Launch

It's my first posting, and I'm already too hungover to write. This site was initially going to be called www.whatWLdidlastnight.com
set up mainly to document the many myriad misadventures through the nighttime of New York city and my varied travels worldwide...but I realized that sometimes I have daytime adventures too. So there you have it.

So this is what I would call a "soft launch" (the only thing soft about me -- and no, I mean personality-wise, get your heads out of the collective gutter!). What I mean is that this entry will be relatively short, and lack some of the brutal honesty and depraved ramblings you will come to know and love. I need to ease into this, breaking it in slowly as I get used to the world.

Last night...

Saw my good buddy DJ Knob Touch spin at new venue Second on Second. Virtually dead except for my friend's girl and a few others, and the appearance of a couple of old college friends for the obligatory yearly encounter that went a little like this:

Me: What are you up to these days?
Them: Well, I'm editing a little here and there, making a living.
Me: That's great.
Them: Yeah, I'm happy.
Me: ...
Them: ...
(much head nodding and uncomfortable silence as we both realize we have little in common, the main reason we don't really hang out more than once a year. Do I hear crickets?)

So I extricate myself from the conversation and just concentrate on chatting to my friend's girlfriend (again, NOT in the way you're thinking, she is a nice girl and we were just talking about the publishing industry), and concentrate on DJ Knob Touch's brilliant set of indie/hiphop/electronica greats.

I down the second Kirin, and I'm off to grab a couple of friends and head to The Thrills show at Irving. After an unfortunate encounter with an ex-girl (I just wanted us to be civil, but I don't think she saw it that way), we're at the show, minutes before the band come onstage.

I had low-ish hopes for The Thrills... I like their music but a friend had told me they sucked live. But she had seen them at Coachella in 106-degree heat in a crowded, stifling tent, so who knows... but I just picked up their CD the day before so I was pretty excited.

I needn't have worried, becuase they were very, very fun. Not mind blowing, but cool. Reveiw to come, with blurry, almost non-descript pictures. Promise.

Welcome to Wanderlust.