Tom’s A Bitch

I don’t like to talk about it, but I have a MySpace account because a girl at a concert once asked me if I had one and I didn’t. I still got her number, but, you know, I figured I should still sign up. I don’t use it except to accept people who “friend” me (and I really have no idea how they find me, because I have no idea how to find other people), and I have something like 13 friends.

My friends are a motley crew of random people from school, random people from rural Iowa who saw my location and decided to friend me, people from high school, and people from my younger brother’s circle of friends; and today, the band Rainer Maria joined up by friending me.

Seeing a MySpace email in my inbox this morning wasn’t too shocking. It happens all the time, after all. But the subject like read something like, “Rainer Maria wants to be your friend” — which was totally cool. I accepted their friendship because I’ve seen them live, I kind of like their music (although I list them as one of my favorite bands in MySpace for some reason, and that might not be accurate these days), and I have had a crush on the female vixen, Caithlin De Marrais, since freshman year of college (when I saw them).

I’m not sure if I’ll like their new music, because it seemed to be getting a little Something Corporate-y on their last album. Songs like “Artificial Light” and “The Contents of Lincoln’s Pockets” — from A Better Version of Me — are what got me into them, and perhaps you should all listen to those tracks.