Tell me where the light is ...

Easter weekend alternated between beautiful and gloomy, happy and shitty. In general though, it was nice to have a three day weekend, our first day off from work in about a month and a half. Work has been especially exhausting recently, and the back half of the month should only get worse. But it might the fact that in general I really haven't taken a vacation yet and it's almost been a year since i started working that is starting to creep up on me. It was fortunate that last week ended on Thursday because that afternoon, I was at the end of my rope.

Friday night I went to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Riviera Theatre. They changed the format of the floor at the Riviera Theatre into this tiered structure, which is really strange. It used to be such a great venue and it feels like it's broken up into crowded cattle pens now. The YYYs were spectacular live though. The crowd was half hipster posing and half people killing each other jumping around to the music. Moshing is pretty lame, but it was nice to see some enthusiasm...i guess? Much like the Strokes the week before, the live show made me rethink the album they just put out, which I (and most other people) had pegged as surprisingly boring. The songs sound very different now that I've seen them live. The band was great partially because Nick Zinner's guitar sounds absurdly monstrous coming from his skinny goth body and partially because Brian Chase's sounds absurdly monstrous coming from a dorky, bespectacled guy playing with a traditional grip. But mostly it's because Karen O. is just absurd. She's sexy, cute, violent, childish, glam, gritty. Stomping, strutting, punching, spitting, dancing, and cheerleading her way around the stage. I think I'm in love.

After the concert, the rest of Friday night was fairly unsatisfying. And i don't mean it was unsatisfying by comparison; it just sucked. On Saturday I almost learned how to hit off the tee at a driving range in Lincoln Park, but my friend and I gave up and instead spent the afternoon wandering down the Lake Shore. It was a beautiful day. She made an interesting comment at Navy Pier - that it was nice that something that vapid exists because it's strangely comforting to know that somebody out there is still spending their time doing stupid shit. haha. I know it sounds really ridiculous and jaded and dramatic to say that - but it's kind of true.

Unfortunately, a bad night once again ruined an otherwise nice day. And don't get me started on today - the heavy rain kept me inside all day. And for the last couple days my body and mind have felt ragged and worn down. Something is wrong, and I don't know what, and hopefully it will go away because it's not helping. Ugh.