The Things You Don’t Know
“Like semaphores only without the flags.”
Wow. I just spent a great night hanging out with a friend with whom I went to high school (and his wife) and found out that our other classmate (who’s also married) is in a band that, no only have I heard of and bought albums from, but a lot of other people have heard of and bought albums from. I had not seen either of them for 15 years.
Then we went to see the friend and his wife’s friend’s band, Fall On Your Sword, at Hugs (where I’d never been before, which was actually a decent venue, though one of the bathrooms was near the stage which reminded me of Brownies, R.I.P.) They had a dance-punk sound ala The Faint or The Rapture or !!! with a lot of disco beats and ’twas a lot of fun.
The other band that played was The Most Holy Trinity. Not so much with them. For starters, we didn’t realize they’d begun to play, we thought it was still the between sets filler music. Then we noticed they were dressed in matching leotards or something. And had synchronized arm movements. Like semaphores only without the flags.
We fled to Pete’s Candy Store to meet up with more of their friends. I realized that I was a) fairly intoxicated and b) had to work the next day, so I bid a fond adieu for the moment. I think I talked equally as much with his wife as I did with him. They are both great people.
15 years = nothing. Our friendship picked right up where we’d left off.
Now listening to:
Now reading:
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- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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