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.

I make a damn fine quiche. (Taken with instagram)

I make a damn fine quiche. (Taken with instagram)

Brinner with my boo. (Taken with instagram)

Brinner with my boo. (Taken with instagram)

We got good genes.

We got good genes.

Treats and snoozin’, snoozin’ and treats. That’s it.