i'm at the house of our friends, nate and amy. nate is at work, amy and emily just ran into town for a little while for a drink before last call, and i'm here sitting little norah while they're all away. so...i can blog! we still don't have a connection at home. there is a place that swears that they'll have wireless broadband for where we live by the first of june, and our local cable company says that a cable connection isn't too far from being completed. we'll see. i'm still checking email at my dad's; which i don't have any filters set up on his outlook express, so when i check every several days, i have less than ten legitimate messages, and over a hundred pieces of junk mail.

we've been in a huge period of transition in our lives, so i haven't even thought about booking any shows for heavy wishing. we had some rehearsals, which have been a lot of fun, but nothing beyond that. we'll probably play some beer gardens this summer though.

we went and saw "a mighty wind" tonight. it was great, as we had hoped. i'm sure once it comes out on dvd, we'll watch it enough to where we'll have some favorite quotes, but for now all i can say was that it was a worthy follow-up to best in show. also, it was great that one of the folk bands in the movie called the folkmen, we're the three primary members of spinal tap which was just awesome.

a sad note about our movie experience was that this is the last weekend that the varsity theatre in carbondale will be open. i had some friends of ours take pictures of us outside of the theatre for the fun of it. i know that the place doesn't have the coolest seats in town, no cup holders, no surround sound, but it holds a lot of memories. also, i may be wrong, but the main theatre is probably the largest in southern illinois...it's huge. it's where i first saw "raiders of the lost ark" in '81 and "return of the jedi" in '83. i even saw "the lord of the rings" in the upstairs shirley temple theatre when i was five in '78. i've seen many films at the varsity since then, but those were all memorable moments for me. of course, it's being closed, because of the newest multi-plex opening in town, but i could give a care less. it's just not the same. also, although i'm not a student at s.i.u., nor do i live in carbondale, this is the second and last theatre within walking distance of campus to be closed down in the last ten years. i don't know, i'm sure that the owners have valid reasons, and i'm sure that the maintenance costs on such an old building are unbelievable, but it will still be sorely missed.