i heart coney island!

wow, what a good time! coney island was great fun and the weather was beautiful. we saw the circus sideshow, went on the cyclone, ate a nathan's hot dog or two, walked on the beach, played a few games...everything you're supposed to do when you go to coney island. i loved it! pics of our shenanigans will be posted later on. they're on my boyfriend's laptop and he's sleeping i don't feel like dealing with it right now. my only real peeve of the day is that i lost my favorite sunglasses on the cyclone. they flew off my shirt where they were tucked and right into chris' eye. boooooo! :(

the show rawked; good, mellow-ish crowd for the most part. and by mellow-ish, i mean there was no crazy mosh pit, just jumping and dancing. THANK GOODNESS. my 32-year old ass can't take that crap anymore. i was pretty close to the stage, so i was happy. the drunk assholes surfaced for the stripes, as they always do these days, but oh well. there was this one big huge douchebag (he was kind of like the blonde mean guy from "karate kid," we decided) that kept elbowing everyone and flailing around like a moron practically burning everyone's eyes out with his cigarette, totally not giving a shit that everyone in his general vicinity wanted him dead by the end of the night. but meh.

i really dug brendan benson. a LOT. and the shins were pretty good, too. chris likes them a whole lot, so he was pleased. and the white stripes, of course, were totally intense and amazing, as they always are. great energy, great set list, great band. i think they may just be the best live band of our day. really. highlights for me were "black math," "hardest button to button," "the union forever," "i'm lonely (but i ain't that lonely yet)," "little ghost," "boll weevil." and more. this was my 4th stripes show, and it was a tad less frenetic than some of the shows i've seen (radio city, union square, atlanta). i did get kinda looped by the time jack and meg hit the stage...i was jacked up on dayquil and cold tablets all day, and then the 2 shitty beers i drank and the big swig of rum out of some dude's flask got me feelin' all toasty. i like flasks.


oooh, oooh, and there were a coupla strokes in attendance! i didn't see 'em, though.

so, i have this MASSIVE INSANE headcold-flu thing, and today i feel like total poop. ick. i hardly was even able to sleep last night. but that's okay. i'm watching "repo man" on the telly and drinkin' coffee, gertie's hangin' out with me (see below for photo taken just moments ago!), and it's a chilly, cloudy, rainy sunday morning. very nice indeed. plenty of time for nappin' all day. too bad i can't breathe.