Traffic Breaks My Brain Again
I had another bad migraine this morning before work. Not as bad as yesterday. Yesterday it lasted longer, hurt more, and fucked up my eye sight enough that I was afraid to drive in to the office. Today it just hurt a lot. I was able to drive in to work so all in all today is “better” (though working from home would have been nice). As is usually the case on migraine days, the pain went away once I got out on the road. Is there a reason for that? Concentration? Adrenaline? Placebo? Who the hell knows. Part of me wants to jump behind the wheel anytime the headaches appear, but if it is a placebo that would probably ruin it for me. I don’t know.
The downside of today was the traffic. I thought I might have been a little late to work. I wanted to be on the road by 7:30. I was out by 7:45, I think. I parked in the parking lot at work at 9:45. Two hours. Again. Are you fucking kidding me? It was raining though so I guess that explains it all. I was going to take an hour of personal time to cover being late, but now that I am here I think I am just going to make up the 45 minutes before I leave tonight. Karma, or some shit.
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Tomorrow and Friday are good days for me as far as work is concerned. Tomorrow is a half day and Friday is a full vacation day. Why? Tomorrow night is Belly at the Paradise in Boston! I saw Tanya Donelly play with Throwing Muses in 1989, then as a solo artist just after Belly broke up in… I don’t remember… 1996? I saw her a third time at a one off show she did with Kristin Hersh in Cambridge in… ah… I could go to Flickr and find the exact date… Jen went with me so it was at least 2007… it was October 6, 2007 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge. I want to say it was a benefit for something but I don’t recall exactly.
I never saw Belly though. They were a little too big, I think. A little too Grammy Nominated for me to see at a dinky club in greater Boston. They were also only together for a short time so the window closed quickly. I’m really looking forward to this. I enjoyed the hell out of their second record when it came out and the point of this tour is to celebrate the second record’s 30th anniversary by playing the whole thing. There were some really great B-sides from that period as well. I’m hoping they sneak in a couple. “John Dark” was a fucking killer song.
I was hoping there would be Throwing Muses tour dates by now too but I guess not. There’s only one US show that I know of. Did I miss further announcements? I don’t know. Whatever. I am really looking forward to tomorrow night. I just hope the migraines don’t fuck with me. If they do… screw them, I’m going anyway. My brain can kiss my ass, as it were.
Okay, back to work with you, you brain damaged red head you.
