Vacation in Athens is Calling

Not Athens so much as Atlanta, though I'm fairly certain that I'll be able to make it up to Athens for one night. It's been a long time since I've paid it a visit, so long that I don't think I can actually recall it. I doubt I've been since I lived in New York, so I'd guess at least three years. My guess: more bars downtown, nicer houses, larger price tags. From what I've heard Athens is becoming more and more a remote suburb of Atlanta. I'm not certain that this is a bad thing, at least from my perspective. Though an hour plus will be too long of a commute for most, I have a few friends who've lived most of their post-college lives there and, more and more, it seems like a viable solution.

Band of Horses is playing four sold out shows at the EARL, one of my old favorite Atlanta venues, but tickets sold out in minutes. The EARL is a tiny little club and it would be great to see BoH there, especially seeing as how Anne and I last saw them at McCarren Park, with 4,000 of our closest friends. There's no way the EARL holds 400 people. I poked around on Craigslist and Stubhub, but there were 10 people looking for tickets to every 1 seller. I asked one of the sellers who simply stated 'make an offer' how much he was looking for and he replied that he had offers of $150 for 2 tickets. As I told him, too rich for my blood. I was thinking about swinging by to try to scalp tickets, but if that price is any indication, it's just not worth my time.