Jumping the gun?
So, I bought my Hopscotch ‘12 ticket with my Christmas money this morning.
List of Shows, 2011
- Jan 15 - The Love Language
- Jan 21 - The Tender Fruit, Megafaun
- Feb 27 - The Get Up Kids
- Mar 4 - Future Islands
- Mar 27 - J Roddy Walston & The Business
- Apr 2 - Midtown Dickens
- Apr 8 - Megafaun, The Mountain Goats
- May 3 - Left Outlet, The Love Language
- May 5 - Phil Cook & His Feat, The Love Language
- May 6 - Lonnie Walker, The Love Language
- May 14 - Organos, Mount Moriah
- May 20 - Sex Panther, Volture, Colossus
- Jun 1 - Future Islands, Titus Andronicus, Okkervil River
- Jun 2 - Dirty Bourbon River Show, Holy Ghost Tent Revival
- Jun 8 - Mumford & Sons
- Jun 9 - Phil Cook & His Feat
- Jun 11 - Best Coast, The Decemberists
- Jun 16 - Troubel, Wind & Willow, Phillip H. Mancuso
- Jun 25 - Jake Owen, Keith Urban
- Jul 29 - The Rosebuds, Bon Iver
- Aug 8 - Death Cab for Cutie
- Aug 9 - LMFAO, Ke$ha
- Aug 13 - Goodbye, Titan
- Sep 8 - HOPSCOTCH - Last Year’s Men, Spider Bags, The Love Language, Black Lips
- Sep 9 - HOPSCOTCH - Carlitta Durand, Annuals, Twin Shadow
- Sep 10 - HOPSCOTCH - Future Islands, The Rosebuds, All Tiny Creatures, Toro Y Moi, Beach Fossils, Titus Andronicus
- Sep 22 - Megafaun
- Oct 13 - J Roddy Walston & The Business
- Oct 20 - Trampled by Turtles
- Oct 21 - Minus The Bear
- Nov 11 - Bowerbirds, Megafaun
- Nov 27 - Future Islands
- Dec 14 - Atlas Sound
I think I did okay.
Jackpot
It’s been closed for over a year, but they finally tore it down. Is it weird to be emotionally attached to a bar? It felt like home, and they played good music. That place enabled my freedom from the hell that is social anxiety. A part of me is a little sad today.
Treats and snoozin’, snoozin’ and treats. That’s it.


