I totally forgot to mention Tahiti 80, I think.

July 18, 2001

A week ago monday I went to see Tahiti 80 at Spitz. It was a pretty good show, but that's not why I'm mentioning it. The exciting bit is that when I arrived and got in line to enter the show I started chatting with this 'bloke' from London who works for a small music magazine. He was only about a year older than me and had just finished university. The interesting thing is that he had never really spoken to an American before. The first thing we discussed was just music in general. He wondered if the Strokes got as much hype in the states as they got in the UK, if nu-metal is a term created by NME and how popular Travis and Coldplay really are stateside. I told him the truth and happily recited all my new favorite british bands. It got really interesting when he asked me if all Americans carry guns around with them. I couldn't help but laugh a little bit becuase of the absurdity of the idea, but at the same time I was a bit concerned that young Brits are scared to come to the US since we are all gun toting nutcases. I mean, I may sell guns, but I certainly don't use them.

Even though I was a bit confused by how little he knew about the US I still had fun chatting with him and mocking the first two bands. Now, work is over and I am going to go and make my last round of CD buying.

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