like pete palladino at the crowbar

Luca played at Congress last night. It rocked. And... it was for charity, too. Some lucky homeless dude is going to get a can of delicious baked beans, all thanks to me.

Monkfish knows the Luca's frontman (Nick Luca), so we chatted with him after the show. I always get a little flustered and giddy when I'm talking to rock stars. Of course, you've almost surely never heard of Luca. And while they have a couple of albums on the market, I think that's largely because Nick Luca works for a recording studio. So they're not that big or anything... but it doesn't matter to me. It's a huge rush

Oh god oh god how I want to be a rock star.

I didn't have my camera, and my usual contingency photographer, nop.bot, left his at home in favor of his flask. So instead, you'll find a photo I took the day after, at the courthouse downtown.

At the show:

1. We met a guy who moved to Tucson solely to live in Tucson. Previously, I had assumed that all people in Tucson either (a) came here for college and never left, (b) had family ties here, (c) are passing through, or (d) are republican engineers / air force people / rich snowbirds. Well lo and behold, at least one guy moved here just because he thought it would be a cool place to live. According to L, usually when there are fun things to do in a city, it has a high cost of living. But in Tucson, it's ridiculously cheap (as a grad student, I make more than the median income), and yet there remain fun things to do.

2. Talking with kat, the hot librarian:
kat: you know, I've never slept with a virgin
me: me neither. hmm... is that Islam, where you get like 80 virgins when you die? who the hell would want that? i mean, who wants to have sex with 80 people who don't know what the hell they're doing?
kat: [laughs] how's the no-virgin thing worked out for you?
me: pretty good... you?
kat: awesome.

Song of the Day: Calexico - Feast of Wire