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Frydee 40 Watt Sun

On the player above is the track “Carry Me Home” by British doomers 40 Watt Sun, whom I should’ve driven to see tonight in Brooklyn. Being obliged to head out to Long Island tomorrow morning, tired from work, intrigued at the notion of spending some time (and that’s not euphemism, though that also would have been nice) with The Patient Mrs., I flaked on the show and came back to the valley after the day at the office and dinner out, from which I’d otherwise have gone into the city.

My evening thus far has consistent of two-thirds of a bottle of wine, watching the Yankees succumb to the invincible pitching of the Blue Jays and having said spouse with whom I stayed home to spend time fall asleep roughly an hour ago at 10PM. Some you win, some you lose. At least I’ll have probably another four hours awake to fester in it.

The flipside of the coin — to borrow a phrase from the recently-interviewed John Garcia — is that if I’m a miserable bastard here, I’d be a miserable bastard in Brooklyn, and at least being here doesn’t require wearing anything other than pajamas in the name of public decency. See? To every cloud… something or other.

Maybe if I’m feeling crazy enough, I’ll drive to Philly and catch 40 Watt Sun tomorrow with Batillus and Sadgiqacea at Kung Fu Necktie. Why not? I’m already heading to Philly next week for both Kyuss Lives! on Wednesday and the Small Stone Records showcase Friday and Saturday (skipping Kyuss Lives! in NYC because I want to see Freedom Hawk, Infernal Overdrive and the rest at The M-Room and because, well, it’s apparently worth the extra hour to me not to have to be in Manhattan).

More likely I’ll just wait and catch 40 Watt Sun at Roadburn next Spring, where they will join a pants-shittingly good lineup that so far includes Sleep, The Obsessed, Voivod and Om, among others. If you’re ever going to see a band, you’re never going to see them be better than they’ll be there anyway, so screw it.

I’ll be in Brooklyn next Tuesday (Sept. 20) anyway to catch Lo-Pan, The Brought Low and the almighty Suplecs at Union Pool for the show The Obelisk is co-presenting thanks to the generosity of BrooklynVegan. Please go. More info here, and I’ve also included the flyer at the bottom of this post, both because it’s informational and because I think it’s cool looking.

Hope you have a great and safe weekend. And if you don’t, I hope you put the forum to good use and get to bitching about it. I know I will.

Here’s that flyer:

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