the longest day of the year

so i was up all night sunday night after waking up at 11pm doing not much of anything...i thought i had court at 9am, but upon looking at the ticket again i saw that it wasn't 'til 1:30pm...so i went out borrowing my mom's car and got my car towed and over to the place that [allegedly] fucked it up...this was early in the morning so i had several hours before court...did an errand or two for my mom, randomly drove around some...around 11am or so i went to IHOP and ate while reading from my graphics book...had just a little more time to kill so i went to Lastchance where i walked away w/:
Cat Power: You Are Free
Low: "Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me" single
i was my usual 45 min or so early for court (usual...pretty fucking pathetic that i can say that) and was 3rd in line, minutes after my arrival the line had already grown tremendously...to my surprise, everything was dismissed...i knew the tail light would be, but the prohibited turn thing was as well...i didn't even have to pay court cost or anything...quite nice...after that i still had time before my car was ready...i started off by going to Legba:
Portastatic: Looking for Leonard
Yo La Tengo: Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo
drove around some more, then i went by Jacques' and he was home so i sat around over there waiting for my car...they finally called me back a couple hours after it was "supposed" to be ready...Jacques took me to get it...they claimed it had nothing to do w/ the week before...i argued a little, but what could i do? car mechanics are evil fucks who can get away w/ murder...i HATE them all...i especially hate the fuckers who "fixed" my car...i hope someone crashes a plane into the place while they're all there working...(it would be extra nice 'cuz it's right next to Neil's and i'm sure the plane would have to take that out as well...) blah...so i went back over to Jacques' and more sitting around went on...Amber came home...uh, around frickin' 7 we went to the Hit-One for the Low show...oh, and before we left i finally got that
Talking Heads: San Fran 1978
bootleg that Jacques had gotten two of many months ago and said he'd give me the extra...

of course, we were WAY early...we were there for the sound check and all that...we could tell that the opening act Haley Bonar was good from her sound check (not to mention the fact that she was giving me quite the bonar) they had set up the merch table so i bought:
two Low shirts (well, one Low shirt proper and one of these (designed by Hollis (= Mimi + Alan))
a Low magnetic poetry kit
Haley Bonar's newest cd: . . . The Size of Planets
i ended up sort-of being on the guest list...Alan had put Jacques on (+2) as he was making it out before the show...so i was half of the +2...woo! a few hours after we arrived, Brad, Keith, and Kerry showed up...as you may notice, by the time the show started i had been up for about 24 hours...so the majority of the night was spent in wonderful sleep-deprived humor...at one point, there was discussion of making a video w/ a cat taking a dump in slow motion then going in reverse so the turd went back up its butt then Jacques said something about the video going back and forth (in and out) and "that's what i call a double dribble!" and i almost died laughing...finally the show happened...Haley Bonar was very good...then Low played...they played all of Trust (minus "Time Is the Diamond" and "The Lamb"...maybe "Shots & Ladders" can't quite remember...) plus "Sunflower," "Over the Ocean," and "Lordy"...the version of the latter was exceptionally good...Jacques said it was the least good Low show he's seen, but it was the first time i'd heard the Trust stuff live so that was cool...afterwards Jacques and i were gonna go get something to eat...we drove around but couldn't think of anything other than IHOP so we gave up...i was hoping to have gotten my car home, but i wasn't able so i just drove my mom's car...mine's still over at Jacques'...

today, even though i had around 10 or 11 hours of sleep, i had been awake for about 28 so i had a bunch of trouble waking up for class...i was only about 20 min late but i got there just as it was ending...a short review session for the exam next class...oh well...i think i'll have my mom take me to get my car in a little bit...then i work...woo...hoo...