Do you ever find yourself watching a band and thinking about your own level of coolness vis-à-vis that band? That used to happen to me pretty often when I was a kid -- when I had a soft, lumpy, unformed notion of what "cool" was. It doesn't really happen to me anymore. I've been around too much, and I've known too many people in bands. I've mostly stopped caring about my own coolness, and I've realized that most people in bands are big fucking dorks. But one night in Richmond last month, the old feeling came back. Spiritual Cramp were onstage, and I was thinking, "Damn, I should really try to be cool like these guys."