carolina was a gambler

the new coma’s here! the new coma’s here! i got my three disc canadian extravaganza in the mail yesterday. the dvd was everything i hoped for and more. all matt good’s videos with commentaries, the newly produced “while we were hunting rabbits” animated video, a making-of feature for the “rooms” portion of this set, some slide shows set to music, and a discography.

i bought a crappy pc mic at circuit shitty yesterday for $10. it was a piece of junk. even with mic volume set to the highest, it didn’t pick up anything. so i jumped in the golden bonner with my coma in hand and went on a 90 minute trek to return the bad mic and find a compusa. i turned my car stereo up to 11 and away i went.

driving west into the setting sun is not something you should do if you want to keep your eyeballs from burning to the core. you could even say that the cores of my eyeballs stopped spinning. even with sunglasses and a car visor, it still is like 100% pure radiation. i breathed a sigh of relief when i finally got to the circuit shitty parking lot.

after the refund business was taken care of, it was time to drive 10.8 miles to the nearest compusa. i went north and then headed west on river road, which is exactly like the name implies. it curves and winds and seems like west is not the only direction you travel. but the views are great, especially when the sun has almost set. that “twilight hour” when the sun is almost gone, but it leaves behind a bunch of spectacular colors. those colors bounce off the clouds and display on the mountains. it was hard to keep my eyes on the road.

i got to compusa, bought my mic, and headed home. i had almost listened to both music discs of “in a coma” in doing so. and it’s just like the song says: big city life is fun.