Philly folks,
Click through for Wanda’s description. She’s in need of an adoption.
Now that it’s been announced (click through for details), I don’t have to keep it a secret anymore!!!
All my favorite boys will be playing together (actually about a year after I saw them all together at a show here in Baltimore) at the Barbary in Philly.
It’s Bright and Early’s EP release, and they asked mister Ben Liebsch to do an acoustic set at the show—his first since the other members of You, Me and Everyone We Know quit.
If you can get there, you definitely should. So proud of ALL these guys. :-D
WATCH OUT BITCHES
I just signed up to run the Baltimore Half-Marathon in October and the Philly Half-Marathon in November.
Imma kick ass.
Hipster Haven
At Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar in Philadelphia to see a free Ben Roth show. Flannel, suspenders, and dark rimmed glasses everywhere…
Sweetest Thing I Heard All Week
I was walking back to my car in the FRIGID wind last night from the Hellogoodbye/YMAEWK show with a semi-new friend. The destination a) so I could go home and b) so I could lend him some books I thought he’d enjoy.
And it’s just…awful cold. Every part of your body is shivering, your hands, whether stuffed in your pockets or covered in gloves, HURT they are so cold.
And we walked past a homeless man, covered in blankets tucked in a corner of a building to avoid the wind. I always feel awful when I see people living in these conditions. I try to do what I can (with what I have) when I can. When I lived in Baltimore and drove past Camden Yards in the sweltering heat, I apologized to a man for not having any change (I rarely do), but I asked him if there was anything I could bring him tomorrow. He asked for water, so I brought him some the next day. But often I feel like there’s not much I can do other than support local organizations to help fight homelessness and maybe offer some food now and then.
The friend I was with is essentially on tour year round, living out of a backpack and a sleeping bag—has very little of his own to give, essentially. As we walked past the man, he told me how earlier in the evening passing a similar view, he almost gave the man his sleeping bag. He was going to give away what kept him warm at night in a moment of pure compassion for a stranger.
That kind of warmth and love for other people is just…unheard of anymore. And truly inspiring. I am more and more convinced, upon further interaction, that he is one of the nicest and most genuine of people I’ve ever met.
