Friday, September 02, 2005
yesterday's lateness
A quarter of this city's metro residents are students, and so September 1st is the big number one moving day in Boston. Before my show I grabbed the last few boxes out of our old place and helped the wife clean it up a bit. We ran that shit over to our new pad, and traffic was so fucked I had to call the station to tell Leana (the general manager, and the lady who dj's before me) that I'd be a little bit late. That little bit turned into a helluva lot, as it took almost an hour to get from Allston to Somerville (normally a fifteen-minute drive). We left our new place at 3:45, and any other day of the year I would have made it up to Chestnut Hill within twenty minutes. Instead I rolled up at 4:30, hosted a forty-five minute show, and basically just totally wasted my time. The only reason I insisted on showing up still was because the program proposals for next semester are up, and are due in next week. Anyhow, yes, moving day is miserable in Boston. Imagine the scene on Baxter Hill, but multiplied by 20, and spread throughout an entire city.
Anyway, since I didn't get my own Spinitron playlist set up, here's what I played.
Black Dice: "Big Drop", Beaches and Canyons
Guided by Voices: "Dayton Ohio - 19 Something and 5", Tonics and Twisted Chasers
Blue Oyster Cult: "Transmaniacon MC", Blue Oyster Cult
John Wilkes Booze: "Cultural Hurricane", Telescopic Eyes Glance the Future Sick
Animal Collective: "Daffy Duck", Feels
The Cherry Valence: "Low Class Warrior", TCV3
Heathen Shame: "Iron Turtleneck", Speed the Parting Guest
A quarter of this city's metro residents are students, and so September 1st is the big number one moving day in Boston. Before my show I grabbed the last few boxes out of our old place and helped the wife clean it up a bit. We ran that shit over to our new pad, and traffic was so fucked I had to call the station to tell Leana (the general manager, and the lady who dj's before me) that I'd be a little bit late. That little bit turned into a helluva lot, as it took almost an hour to get from Allston to Somerville (normally a fifteen-minute drive). We left our new place at 3:45, and any other day of the year I would have made it up to Chestnut Hill within twenty minutes. Instead I rolled up at 4:30, hosted a forty-five minute show, and basically just totally wasted my time. The only reason I insisted on showing up still was because the program proposals for next semester are up, and are due in next week. Anyhow, yes, moving day is miserable in Boston. Imagine the scene on Baxter Hill, but multiplied by 20, and spread throughout an entire city.
Anyway, since I didn't get my own Spinitron playlist set up, here's what I played.
Black Dice: "Big Drop", Beaches and Canyons
Guided by Voices: "Dayton Ohio - 19 Something and 5", Tonics and Twisted Chasers
Blue Oyster Cult: "Transmaniacon MC", Blue Oyster Cult
John Wilkes Booze: "Cultural Hurricane", Telescopic Eyes Glance the Future Sick
Animal Collective: "Daffy Duck", Feels
The Cherry Valence: "Low Class Warrior", TCV3
Heathen Shame: "Iron Turtleneck", Speed the Parting Guest
