I am leaving this office in thirty minutes no matter what you say or do

E mentioned how our bar in the city where we went to school was recently featured live on a radio doc. A bunch of bands were talking about how it's the place they play no matter what. It made us kind of teary eyed, nostalgic in that mid twenties unearned way.

It was exactly the kind of place I left the city I grew up in hoping to find. I started going to shows there alone half a decade ago and it completely changed the way I felt about live music, which was already pretty good. Despite being the best place I've found to watch bands cut teeth, it never got pretentious or expensive. It's the kind of place that intoxicates you, no matter how sober you are, because the sound is so good and the band is right there and everyone around you feels the same and dances. It kills me to go to venues where people don't move to the music, where even amazing music doesn't move people. It's the kind of place where no one pushes up front and midway through sets you exchange knowing half smiles with kids you've never met, like, I cannot believe this moment exists.

shout out out out out - in the end it's your...

Also, I'm not moving again after all, following some discussion, even though I liked the house I went to see so much I ended up staying for dinner last night.

Also, last night we went to see a supposed academic and I realized that it is becoming increasingly possible that I don't believe in academia and maybe that's why I have so little to do with it. That or laziness. Either or.