yeah.

i didn't miss anything because there wasn't anything to miss. well, ok - i would have gone out a couple of times, maybe. weather permitting...

sllllooooow year in detroit.

there's a few things coming up, but, again, it's the same bands i've been seeing for the last couple of years.

i pointed this out about this time last year - i may spend more time exploring the artier fringes this year, as a consequence of age. i may end up at the dso a few times. there's lots of shows happening, but rock music has really turned over to a point of macho stupidity that i never liked. the artsy fringe of rock that i always existed within has largely evaporated, or at least isn't appearing in detroit. it may be lost to history at this point. the aesthetic i'm looking for will inevitably appear in some combination of hip-hop and techno, but it's not really presenting itself to me at this point; what i'm seeing is mostly the same kind of toxic masculinity, which has long been the norm in hip-hop, and appears to have become the norm over the last few years in techno.

so long as i can find something to do a few times a month, i'm not going to be obsessing over sorting through much of this stuff. but, i'm going to have to survey bits of it....

we're in a down period, musically. 

the go-to spot in mexicantown appears to have shifted directions. that was apparent from the start, but the turnover is at this point apparently mostly complete. oddly, though, some of these shows are showing back up at the magic stick, or at least at the theatre downstairs. the venue in mexicantown was really simply too small to be detroit's go to rock bar; maybe everybody just finally came to terms with it. some of them have been moved back out to the suburbs, which is where they were when i first got here. it's going to be a trek out to la dispute.

there appear to be a few new venues. ufo is re-opened....

detroit is known for this. you have to pay attention, or things start disappearing in front of you and you don't know where they end up. ottawa, on the other hand, has had the same five bars for fifty years; they just change names once in a while.

anyways, i should get out to see something in a few days. for now, i'm going to nap and try to call about the fingerprints again in the afternoon.