Stood up, met up, loved up
Mandy managed to stand me up on Tuesday - we'd agreed to head down to the quiz night at JJ Murphy's. Used to be quite a crowd from class that went along, but this time nobody at all turned up. Something tells me it's because we're at the sharp end of the term.
Fortunately, I ran into her the next night at the White Stripes, and she apologised and explained she had no memory of Saturday night. I didn't really, either, so it all seems fair. We ended up sitting upstairs in the Town Hall, feeling very old. (Her flatmates were downstairs in the mosh pit, laughing at the old people on the balcony). A few songs in the WS set she asked me to save her seat, then disappeared, and didn't come back for ages. I was just deciding that there was some very heavy symbolism here for how I relate to women (standing round holding things for them, while they gallivant off somewhere else) when she turned up again. With TWO beers. One of which she gave to me. I should probably try reading some symbolism into that.
The White Stripes rocked. That is all that needs to be said. They are pure rock n roll stars, obvious from the first moment they walked on stage. I'm not even a huge fan of their music, but they had me enthralled. Only downers were: they didn't play 'It's true that we love one another'....and they messed with 'Fell in love with a girl', turning it into a ballad. OK, they must be sick to death of playing it by now, but I had been hanging out for that song all night....
Thursday night sees me at the Roots concert. I'm there early, meeting up with T and her 'sexual guru' Ed. I'm not quite sure what being a sexual guru entails, but I have a fairly good idea ;-) Up early were Footsouljahs, followed by King Kapisi - two quality Welli hip hop acts that nearly made the night worth the $60 on their own. By the time Footsouljahs finished, we had lost Ed, and by the time Kapisi finished I had lost T. So I ended up spending the rest of the night watching the Roots on my own.
I'd never heard one of their songs before last night, but I think they have me converted. They play hip hop with funk influences and real instruments, and they're good. There's a definite P-Funk influence in there, both musically and satorially. Along with some 60s psychedelic soul. Definitely a good mix, but brought up to date by the hiphop side. Only downer was the long instrumental solos - I've still got enough of a punk bone in me to be bored by that sort of thing.
Weird experience of the night was about half way through. I was dancing, I'd been thinking a bit about Cory, lyrics to a song ran through my head ('Here we go' by Shelter), and all of a sudden, I closed my eyes and I felt like I was coming up. A tingle ran up my body, my head felt clear and all of a sudden I felt
good. Connected, happy. Hopeful. I don't know where it came from, but I danced in my inner world for about 5-10 minutes, all the time feeling
altered. Weird experience. Less good was the panic attacks I started getting - not bad, just feeling really claustraphobic - like there were too many people in the room.
Anyway, got the Smiths tribute gig at Indigo tonight which should be a momentous event. :-)
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