Current mood:	ecstatic
Current music:	Polysics [!!] /Brian Eno/ Secret Machines/ Midwest Product

A cascade of pithy agonists from generally well-constructed wooden hearts.
Ahh, I’ve really been living a charmed life lately. Everything works out just as it should.

First and foremost, I just got back from the Polysics concert with Mike and Todd, and it was surely one of the most amazing/spiritual/sublime/delicious experiences of my life.

This was my first time going to a show at Small’s, and I wasn’t quite sure how to get there, so I ended up calling Jay [Sgt. Politeness from SA] since he lives in Hamtramck. It was probably a little weird since I haven’t talked to him in about a year, but it was cool. Shortly after the call connected however, we stumbled upon it, so I didn’t make for good conversation.

The opening bands were horrific ball-torture, and drove us to look through our phones at stupid pictures we’ve taken over the last few months while sitting on a couch in the back of the venue. The boredom/mediocrity was broken up briefly by some choreographed dances, and watching this drunk 30 something woman act like a complete idiot and thrust her hips to bad music.

Everything was completely made up for by Polysics however. They were the most animated band I’ve ever seen. From the very beginning of the show I knew it was going to be pure ecstasy. They lengthened all of their songs, and played some new ones. They had A RECORDER SOLO at one point.

However, everything pales in comparison to what happened during the encore.

Hayashi, the lead singer/guitarist grabbed me and pulled me to the front of the stage where he proceeded to CLIMB ON MY BACK AND HAVE ME WANDER THROUGH THE CROWD WHILE HE PLAYED GUITAR!!!! AHHHHH!!!! Afterwards he came up to me and shook my hand and gave me his pick. It was beautiful.

Moving backwards, I’ve been having lots of pseudo-adventures.

Nina, Justin, Joey, Evan, Sabrina, Ashleigh, and the two most prolific victims of Hurricane Krunkina [kill me for even making that up] have been enjoyed in large quantities.

I met the boys of 610, who are wonderful folk, and even performed some (possibly highly illegal) trading of controlled substances with them, but it was all in good fun. We also introduced them to rez, played some smash brothers, and listened to long discussions on various martial arts while listening to warped woodstock records.

Justin and I scoped out a new, much more hilarious spot for getting high, a small 4 x 4 x 5 nook at the very top of the flight of stairs to a nearby parking structure. In order to reach it you have to sort of climb/crawl, and it is pretty conspicuous because the stairway opens to a glass wall on one side, but that just makes it that much funnier. Needless to say it is really easy to clambake up there, and the fact that I am now using terminology like “clambake” is a factor I think we should focus and reflect on momentarily.

I went with Sabrina, Erin, the roomies, and Ashleigh to Necto in Ann Arbor on gay night, and had some minor paradigm shifts, though they can mostly be attributed to the large sum of two dollar long-island iced teas I consumed that night.

We met a very typical rich, white, gay, U of M student named Trevor who liked to drunkenly brag to us about the many expensive cars he owned. When we last saw him, he was only half-conscious in the driver’s seat, and having been pretty annoying, we let him know he seemed sober enough to drive home.

I also ended up pole-dancing with some drag queens, and just having a very uncharacteristic night. Not a bad nor good thing, just different. Not sure I’d want to do it again any time soon, but maybe in a few months.

I’ve been seeing a lot more of Evan recently, and having unconventionally good times. Usually hanging out consists of us wandering around having wide-reaching yet sleepily apathetic conversations, looking for fields, or good field substitutes to have pseudo-naps in, or exploring buildings in hopes of some unspoken great discovery.

There are tentative plans in the works to get lost in the woods somewhere, probably north of Detroit since woods are in short supply here.

I did some much needed clothes shopping recently, and I got some really awesome new shoes which are blue and tan, and just amazing. I’ve never really put much stock into shoes (except for heelys of course), but these really deserve to be appreciated.

I also rearranged my room today with the help of the very spatially-aware Ashleigh, and it looks great. Especially adorned with my new Polysics paraphernalia.

We’re working on getting the old bastions of the poetry group back together, and expanding it into a generally-artistic front. I’m very pumped about this. Community paintings, maybe some work in sculpture (?) a lot of nice new poetry and written works, and perhaps some music (?!?)

I’m also getting a hookah soon from the delightful Nina. I’ll be taking requests for tobacco flavors.

Oh how the future is bright.