{"id":1234,"date":"2005-05-17T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/i-cant-believe-i-am-still-alive\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:48","slug":"i-cant-believe-i-am-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/17\/i-cant-believe-i-am-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe I am still alive&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as anyone looking at this stupid thing probably knows at this point, I went to the NIN concert last night.<\/p>\n<p>I posted about half my pictures &#8211; the Sprint online services thing went down about halfway through.  For a complete look, scope the sideshow <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/58679272@N00\/sets\/347000\/show\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, there was a conversation about the Rolling Stones, and how they were still touring.  I like the Stones as much as the next guy, but part of me wants to say &#8220;give it the fuck up guys&#8221;.  Last night was something of an alteration to that perspective.  I felt old, even before things started.  There were kids there that were in diapers when NIN cut their first album.  I felt like a dinosaur in an ice-age creature park.<\/p>\n<p>Once the tunes started pumping though, I felt like I had 10 years stripped off my life.  If a band as young as NIN can do something like that so someone that is still relatively young, I can only imagine what a band like the Stones can do to, say, someone my parents&#8217; age.  I don&#8217;t know that I will still be doing it then, or that any of the bands I think worthwhile will be, but fuck I hope so.  My ears still hurt, and it feels great.  I did some wonderful head banging (and didn&#8217;t give myself whiplash, like I did last time).  I did do plenty of jumping around &#8211; the photojournalist in me refuses to let shit go buy unrecorded when I have something to record it with &#8211; hence all the pics.  Apologies to everyone who didn&#8217;t like them =)<\/p>\n<p>I had a fucking awesome time.  Not the best NIN show I have ever been to, but pretty far from the worst.  I&#8217;ve never seen them in a venue that small either, that was pretty goddamn rad.  It was great sharing it with <lj user=\"murnkay\">, <lj user=\"kiia\">, and <lj user=\"misshellion\">.  Thanks for the buyout <lj user=\"anathemad\">.<\/p>\n<p>When I got out of the concert and pushed through the mob, I checked my voice mail.  My new roommate called me in a panic.  He is currently planning to press charges against the subletters of his previous apartment, and needed to get whatever stuff he still had in his old apartment out before they got served.<\/p>\n<p>AKA last night.<\/p>\n<p>So, after walking to Zimbabwe and back on Sunday, then being on my feet\/jumping around at the concert last night, I got a ride from <lj user=\"kiia\"> uptown, and met him to help him move his stuff from the West Side on the 70&#8217;s to the guts of Washnington Heights.  My blisters have blisters. The centerpiece of this move &#8211; a 100+lb big screen tv that HAS to have had some Flintstone tech involved (maybe they used slate for the tubes?).  This fucker was so ginormous, I couldn&#8217;t get my arms around it and get a grip on each one of the handles.  We waited for about 20 minutes to get a van-cab, which, ultimately, we jammed all his shit (and ourselves) into.  He is sick, and sounds like he is on the verge of becoming seriously ill.  I hope he did what I told him and took some goddamn NyQuil and went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I got done there and headed south, thinking to go home.  Instead, I missed (by about 1 minute) a shooting at 125th street on the west side.  The assailant jumped onto the tracks, and was running south.  Nobody seemed to have been &#8216;shot&#8217;, but there were about 20 cops after this guy.  Of course, no trains. <\/p>\n<p>I decide to fuck the train, and go to 1020.  I meet up with <lj user=\"wangch61\">, have a few pints of LI iced tea to calm my nerves, watched the Yankees win again, then went to get a bite before I went home.  I won 10$ on a &#8216;Win For Life&#8217;, and got home just before 2.  It is at that point that I decided to fix the cable, which had been cut off at the source, again.<\/p>\n<p>Got the internet working, then went to bed shortly thereafter.  Nothing like clambering around exhausted on a harlem rooftop with 100 feet of coax to cap off a night.<\/p>\n<p>I have been in back-to-back meetings all morning.  I have so many things I have to do today, and my head is still rocking to the echoes of a great show.  Despite the fact that it was less than 24 hours ago, it feels like it was about 20 years ago right now.  I got a charley horse in my left calf this morning that I thought was going to make me grit my teeth so bad they would shatter (a la Kill Bill).  I really want to take it easy tonight, but I gotta at least drop off laundry\/dry cleaning.  After I pick up my shoes &#8211; which I have three pairs of being re-soled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as anyone looking at this stupid thing probably knows at this point, I went to the NIN concert last night. 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