So the John Mayer concert is next weekend and I'm starting to get pretty damn excited. I watched a video yesterday of a behind-the-scenes on the road kinda thing with John, which was incredibly funny and very well shot and wrapped with a live recording of City Love with a great guitar solo. This guy's just plain good. What's got me more excited is his upcoming album which is out early September (I'm going to be a VERY poor college boy between that and Half-Life 2 all coming out in the same month) which has only 10 tracks (frowny), most if not all of which are songs that he already plays live, but it has absolutely the coolest cover I've ever seen. It's a two-tone cover in a shade of dark blue or turquoise with just a picture of Mayer standing tall, arms down to his sides, guitar slung around his neck. It was almost like how I saw myself - especially since he's wearing cargos, a t-shirt and sneakers in the picture. It's called Heavier Things, which I guess fits the whole cover theme. I'm very, very excited to hear this album - his studio tracks are my favorite songs to listen to.
This past week, you may feel old to find out that the NES turned twenty years old. Yeah. 20. The system we all adored as little kids is just a little bit older than we thought. I got mine at the age of 5, which was thirteen years ago, which means the system had already been out for seven years. And it still sold like hotcakes when Super Mario Brothers 3 broke every game sale record up to that point.
And! I get my car back today. At last! I've been missing it for about the last week. Of course, nothing will compare to the dream I had where I acquired a 323Ci convertible and everyone loved it. But at this point I'm just happy to get the Camry of Serious Hardcore Action back in my life. And I'm still waiting for TRD to produce suspension mods for the current-gen Camrys, because dammit, it needs it.