just like spring rain...

Still on the mend from last night's Death Cab / Franz show. I don't really have much energy to blog and I'm kind of shocked that I still have to, you know, do things today. A 4 a.m. bedtime just doesn't agree with me much anymore.....Anyway, the Memorial was the usual Memorial with so-so acoustics but I actually found that after we moved around for a while, there were some decent pockets of sound. And, as much as I love, love, love the Death Cab (and I loved their forest set), I gotta say Franz Ferdinand really does kick their ass live. I've seen both bands three times now but seeing them back-to-back was rather startling.

Speaking of venues, say what you will about the Memorial but it is just far and away a million times better than the Concourse at the SF Design Center which is the venue where Belle & Sebastian played earlier this week. I don't know how many people that place holds - I've heard everything from 3,000 to 8,000 people - but it had all the charm (and acoustical finesse) of seeing a show in an aiport hangar. It was awful with horrible sight lines and if it wasn't for the fact that Belle & Sebastian rocks out pretty well live and also has a strong stage presence, I would have been even more pissed than I already was. Of course, it didn't help that I had some spastic hipster kid standing in front of me, literally having spastic hipster convulsions all over my feet. Ew. Dude, to each his own and all but keep your freaky dance moves to yourself. If you're regularly making body contact with me? So not a good thing.

Anyway, things to do...I really wanted to skate today but it appears that the rain is going to spoil that plan...maybe I really am ready for spring. Well, maybe for an afternoon at least... Then again if I could just spend the afternoon curled up on the couch reading or watching movies, I wouldn't mind a little spring rain so much....