs.
I like watching bands like superchunk continue...it was nice because 3/4 of them seemed really...just...present. Sometimes it doesn't seem like that when bands reunite to run through old fan favorites. Slint doing spiderland? was it cool to see? yes. Did they maybe seem like they'd rather be somewhere else? also yes.
i can't speak for cap'n jazz because i was....hammered. kinda badly. Unrest- who knows. It seemed like MR was into it. I hope he was and they were because I (you, everyone) would be the shittiest fan ever forcing musicians out of retirement to play you your favorite song. You might as well be yelling DANCE MONKEY DANCE.
The concept of a graceful exit is hard and it's a concept i've been thinking about a lot lately. How long do you continue before you feel you've overstayed your welcome? How long do you go before achieving or not achieving some self-set measure of success before you give up your current endeavor/job/city/love ?

8:53 p.m. - 2010-09-20

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