George has rented a car today so we're going to take a day trip somewhere, probably Pennsylvania. That is one thing I miss about having a car: day trips, just getting the hell away for a little while. But now my favorite thing about having a car is being able to go to the grocery store and buy more than one bag of groceries at a time. The last time we took a car to the grocery store I marvelled at our cupboards for days, just opening them and looking and seeing them full. "I'm going to look at the food!" I'd announce and leap up and open and close cupboards for awhile.

We may even swing by the IKEA in Elizabeth, NJ. I'm a bit hesitant to do this however. IKEA is just not a consumer road I want to go down. When it looks that good and is that cheap, it must fall apart within a year. But if you have under $100 for a dresser and want something with a modicum of design, well, you're kind of trapped. I LOVED that ad they had when someone throws a lamp out and it's raining and this old guy suddenly asks "why do you feel sorry for the lamp?" and then he says because you're dumb or something. I really was feeling sorry for the lamp, too!

Scene Creamers are playing around here soon. I want to try and interview Ian but I don't know if I have it in me anymore. I want to know about his career as an "amateur guerilla historian," as INDEX magazine called him. The last interview I tried to do was with Jack White of The White Stripes. This was obviously before they became huge. I went up to him at the Mercury Lounge and asked if I could do an interview after they played and he said yes. So after the show I hung around a little bit and he was just darting all over the place (avoiding me? I don't know) but I decided it wasn't something I was going to pursue and just left. I hung around TT the Bears for nearly TWO HOURS waiting to interview the Mooney Suzuki while they pulled this totally annoying rock star crap and just kept me waiting and saying "yeah, in a minute" then disappearing, repeatedly. This was even before their Nike commerical and MTV-sponsored college campus tour, so I don't know where this 'tude was coming from. Anyway, doesn't Michelle May look great in that photo?