365 project:"goodbye to sleep. i think this staying up is exactly what i need."

day 19.

artist:brand new
album:the devil and god are raging inside me




on November 21, 2006 i went to a record store. i spent quite a while there browsing the selection and waiting in a very, very long line. no, the record store wasn't running a sale, or going out of business. they were playing host to a CD release party for the third album from my favorite band. i was extremely stoked for this, as it had been three years since deja was released. i had heard the single already, about a month or so prior to the release date.

a radio station in Philly (once again, y-rock) as well as one other station in the country had somehow ended up with their hands on the single "sowing season (yeah)" and it was kind of a big deal that they were playing it. we were geared up and sitting in my car waiting patiently to hear it. we were in the Starbucks parking lot, there were four of us. i remember Mandy saying "you might want to turn this down. it gets loud."

the night before the Tuesday of the release, i was informed that it was already on the shelf at a local retailer. they were getting ready to close for the night and setting up shop for the next day. i went, hoping that they'd sell it to me and they did. i knew that id be getting it in less than 24 hours, but i really couldn't wait, and i didn't think that having two copies would be a bad idea.

we listened to the album a few times the day of the instore. we got up there early to wait in line. we went in, picked up our copies of tdag and our wristbands, and headed out to the nearby mall. we came back and figured out that the line was outback and a lot longer than we though, but it didn't matter; any chance to be in the same room with Jesse Lacey was worth it to me to wait.

the instore was fun. we got in line afterwards and were some of the last people to go through and meet the band. they scribbled on our Cd's. life was good. to top of the perfect night, we left the record store and went to ihop for a very late dinner.

that night, November 21, 2006, i put that copy of the devil and god are raging inside me into the "disk 2" slot on my stereo, and it remains there to this very day. when I'm having a bad day, i go to disk 2. when i cant sleep, i go to disk 2. I've fallen asleep to that album more than i can count. when i cant think of anything else to listen to, i go to disk 2.

the other copy of this disk, the one i bought the night before, remains in my car. its been through three cars since that day, but its one of the first things that gets transferred over (along with New York City the goldfish) from car to car. of course the record is on my ipod. i own it on vinyl. i guess what I'm saying here is that i am never without this album.

I'm kind of annoyed with myself though, as I've already done three of the four brand new albums already and we are only three weeks into this project.