Thank God it's This Kind of Friday

This is my idea of a night: heading straight from work to a jamming studio that you haven't been to before, and realising it's easily the best of the four you've been to so far. Focusing on a single song, listening to the riffs your lead guitarist has come up with and discussing the transition to the chorus with your drummer. Laughing with your bandmates as each take falls apart.

Calling your other friends whom you planned to join for drinks after the jamming session, and finding out they are already calling it a night. Deciding, on the spur of the moment, to grab two beers from the nearest 7-eleven and downing them with your drummer on the steps of the old Supreme Court building. Discussing the band's future and various personal issues while watching the cars pass. Leaving the cans behind and running to catch the last bus / train home.

The spontaneity; the escapism of it all. This kind of night is so simple and so easy to achieve, yet it took me years to find the right people to experience it with. But now that I've finally met them, there'll be many more yet.