- Joy Division + pub + Monday night = awesome

- Don't leave your gym bag outside the gym where all the other bags are. Ignore the fact you've done this every day for the entire three years you've been going to that gym, just don't do it. Why? Because some cocksucker will steal your bag and, with it, your hand wraps, mouth guard, gloves, jeans, and Paul Frank special edition Pro Keds. And you will be heartbroken, so very, very heartbroken.

- A combination of Rogue Wave, Cocorosie, Madvillain and Cibo Matto makes darkroom time the happiest time of all.

- After a break up you may want to know all the gory details. The how, the why, the who, the where. The truth is you don't need to know, it won't make you feel any better to know, and thinking about such things will is only prodding at your poor shattered heart. These things are said with bitterest experience.

- Don't wear your incredibly hot and highly impractical new shoes to see a rather good band. You will become that girl standing off to the side, clinging to her jacket, looking perplexed and anxious.