Like Mercury

The Cartel Cedars show on Friday night was great. The band surprised me by not opening with "Fleets" (and further confounded me by not playing it at all!) and then punched through a set of mostly new material, which tended to bring the RAWK and cut down on the droney stuff. Different and impressive. The venue was over halfway full and most of those in attendance had their eyes on the stage. Strangely, everyone up front was standing like five feet from the stage, so I went right up there and started snapping away, thinking my unobstructed views would make up for the poor lighting. Ummm...not so much. But I did get a few decent shots (which look much more decent on my Mac at home, stupid PC video card). The band gave shout outs to me, bluestate and DCist right before they were done, so respect to them. See all my photos of Cedars at the Black Cat over at Flickr.

After they were done, it was time to get to the TomCat (+ Charles! *hangs head in shame*) Blogger Xmas party before I became the only blogger in the metro area not to attend. There are recaps and ruminations on that all over the place, so seek and ye shall find.

Saturday I came to the realization that my favorite basketball team really, really sucks this year and that signing Brian Scalabrine as a free agent this summer was an unmitigated disaster. Oh, and I did some Xmas shopping.

Last night I started on my Top 10 albums of the year and all that list crap, which might be posted tomorrow, depending on how bad my favorite basketball team loses tonight and the ratio of booze I have to ingest to make me feel better about it. Until then...

Oh, almost forgot. I started watching the new Queens of the Stone Age DVD over the weekend and it is shit hot. It almost melted my TV while I was watching it. Here is a preview of the DVD for your streaming pleasure. Highly recommended.