Confirmed: Bright Eyes Smokes Doob

Bright Eyes played a show in Kansas City last week. Conor Oberst, lead singer/dictator, went to high school with a friend of a friend. While in DC, I brunched with the classmate and others. The conversation was approximately:

KAT: You eat eggs but not meat? Weird.

FRIEND OF CONOR: It's a pretty common thing. It's called ovo-lacto-vegetarianism. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.

(Bright Eyes comes up for some reason. I continue to eat outstanding french toast.)

FRIEND OF CONOR: Actually, I was vegetarian before Conor was. He would make fun of me for smoking pot and for being vegetarian, and then a while later he started smoking and became vegetarian.

ZACH: I'll bet he didn't fuck Winona Rider until you did, too.

(Laughter. Other, less hilarious jokes in the same vein followed, i.e. "Conor didn't sing in a plaintive falsetto until you did.")

I'm not a huge fan of the man, but some of his stuff tickles my fancy. Free downloads are available if you're curious.