Heavy

Did some errand stuff yesterday morning and afternoon. Not a whole lot else going on for most of the day. I wasn't feeling as tired/weak as I was Friday, but I did feel it a little bit. Went out to the Melvins show last night. I wouldn't have decided to go on my own since I'm really not a big fan, but Mary Beth wanted to go as she'd never seen 'em live. Ended up being glad I went. First off, the opening band Spotlights was great. They're like a shoegazey sludge metal. Two people, guitar and bass with drum machine, very fuzzed out, both sang with male/female vocals, floaty over the rest of the heaviness. I picked up their cd Seismic after the show as well as a shirt, now they only had medium and xxl left so I let the bass player talk me into a medium since they run pretty big (it does fit like a smallish large, let's just hope it doesn't shrink any...and maybe one day I'll lose some weight again as I'm really not wearing larges so well anymore anyway). Melvins were enjoyable to see too. I mean, I still feel about the same as I always have towards their music, with almost all their songs there's a good mix of things I like and things I don't like about it. So I neither like nor dislike them. But it was a nice experience live, I enjoyed it more than the other time I saw 'em which was many years ago. Dale Crover is an incredible drummer. When a band's trying to be heavy, there's almost nothing worse than having a drummer lightly tapping in the background, and he hits the fucking drums hard as needed (and also his playing style is otherwise pretty great). For the last few songs, the members of Spotlights joined them on stage so it was a two guitar two bass assault that was pretty awesome. Josh was there and we talked with him a bit afterwards. He's now officially the cto of a startup. Pretty big news. We got in a little late (though the show wasn't super-late for a show) and my throat was feeling not good by the end of the night in the club. I took some more nyquil and slept though not as long. When I did wake up I was wanting to hack stuff up a bunch. Maybe that's a good sign.