Did manage to see Calamine Sunday night. They were awesome. Julie Stepanek really has an amazing voice, even in person, and even when the sound equipment is being temperamental. After that I hung around in the City for a bit, taking random trains, walking random blocks through random snow, just enjoying the place before catching a late train home.
No matter how many times I visit New York City, who if anyone I’m with, or how mundane the purpose of my trip, I can’t ever shake the feeling it gives me. I always feel like I belong there. Not in any social or cultural sense, mind.. it just feels intangibly right for me to be there. For most of my life I’ve lived an hour away from the place, I’ve visited often (nearly weekly on average I’d guess, rarely less than monthly) for various fun and boring reasons nearly half my life, by rights it should be mundane. When everyone else on the train is taking vague interest in a newspaper, talking to one another, using a phone, sleeping, or whatever, I still can’t look anywhere but out the window as I approach, and it feels like putting on the most comfortable, broken-in pair of old shoes imaginable.
I wouldn’t be surprised to live out there someday. It’s insanely expensive of course, but as the dangerous housing bubble here on Long Island is stretched to new levels of insanity every day that becomes less and less of an argument.
Speaking of travel, I had to say goodbye once again to Grey, who is heading back to Canada for a few months. Can’t say I blame her at all, but it does suck to know that it’ll be a long time before I see my best friend again.
A few weeks really isn’t much to go by, but as I see it this year, aided by the last few months of ‘05, is really forcing some major changes. Nothing unwelcome, but lots of thngs I’ve been putting off dealing with for a while. Apologies if I don’t seem as social or available as I usually do (whatever that means,) rather a lot is getting thrown my way these days.
Found via Kate Orman - Here is the transript of Bill O’Reilly being 0wned by David Letterman, who responds to him on the fabricated “Silent Night” and red & green controversies and pretty much calls him out, describing 60% of what he says as “crap.”
I did find it endlessly amusing that O’Reilly attempted to portray how “under attack” traditional and religious holiday greetings were by claiming to have had a nice “Winter Solstice,” given that Winter Solstice is precisely what people like me celebrate traditionally and religiously. I wonder if I can get a sound clip or video of O’Reilly’s special Pagan holiday greeting to use in an electronic card next Winter…