Sometime in the middle of the night I was woken up by a horrible cramp in my legs. This used to happen pretty rarely, I'd have a particularly active day and the lactic acid left in my legs with collect until my muscle feels like wood. When I try to move it I'm awakened by a terrible pain. It's all I can do to lay there and try to massage the muscle into compliance. This happened last week with my arm and now my leg is still aching a bit. I remember having to keep my leg as straight as possible to try to get back to sleep after the pain rescinded.
This likely happened because of all the biking I've done lately and because of the show last night. I saw Clutch last night and was in the front row of the Metro. Throughout the show I was actively pushing against the crowd behind me. As usual Clutch put on a great show. Their new album, From Beale Street to Oblivion, comes out later this month though I heard a couple of the songs already and it sounds incredible.

They opened up with a new song, "You Can't Stop the Progress" and played several other new ones including "Electric Worry," the only new one I'm really familiar with. Their set list also included "Big News II", "10001110101", "Burning Beard", "Profits of Doom", "Swollen Goat", "Regulator", "Cypress Grove", "The Soapmakers", and "One Eyed Dollar". The show was crowded and rough, since the band attracts lots of different fans, included baseball capped frat boys who just like to get drunk and start shit.



Friday I saw Fu Manchu with A and a friend of hers. The show was good though one of the opening bands, Valient Thorr(sic), had a singer that ripped off Scissorfight's bit. Get a singer with a huge beard, wild eyes, a gut and let him rant like a sterno bum they picked off the streets. Not that bad of a band but the singer took all the attention from them with his antics.

Earlier in the week I saw Reverend Horton Heat because A had a free ticket. A very good show, though I didn't see the whole thing.

I've been very busy lately, so much so that I try to squeeze in finding a job between everything else that's going on. Getting frustrated about everything on that front. I feel like I've exhausted everything I can do and still haven't gotten very far. Whenever I go to an interview (I've had several) everything seems promising and then...nothing. Yesterday I got completely fed up with it and put the whole search on hold for frustration and had a good workout before the show and felt much better. Something should come through soon. Of course I said that last week and the week before...

Going to Seattle tomorrow and I'll be back Tuesday so I'll continue where I left off after I get back.