So, what's new? I got my tires back after 19 carless days. The whole ordeal cost me $500 and a lot of frustration. But since I was taking trains everywhere I got to read two books, which is something I haven't done in a long time. Last Friday my debit card information was stolen. My bank wouldn't give me a lot of details - but apparently someone wielded a false card that had my name, card number, and expiration date on it. When prompted for ID they were unable to furnish it, which prompted the merchant to call whomever you call when that sort of thing happens. Bitchin'. I didn't lose any money, but I didn't have access to my checking account via debit-type transactions for a week, which was mildly annoying (four times I pulled out my temporary atm-only card to pay for something only to remember that it wasn't a true debit card). The timing for all of those shenanigans was awful, to say the least. But someday I'll look back at it humorously.
I spend a lot of time in Newark now, which is certainly interesting.
I did some new music purchasing for the first time in awhile. New Modest Mouse (#1 on Billboard Top 200 last week), new Arcade Fire (#2 on Billboard Top 200 the week before), and the new Ergs!. Marissa also bought the new Unlovables on vinyl... which means it gets housed at my house for the time being - which is a nice lil' bonus.
Two full months left and my time in Wayne will have come to an end. I won't be far, but I'm pretty darn ok with it.
We recorded an album and are now officially called The Palisades, for better or worse. I preferred Tape and Wire, but was outvoted. They preferred Beat Union, but I was militant in my hatred for it. Aside from us being in a band that sounds not quite masculine, I think we did ok.
Now we just need to settle on song titles... tracklisting.. artowrk.. and an album name. I'm sure we'll be all set in no time...
This is a photo of blue lights outside of an indian restaurant in Jersey City that I took with Marissa's swell new camera:
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