I’m going to bed early tonight. See – I was out late last night. Yes! Out late on a school night! Didn’t get in until after one in the morning. This is because I went with some friends to see the band Spoon at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. it was a great show! Spoon is a very cool band. They are easily the best pop band out there. Tight songs, fun lyrics, perfect rhythms. I came across their most recent CD -”Gimmie Fiction”- last summer and was very impressed. You’ve heard them. Their song “Sister Jack” was in The Wedding Crashers and they performed most of the soundtrack for the movie “Stranger Than Fiction”. Well, they are pretty good live, too. Britt Daniels is the lead guitarist and singer – though I think he actually played rhythm guitar all night and coverted it to lead when he needed to. Which was only a few times but they were great moments. They aren’t flashy or goth or glam or androgynous. They’re just… perfect. The band was obviously having fun onstage, but I was just amazed at their precision. The songs are simple – nothing showy. But the structures are unique and clever.

Then after leaving the Pony – we needed food. After calling around and everyone reminding us it was 11PM on a Tuesday in New Jersey, we found a bar open in Long Branch. AND right next door was a sandwich place that was open until 4AM and delivered to the bar. Heaven! After a beer and scarfing down some perfectly unhealthy small burgers and fries and “pigs in a blanket” w/cheese, we sprang for desert. This evil little sandwich shop served fried Twinkies and Oreos. In one hour, I believe I had all the cholesterol I can handle for the next two months.

But it was damn good!

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