Blah!

I am doing a terrible job of blogging regularly. Unless you consider it the context of how well I blogged previously. In which case, I rock. So, boo. Yay!

The "blah" of the title isn't actually about me blogging poorly/well(ly?). It's for another reason. I think I'm getting sick- for the first time this winter. Except it's not winter, it's freaking spring! I was almooooost clear of it. Meh. Or, blah.

I don't have any new photos of drawings, although I have plenty of new drawings to take photos of. There hasn't been much in the way of good light to take them though, and our lighting in the house? Terrible. Well, as you can tell from the pictures I've already posted.
But, I will take some new pics soon. The weather's getting nicer, we're actually seeing sunshine again. Woot!

In the meantime- we've been to a number of shows recently. One of my favorites was this past Friday at Ronny's in Logan Square. American Draft and the Werewolfs (sic) opened for OSO. We didn't stay for OSO though because we're old and lame and can't stay up past midnight. Okay, not quite true, since when we left we went to Taco Burrito House for "dinner" and definitely didn't get home before midnight. But you get the point.

So, the bands. The Werewolfs were good- they have a chick drummer who really rocks. She was wailing away, and really kicked ass. But American Draft- I love American Draft. http://www.myspace.com/americandraft Their music is nearly all instrumental, and it's very- I don't know- cinematic? Sometimes instrumentals just fade into the background and are more about white noise, but their stuff definitely is not. Well, first of all, it's loud, so it'd be bad white noise to begin with. But aside from that obvious tidbit, it's so energetic and alive, and feels like there's a story happening in it.

As far as Ronnie's- that was the first time we'd been there. And I was a little concerned after reading the reviews it got on Yelp. Dirty, filthy, worst bar ever... Okay, so it wasn't exactly what I'd call spic and span. But worst bar ever? Noooo. Lots of interesting people- definitely a melange of types. And plenty to look at. It has what my mom would call "character." (She's a greasy spoon aficianado, and turned me- kicking and screaming- into one too.) I suppose for full disclosure though, I should mention that I'm from the U.P. So my standards for what's considered a dirty, filthy, worst bar ever are pret-ty high. Or would that be low?

Okay, so blah blah blah. All that to say, it was a great show, in a very interesting bar.