Obey Zolac!

Ohmigod so. Ludo concert. FANTASTIC.

( Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride. (Concert under the cut.) )

So, yeah, the show was awesome, and the small crowd made it a very friendly, intimate affair. I bought myself a Ludo t-shirt:
I immediately bought their oldest and newest albums when I got home, to complete my collection. My life is now complete.

Ludo, in 75 words or less: Music-wise and stage show-wise, Ludo is kinda like OK Go's slightly rough-around-the-edges, weird younger brother who ran away from home and picked up lyrical habits from The Decemberists, Weezer, and Jonathan Coulton. They like to sing about zombies and pirates and dinosaurs and time travel and cyborgs and robots and spaceships and lakes in Louisiana that want to eat you. If that sounds like something you'd be into, check them out.

Here, have the video for "Whipped Cream". It's hilarious.

...So I got about 3 1/2 hours of sleep last night. I had put together the perfect schedule to let me sleep as long as possible and still catch the bus. It would've worked, too, if my computer battery hadn't chosen this morning to reveal that it was failing to charge– AGAIN. I had to shut down my computer and wrap up the cord and shove it all in a bag and haul it with me– AGAIN. I missed the 64 by seconds. Caught the 12 a few minutes later to try and catch the 56 earlier in its route... missed it by seconds also. Was late to work, but sitting at the bus stop on Barbur was okay. Absolutely stunning view of the faintest sliver of moon rising rusty over Mt. Hood's silhouetted shoulder.

Caught a ride with Nicole to the Beaverton Transit Center after work to try to shave some time off of my TriMet travels. She swore she could get me there by 3:30 to catch the 76. She failed. So I waited for the WES and watched a great blue heron preen itself on the roof of a commercial building.

I had to buy a new charger. It was EXPENSIVE.

And now I am exhausted. Brb, passing the hell out now.

So the only Ludo I've ever listened to is their album You're Awful, I Love You, which has some pretty good songs, and some pretty goddamn freaking excellent songs. I figured I ought to look up the rest of their music if I'm gonna go see them on Tuesday. Their new album Prepare the Preparations is all pretty good... I'll have to listen to it some more to form a definite opinion, I think.

Broken Bride - EP, on the other hand... OH MY GOD. Love at first hearing. It is the story of a man whose fiancée dies in an automobile accident on a morning in May in 1989, their wedding day. The man, heartbroken, builds a time machine in an attempt to go back in time and save her. He ends up lost in time, searching for her. It is brilliant and fantastic and tragic and silly and BEAUTIFUL. I bought it immediately, and cannot recommend it enough. <3 Ludo, the crazy, ridiculous, poetical bastards.

Appropriate icon is appropriate, obviously. Is that the Cloister Bell I can hear at the end of Save Our City?