| | i wish i could hear you sadI am forced to consider getting earplugs now, as it has occurred to me that my hearing is getting worse. Over the past week and a half, I have been to three shows - Straylight Run a week and a half ago on-campus; Jack's Mannequin at the 9:30 Club the following Monday; and last Friday, The Rocket Summer and The Early November at the Recher Theatre in Towson. Towson is at least an hour away by car, and requires traveling on a great many highways that lead to spectacular places I have never heard of. I have decided that Towson is a very magical place, even though the people who are from there do not feel the same way, but perhaps when they visit Silver Spring they can see a magical quality that I as a native have missed.
At 11:30 Friday night Laura and I stormed out of the theatre, angry that the lead singer of The Early November, whose name is Ace, could not pronounce the name of Towson, taking to calling it "Towzzzon" or "Townsend," and the Towsonians in the audience were all frothing at the mouth with disgust. Thrown back into the springtime bustle of York Road, I realized that I could not hear anything. A stock androgynous emo boy stood at the entrance of the theatre, handing out many a flyer for future shows at this venue and others. My first thought upon seeing the androgyne was to say "You're pretty," but then I realized I could not hear what he was saying to me.
"I'm sorry," I said, "Can you repeat what you said?"
"Can you really not hear anything?" the androgyne's friend asked, approaching me. The friend was not androgynous; rather, he looked very much like a boy, and not pretty in any sense of the word.
"No, no I can't," I said, explaining that I had been to three concerts in eight days.
"Dude, you should get earplugs," the friend said. The androgyne agreed in his prettiness, but had to turn away to hand a flyer to someone else, and Laura and I walked away. I shouted like a drunkard for the great many blocks back to the car, which I feared had been stolen, but it was not.
If I can find a re-usable pair of earplugs, I will have to purchase them, but if I have less than fifteen dollars, I will simply buy an Early November album and say "to hell with the rest." I can forgive Ace so long as he does not refer to my hometown as "Silver Springs."
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