Seemed like we got most of our snow early this morning; woke up late in the morning to an extra foot or so — it made the walk to work beautiful, but slow. As I’m writing this, huge construction vehicles are toiling noisily outside my the window down at the intersection of McEntire and Preston.

As near as I can tell, the only other places open downtown this afternoon are the Mudhouse and Christian’s. (The good news is I was able to get a slice for lunch, the bad news is that their cheese pizza is still some of the worst cheese pizza I’ve had outside of a Chuck E Cheeze’s.  What the heck happened to that place? It’s been dreadful ever since they opened all those new locations a few years ago… it used to be the best Pizza in town, as good as the genuine NYC stuff.) {UPDATE: apparently Café Cubano is open as well, and so is the West Main restaurant.}

Anyhow, I’m pleased to report that the show at Random Row tonight, billed as the Armageddon Community Roundtable, is still happening! It’s a Charlottesville synth-noise supergroup of sorts, featuring Chris Balint and John Bowman from Nectar Bats (formerly known as Mondo), Adam Smith from Great Dads (he’s also in Invisible Hand), Scott Ritchie from Myceum (he’s also in the Raquellos), Dylan Mulshine from Rhythm Bandit, and… I’m not even sure who else. They’ve been jamming together a lot recently, but this is their first public performance as an ensemble. It’s either gonna be a carefully orchestrated symphony of heavily fx-ed synthesizer tones, or a complete gibberish mish-mash of improvisation (or, most likely, somewhere inbetween.)

Either way, it should be really fun. If you are a fan of any of the acts above, or if you enjoyed the Charlottesville Experimental Music Showcase at The Bridge a while back… or if you’re just looking for something fun to do on a snowy Saturday night, then come check it out! It’s at 9pm, and the cover is $5 (in case you can’t tell from the poster):

{UPDATE: Thomas is also DJing again at The Box tonight; should be a nice after-party for the Random Row show, which I don’t expect will run too late.}