All hail the camera phone!

I like my little phone. It has a touch-screen, a keyboard, it is small, it usually works, it cost me less than a hundred bucks. It has a pretty bad camera. I'm not going to carry a real camera around with me, so most of the pictures I'm going to take in 2008 are going to be horrible.

I've also mentioned to to fellow blogger Gordon that personal blogs seem to have different purposes. I envisioned this thing being one-third diary, one-third keep-in-touch-with-friends-that-don't-live-so-close-no-more, and one-third things that I think are deep/cool/observations that other people have noticed for along time but I just realized and now I think I'm special and clever.

This entry is going to be mostly diary, unless other people enjoy blurry pictures of things I've seen without much in the way of context, explanation, or conclusions.

Let's get to the pics -

Care Bears on Fire were fun.



The 19-piece Jersey-Metal band later in the night at Otto's Shrunken Head was fun.



The last band at Otto's was surprisingly good and even had a few fans.



The Loved Ones, who opened before the Hold Steady, rocked the shit out of the crowd during a insane storm.




The Hold Steady did not disappoint, and it was nice to be in the first two rows of people the entire show.


And oddly enough for the area (Williamsburg/Greenpoint) the crowd was really good.




Frightened Rabbit (below) and Oxford Collective at Southpaw were both fun.


Live music is fun.
Unfortunately, I probably won't go to one of the best free NY concerts, the Siren festival, this weekend because God is going to make it really hot again this year and my jerkface friend Stefan is having his awesome, shitty birthday party that night.