Much sadness. Much happiness.

I have lived with my friend Joe Rizzo for what I believe would be exactly one month short of four years today. Joe took Bjorn's room at the 2555 Emerson Ave S (the S is very important part of the address to remember! Ask former resident Josh C. or members of Hot Cross and Transistor Transistor) house. It feels like a very short time ago. In the course of a 32 year life I suppose it is. The time had come though. In my mind I had thought once the time had come for Joe and his longtime girlfriend and dear friend of mine, Lindsay, to move in together that I would be a part of the happy family. With my lovely feline offspring, Rabies the cat, in tow of course. It was not to be though. At first I felt kind of hurt and slightly scared. No way did I think Joe and I would be roommates forever. I had to figure something else out. Thankfully, I had well over 6 months to figure something out. I get along with most people pretty well and I think I've had extremely good fortune with roommates. At this point in my life I would prefer to only live with very close friends of mine. I thought perhaps by the time Joe moved out that maybe Emily and Yasmine may move again or need a roommate. I don't know why I didn't think of my newest best friend Jess first! She'd been living in St. Paul for over a year and she often talked about wanting to live here instead. In this particular neighborhood to be precise! So here we are. It's all worked out. Very sad to see Joe go. Overjoyed, ecstatic, outta my mind happy to have Jessica and her wonderful cats join Rabies and my own family.

Other notes:

* I just got through listening to Fields Lay Fallow's "One Hundred Years Of High Rises..." 12". No one sounds like this anymore or they're just not getting it right. Anyway, they really had the 400 Years sound down. I never got to see the band and I'm not even really sure how long they were around. Ex-Spirit Assembly and pre-Tiny Hawks. I plan on doing YSI style download links on here in the future. So you can listen along if you care. Or laugh at me for being a "stuck in the '90s hardcore kid".

* I don't know. It seems like there is just too much olive oil being added to the Wedge deli's vegan basil walnut pesto.

* The rest of the day's playlist:
Right now:
Television - Adventure LP
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies LP
Tranzmitors - Look What You're Doing / Teenage Filmstar 7"
Shitlickers - Cracked Cop Skulls 7" boot
Alloy - Eliminate LP