okay, I might have arranged this just a little
You know how you’ll go for a month with nothing going on, and then three good bands all play on the same night? It’s the same thing with end-of-the-year parties. We need to spread them out a bit more, people. I’m going to have my holiday party in April.
Saturday night I went to Joe and Andrea’s in Hillsborough. The crowd was roughly divided between librarians and musicians. Half the people I’ve met in the last year are librarians, so it did not surprise me that they were the ones getting jiggy while the rock ‘n’ rollers stood around quietly admiring Joe’s home studio.
My friend Kelly celebrated her birthday last night, and she got a pretty good turnout, considering it was a Monday in the middle of the recovery zone between Christmas and New Year’s. (Photos from Kelly’s birthday and Joe and Andrea’s party are in the holiday gallery.)
We met at the West End Wine Bar in Chapel Hill (voted by CitySearch the best spot in the Triangle to bring a date, and I can’t argue with that). I suppose I’m more used to sitting around a smoky bar drinking draft beer than I am to sitting on a velvet sofa discussing the connection between syrah and shiraz. Hey, don’t get me wrong, I like it, and I love it when the bar snack is a cheese platter rather than a bag of pretzels. (In addition to two blue cheeses and one ass cheese, the platter included a chunk of manchego. As Ryan cut a piece he proclaimed, “Manchego is everywhere these days,” and didn’t miss a beat when it slipped off the knife: “On Dave’s shoe, for instance.”)
And guess who else had her birthday yesterday?
