Sad Sad City-Weekly Blog #2

It is Friday night and I am sadly too drained from the week-and tonight's attempt to work off the pizza I ate today at the gym-to go out. So I decided to figure out what my next foray into the DC music scene would be. Initially I thought of blogging as literally an online diary of sorts, but as the readings have reminded me, another key use of blogs is to "log the web". So I decided to use my blog to post some of the websites I'm visiting in this week's search for a new place to go, or music to hear.

Imagine my delight when I turned on my computer, still logged in to Twitter, and in the first couple of tweets I see the 9:30 Club (last week's venue) announcing that Austin band Ghostland Observatory is doing a show Saturday at a place called Rams Head. This band is of course popular in their hometown  but I am really starting to grasp their popularity abroad. I had the pleasure of meeting them years ago and they couldn't have been nicer, in addition to being super-entertaining. If anyone does happen to read this before tomorrow, and you're looking for an awesome show, you should definitely check them out. I am considering going myself because it's been years since I've seen them play, but I kind of think that defeats the purpose of trying to find a local scene. So I keep searching...

Then I noticed a link at the bottom of the same tweet to a website/blog called brightestyoungthings. This is a site my fiance told me about because it's written by a friend of a friend. I'm already starting to see a smaller community beginning to form. Maybe I'll shoot her an email and formally introduce myself. No sense in lurking on her site and not making contact. We'll see...

PS-here's some video of Ghostland Observatory. You may know the song.