Anyone reading Lileks these days? He's best around the hollidays.

I saw Weezer and the Foo Fighters this weekend.  Last sunday was the Broncos Game in Denver,  Tuesday was the Steady/Constantines show in SF, and Saturday was Weezer/Foo in Long Beach.   My throat is worn out.

I have allways been curious about the Foo Fighters. Their singles have allways seemed a cut above other cuts.  This concert was good, but I no longer feel like I have been missing out on something: They are  a cut above  but the constantines would kick their ass.  

Weezer's too. But Weezer has become something of a standard bearer of rock. And I don't just mean Dork Rock. They've got "Say it Aint So", kitty pride and all of that.    The other day I was at the park and some youngish college students came to play ball, listening to the Blue Album the whole time.   That put things into perspective.

When that album came out some a decade or so ago we used to listen to it in the Cavalier driving to Kareoke out on Alps.  And we used to clap on cue while singing along to Buddy Holly, but we sang loudest when we sang "My Name is WAKEFIELD!", and all the other high points of 'My Name is Jonas'.  That song is their greatest, even if 'Say it Ain't So' is their best. (I'm not saying it is, but it very well may be)

Once we made it to Kareoke, Rip would sing Sinatra songs with his snifter full of grape juice, giving an occasional leg kick cue to imaginary band near the end of 'New York New York". I don't know if brandy and leg kicks were purely Sinatra, but it seemed to work.  Brian Lee never complained, and Brian Lee knows Sinatra. 

Speaking of Dorks--  Yes, I was speaking of Dorks: Weezer, Rip, Brian Lee...---    I just finished the latest Robert Jordan book.  This elleventh book makes the series length 9000 pages, and counting.  These particular 800 pages were great fun. If all the books were half as eventfull as this one, the series wouldn't have lost precendence to that upstart George Martin. 

As it stands, I can't recommend Jordan to anyone who won't be in traction for 3 months.  But I can't say enough good things about Martin's "Song Of Fire and Ice" which continues with book Four in two weeks. I wonder which main characters he'll kill this time.