Woah, after all that gum-flapping a few days ago, I almost forgot to write about the Les Savy Fav show. Almost. Needless to say, my ears were left reeling halfway to deafness from the sheer kickassery of it all. Unfortunately, my camera decided to crap out (with the lens extended, no less) from the moment I got there, so I've had to make do with surrogate memories via Angela's pictures:

Starting out pretty normally...

Tim informing us that we're all living on borrowed time...

The crowd, already won over, looks on in awe at the posterior of a legend, shaking in time to the beat. Yeah, gross....but great.

A caption would only mar the magnificence of this shot. Dammit.

At the end of the final song, Harrington asked everyone to take a seat, and while the band wound down, he napped for a spell in the middle of the floor. (Not pictured: the guy who would spoon him scarcely 10 seconds later)

Good God, what a phenomenal night of basketball. Before I start this stat homework, you need to know 2 things:


this,

and.....

this:

One of the best dilemmas I've had to face in a long time is deciding where to study abroad next spring. That being said, I still need to make a choice, and I'm not short on options- in fact, there're almost too damn many of them. Right now, I'm leaning towards one of these locales:

-Berlin -never been, but read many good things
-Budapest - getting back to my roots in a fun, cheap(er) city
-Prague - pretty much the same as Budapest, but closer to Germany
-Rome - never been, and everywhere else will be covered in snow in January
-Barcelona - looks hella fun, if I can find a program there

I still have until this fall to decide, so who knows how this list will look then.

Hmm.......

I'm gonna keep this brief, I have to hurry up so this most sacred of holidays doesn't leave without me, if you catch my drift.

I've neglected my uploading duties for too long, so here are some tracks that haven't left winamp for the past week or so. Considering how much music I go through these days, that's quite an accomplishment.

Wow, just like that, it's been almost a month since my last entry....fuggin' crazy. I'm sure you're eager to know what's been going on in the interim, and I'd like nothing more than to relive it in bullet form, so read on.

- 17 credits continues to treat me....okay. We're on speaking terms, at least.

- Finally found out I'll be setting up shop in Gildersleeve next semester, and if I wake up more than 5 minutes before class, it'll be a miracle.

- Princeton last weekend was a damn good time, and even if it involved some thinking during the day, winning the conference made up for it. Also, eating clubs are insane.

Alright, enough with that, I need to get on with the real news: starting last week with Of Montreal and Mogwai, Charlottesville has begun a season that will play host to a ridiculous selection of acts. Quite honestly, I don't feel I'd be remiss in calling it obscene. During the next month or two, our humble town will see, among others:

Silver Jews

The Books

Soul Position (RJD2 & Blueprint)

Ghostface Killah

Les Savy Fav (headlining Fest Full of Rock)

Jason Forrest

Wilco

Seriously, what's going on?

Of course, MACRoCK is also going on at JMU on April 7th and 8th, and will feature The Walkmen, Tiger Bear Wolf, Ris Paul Ric, Hail Social, Voxtrot, The Wrens, Aloha, The Extraordinaires, and whoever else.

THEN, the Black Cat has, in quick succession, Animal Collective, The Joggers, Georgie James, and Wolf Parade......

O_O