Holland wins

The Netherlands and rain are a fucking bitch, and God sucks too. I don't have much to write but I'm fuming. I was so excited to skank and go to a show, I found a little one in The Hague for 5 Euro, I figured out how to get there, I was going to take my bike on the train, and everything. I was even ready at 8:30, but I needed to fill my chipcard so I went to Kralingse Zoom and did that and left at 8:45. I had brought my raincoat just in case. As I biked through the campus on the way to the station it started misting, I was like okay God what the fuck, can it ever NOT rain, it was so nice, the sky was even clear. Then I got past Burgemeester Oudlaan and it started raining more so I stopped to put on my raincoat. Not more than 5 minutes later down Oostzeedijk, it was like a full-on monsoon. I had not experienced anything so torrential in this city, sheets of rain in the wind, it was impossible not to get wet. I hadn't even made it that far yet. I had this plan all worked out and here was the effects of the weather working against me, a 20 min ride to the train station and then I'd have to bike to the venue from The Hague train station. These were both local bands and neither was particularly amazing. Secondhand Superheroes reminded me of a Dutch version of Mustard Plug, straight out of 1998. So I found a shelter for refuge from the hurricane to see if it would die down, I waited about 10 minutes of hoping it would go away and this lady then needed to turn into the driveway so I was out of luck I tried it one more time but it was miserable, my jeans were soaked, I was cold, and I had stepped in a big puddle so my feet were soaked. I determined it was not worth it to battle the elements just to get to some small ska concert 30 minutes away by train, I gave up and went home, reluctantly but for the better. And that's the story of how the weather defeated me one Friday night. Then I came back to the computer to find a message from the Brits seeking to go out for drinks, but even they decided it was 'pissing down' so it's off to Windmill land tomorrow! And KRS-One on Sunday and Sublime in a couple weeks!