Night at Jacques's

Mary Beth and I went for a walk to the park yesterday afternoon. The weather was comparatively nice (it was just a little on the cold side but no rain for the first time in forever). We went over to Jacques's to hang out and do a Christmas exchange thing. I got a few cds: Demdike Stare: Tryptych, Sparks: No. 1 in Heaven, and Ministry: Twitch (the last two are things I have not had a good history with, but we'll see after I give 'em a shot!, Jacques admitted they were a gamble). We sat around with the tv playing Old Grey Whistle Test and talking and all (the nadir was sitting through that fucking performance of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"...*shudder*). We went to Huey's for a bit of a nostalgic trip. At one point Tony walked by and said hey and "the gang's back together" or something like that, I think he's manager now. It was nice to see him. He seemed pleased to see us too. We finished the night listening to some Paul Stanley stage banter. I don't know if it was that we were approaching tired by this point, but I came up with a funny bit. Since Kiss is starting or about to start their "final tour," Paul just going ahead and burning bridges and insulting all the cities they're in. It started with San Antonio, talking about how terrible their hot sauce is and how much better the hot sauce they brought from New York City is. That's pretty much it, going into details with insults of their hot sauce. Then I did Memphis. First, insulting Elvis and how Paul himself is the real King of Rock'n'roll. Then I went into a thing about mistaking the Fedex Forum as the UPS Forum and talking about how much he loves sending packages through UPS as well as insulting Fedex's ability to deliver packages. Anyhow, fun stuff, we were cracking up a bit. What wasn't fun was my fucking car alarm going off twice between 3 and 4 am this morning. Both times I had to toss on my coat and floppers, otherwise pretty much rushing out in my underwear. The second time I disconnected the battery 'cuz I figured a pattern might be forming. I'm guessing it has something to do with the leaking, maybe some water in the door and maybe it froze or something or somehow fucked with the sensor. Anyway, I guess now that's a thing.