I had today off and I think I have made a pretty good run at wasting it. Yes, yes I have school stuff to do but I'm not so overwhelmed at the moment that I can't enjoy a rainy day off. I got up this morning and made a pot of coffee then realized that we didn’t have any creamer, so I set about getting some. When I walked outside I found that it was very cold and very rainy, I decided at that moment that no schoolwork was going to get done and I rearranged my plans for the day while I walked to the grocery store. I had been toying with the idea of heading out to Virginia for the sole purpose of visiting my favorite record store so I made that my primary goal for the day. It's about a 45-minute train ride each way but it's definitely worth it. This place is incredible, most used record shops I find usually just have a bunch of mediocre stuff in awful condition, but not Orpheus. These guys really know their stuff, they have a ton of really great older stuff, all in superb condition, and they have a very notable selection of newer vinyl, some of it fairly hard to find. It's always good to go out there, this time I ended up picking up two things that I had been meaning to grab for a while, Okkervil River's "Black Sheep Boy Appendix" and Beirut's "Gulag Orkestar". I didn't get home until about 4 and I've been straightening up the apartment a bit since then. All in all a pretty good day so far.
This past weekend Chandi and I were back in Charleston for John and Masie's wedding, awesome time. The only down side to weekends like that is that you (and it may just be me?) are either drunk or hung over constantly for three days. Getting back into the swing of things this week has been slow going. It was definitely worth it though. There was a bachelor party on Friday night when we got there out on Shem Creek, it was a real bro-down. The rehearsal was Saturday with the rehearsal party out on Gold Bug Island, which was good because it's big (that's what she said) and really everyone was invited. I got to catch up with a bunch of people. And drink about a gallon of Maker's Mark. The wedding was Sunday. It was gorgeous. There was a lot more Maker's Mark to be had.
I wish that I had more eloquent things to say about the wedding other than, "I got drunk, it was cool". It really was incredible and I'm so happy for John and Masie that I could just freak out. They are amazing for each other and amazing to the people around them. *sniff *sniff*.
I was talking to Masie after the wedding and asked her if she was going to change her name and she said that she was hyphenating it to Barefoot-Judson. Then she pointed out that from now on that would make her name Mrs. BJ. Filthy. I miss that girl.
I also got to spend an exceptional amount of time with Mike Paolone as we were staying with him all weekend. We took the train from DC into Columbia on Thursday and crashed at his place, then went down to Charleston with him on Friday in time for the bachelor party. Monday we went back to Columbia and kicked it with him until it was time to catch the train back to DC. That train ride is one that I would not recommend to anyone. I'm just saying. I would recommend, however, spending more time with Mike Paolone. That dude rules. He swears that he is going to have a page up for his solo project, Hawks of War, sometime this week. Please look out for that, he played me some stuff and it is fucking incredible.
It was great to see everyone though I really felt shitty leaving Charleston, I think because I really don’t know when I will be able to get back down there. Leaving this time had a more definite sense of separation from the people there that I really care about. I don’t know, I feel like I'm getting back there less and less and really falling away from the happenings of my friends. Maybe I just need to do better with keeping in touch with people, I often think that that's the problem. I am terrible with writing/calling people back and then I complain that I never talk to anyone and feel detached from my friends. What's that about? I need to work on that.
That's about it for me at the moment.
Oh, I think that the wedding festivities can be fairly appropriately summed up with a single picture:
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