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np: "november" - azure ray
i picked up the Saddle Creek 50 comp the other day, and so far i'm enjoying it. i mostly wanted to check out the unreleased tracks by Cursive and Desaparecidos, but there's a lot of other good stuff i'm finding. Azure Ray has been the most enjoyable new band to me, i'm definately up on hearing more from them. a friend from Atlanta has been talking them up now and then, but i think it's more from having met one of the girls before. as for the unreleased stuff, i'm liking the hell out of "Take Me to the Hospital" by The Faint and "Popn' Off at the F" by Desaparecidos, the latter of which features some interesting clips from a reported talking about the beauty of a nuclear explosion.
this weekend was quite interesting, at least last night was. i got a call from a friend at about 10 saying that a mutual friend was coming out from Cincy and i was to meet them out. we went to a couple favorite Wicker Park spots and i had a great time. it was just one of those nights where everyone seemed super-friendly and out to have a good time. yeah, it helped that i met one of the most engaging girls i've met in a long time. she was out celebrating the completion of a dance program she helped put on at the Atheneum here in Chicago. we talked about our work and of course, music. she's quite the Radiohead fanatic and one of the few people that still genuinely loves Pablo Honey. anyway, i wasn't really trying to hit on her or anything, just enjoying the conversation. but she gave me her number hoping she wasn't being too forward. not at all. if nothing else comes out of it, she's an amazing person to spend an hour or two just talking with.