Good ol' fashioned day off

Yom Kippur today, so the office is closed, and there is no rehearsal. I'm not jewish, and am not involved with a jewish family at the moment, so what this means is an actual DAY OFF. No real plans of any kind, other than personal bidness (you know, gym, laundry, groceries, that kind of thing). This is an exceptionally rare thing for me, and i kind of like it. On weekends, i'm usually booked with friends or shows, but there's none of that today: i'm just chillin' on my own.

The weekend was a busy one, a good one. Yo la tengo on friday night, with gena (who is pretty awesome, but i need to figure out just what is going on there). YLT was great, of course, but i have to say they weren't at their best. Ira didn't seem as happy to be there as he has in the past; there was a really heavy reliance on the 'slow jam that builds to an orgasmic frenzy,' including two right in a row at one point, 'blue line swinger' from 'electr-o-pura' (i don't know - i think that might be the wrong tune: where can we find setlists?) followed by 'i heard you looking' from 'painful.' Still, very good show: and YLT on a merely good night is better than most bands at their best.

Long rehearsal saturday - DAMN is it good to have christopher back in the fold. Made such a huge difference having him with us. Then out for drinks with (part of) the company for meg's birthday; home for a bit; back into town to see 'baby wants candy' with aaron and shannon - improv musical troupe from chicago: SO good - got a title from the audience, and proceeded to perform an hour-long musical they made up on the spot as they went along. Man, chicago is where it's at when it comes to improv. These guys supposedly will be back some time in november. Who wants to go with me?

Whoops, that may be un-possible. I actually got a call while writing this entry that i've been offered a 'christmas carol' that would take me out of town for most of november and december. I just have to look at the script (and my finances) to see if it's a gig i want. But let me tell you, folks, it probably is.

Off to the wonderful world of the laundromat!