Never forget it's a small world.
Just found out my ex-girlfriend from 30 years and over a thousand miles away now lives 20 miles from where my wife and I now live.
It ended badly, but I weirdly ended up friends with her brother and his friends and friends of those friends and rarely saw her.
And found out her current partner used 2 friends of ours for models for stained glass panels in a church.
I wouldn't believe this in a novel.
Buddy Guy
Parliament Funkadelic (Amazing. Just amazing).
Daikaju (many times. Always fun.)
Man or Astroman?
Pinehill Haints (rockabilly Americana band. Catchy lyrics and tunes).
Elton John (yes, he was as good as you think).
Tickets were starting to get out of our price range 15 years ago, *really* out of our price range now.
I hate ticketmaster.
4/4
Linda Wood (fantastic vocals. Heard several times at Open mic shows and more).
Soul Coughing
They Might Be Giants
Dead Elvis
Dead Milkmen (fantastic show!)
Marcy's Playground
Phil Weaver/Ingrid Van Spakovsky (Classical music. Not usually my thing live, but they were great).
Blue Savoy Combo
Old Crow Medicine show (This one surprised me because I thought it was a little local band, but was much more).
Southern Culture on the Skids (Very fun)
3/4
Trip to Argentina
Hoodoo Gurus (college show where they gave their all. Not the right audience that time, but they were great).
The Drovers
Concrete Blonde (Best performance I ever saw. Right audience for the right band at the right time).
The Godfathers
Bo Diddley (nice to talk with as he was on the same bench with me before playing. Had no idea who he was at the time. I learned).
2/4
Bands and/or musicians I've seen live, in chronological order as best as I can remember. Most have name recognition, some I just saw locally.
The first 4 were all together. I was taken there in college when my friends discovered I'd never been to a rock show.
Leon Redbone
The Turtles (they were so funny!)
The Grass Roots
Gary and The Playboys
B.B. King
Noel Cooney (fun audience participation and Irish songs).
Microwave Dave and the Nukes
1/4
First 10 on chronological order.
1. Leon Redbone
2. The Turtles (they were so funny!)
3. The Grass Roots
4. Gary and The Playboys
5. B.B. King
6. Noel Cooney (fun audience participation and Irish songs).
7. Microwave Dave and the Nukes (great blues!)
8. Trip to Argentina
9. Hoodoo Gurus (college show where they gave their all. Not the right audience that time, but they were great).
10. The Drovers
It was disturbing to find out a "goth" person I knew who was man who often wore a skirt last millenia is now a full blown racist trump cultist with the mental disconnect to blame *the people affected* by the DEI grant destroying bullshit for his losing his grant and job.
More disturbing is that this description fits more people than I thought it would.
Never diagnosed as such, but damn this is familiar.
"...entire systems to treat autistic people as unreliable witnesses to their own lives. And the cost is high."
I was blamed for so many things that I wasn't even a party to, just a convenient victim for liars.
I really dislike what my brain still tells me even after years of therapy.
An acquaintance told me the other night "Thank you for existing."
So *of course* I thought it was some kind of weird insult.
Stupid brain.
They were validating me.
Some day I'll *feel* that for real.
Read this toot, and thought "how nice that they're getting plants for baby spiders, I'm sure they'll appreciate growing into them as homes.'
@[email protected] @[email protected] We have a million baby spider plants now, after a brought home a coulle from a craft sale at the local church! #MakersHour
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