I saw Yo La Tengo play last night. It was a great show, very musical. They have a huge range, running from sweet through silly to downright difficult. They did things to the guitar that I didn’t know were either possible or legal; at one point there was a sound so loud and full that every cell in my body was shaking. It was beautiful and terrifying.

In between being pummeled by distortion heavy-freeform solos heavy, a curious thing happened. Apparently I look enough like a scene kid (at my age, a scene MAN) that I was given free tickets to some event next week that is trying to draw a crowd of people who look like me. My favorite part is that the tickets say “DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY” on the bottom, which makes me wonder the extent of their ticket-ness. I think I’ll give it a pass regardless.