September 26, 2004
Yay! I was finally able to sell my wedding dress! I had it cleaned shortly after we returned from the honeymoon and it's been sitting in our apartment since then. I posted it on e-bay twice but my reserve (minimum) wasn't reached either time and then Adam posted it and it finally sold. Now, if only we could have this luck with the co-op...
Saw Mean Girls this weekend. I'd heard good things but my expectations weren't that high but it turned out to be much better than I expected. Last night, Adam and I went to see one of my favorite bands, The Muffs, play. This is the band I wanted to see the night of my bachelorette party but ended up having too much fun and getting a little too tipsy with my friends to schlep all the way to Brooklyn to see them so I was pretty happy they came back to the city to play. The first opening band was awful and after I saw Kim, the lead singer, walk by I entertained the thought of interviewing the band. I'd interviewed them once before and didn't really like their newest album so I hadn't tried to set one up in advance but there were two or three more opening bands to go and I figured, why not? I thought the interview went fairly well--the problem is I hadn't brought a recorder (or a camera) and we ended up spending a lot more time with the band than I thought we would and I didn't have that many questions prepared. But hopefully it'll still make for a good piece in Adam's zine.
Adam also had an interview scheduled with Tommy Ramone so we watched the new documentary on the Ramones, End of the Century. It was good--I have to confess I've never been a hardcore Ramones fan. I knew next to nothing about the Ramones until I met Adam and in fact, was kind of offered an opportunity to interview Joey Ramone a number of years ago. I had just gotten into punk and zines but just younger pop punk bands like The Bouncing Souls and The Muffs and had gone to a Ramones birthday celebration to interview The Prissteens and decided to interview George Tabb as well when he said the person I should really be interviewing was Joey. I think Joey had walked by at that moment or George brought him over and, since I knew nothing about the Ramones and was a little taken aback by the way Joey looked, I secretly hoped I wouldn't have to and, luckily, Joey said later when George asked him if I could interview him and I could tell he really didn't want to be bothered so I was pretty relieved at the time. Of course, I'm sure most punks would've shaken their head in disbelief by my ignorance but, unfortunately, my education in punk was very limited until I met Adam (and even now my punk knowledge hasn't expanded that much).
Posted by Jennifer at September 26, 2004 10:05 PM