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September 26, 2005
I need to straighten up my mental health
Someone said something about mental health days, and now I've got the Folded Under song going through my head. I'm still bummed they're breaking up. Even though I haven't seen them play in a while (maybe a year?), they're still one of my favorite local bands. I first saw them in the summer of 2001 with my then-boyfriend. His old roommate (I think they were roommates, but they may just have had apartments next to each other...I'm not sure.) was the new drummer for FU, so we went to see them play at Mary Wash one night. Several months after that, the then-boyfriend and I had broken up and I wasn't doing so well. Part of my plan to get back to normal was to go out more, so when I saw that FU was going to be playing at a bar I liked, I decided to go to the show. I ended up buying their cd and a couple of stickers, and pretty soon after that, I was at every show I could make it to. One of the guitarists was also a manager at that bar, so even when they weren't playing, I could still count on seeing some of the band on the weekends. I spent the rest of 2002 and part of 2003 going to see their shows and hanging out at what I considered "my bar", but that started tapered off after a while. I went back to school in the fall of '03 and started dating Mike around the same time, and I found myself wanting to go out less and less. At some point I heard that they were working on a second album which I was really looking forward to hearing, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that they were breaking up at the beginning of this year. I've gone from being someone who used to plan my weekend around their shows to someone who remembers them once in a while when a song goes through my head.
Posted by oracle at September 26, 2005 1:57 PM in the second year