@haffard: of course lina is sweet.
last night i went to a club where a cover band played some 80's songs. they were ok, nothing special, and uproariously gay. in fact it was the occasion for a couple of observations.
first: people don't really listen to music at shows. you can see them either waving their hands around like malfunctioning lawnmowers, or standing in a corner bitching about everything from the noise to the suckiness level of the band. but they don't try and merge with the sounds, in the hope to get something out of the experience. i just have to assume most are like that when it comes to records too, and that's part of the reason why crappy bands tend to win: the time dedicated to actually
listening is null, and the time spent
reacting is 100%. i mean, i can try to blend in with a not-so-exciting version of tears for fears'
shout for a few minutes. it's still more interesting than complaining.
second, and this mostly goes out to
hyena: there was a tubby in the club (gothically dressed, dreamy eyes, blatant "i'm-fat-so-people-don't-like-me-so-i'm-a-goth" pose) whom i found attractive in an unexplainable way. i decided she should be my heather love for the night (!), which means i stood and stared trying to picture myself in the shoes of someone who had to give an explanation as to why he liked that girl. unsurprisingly, i couldn't. but while on the one hand i realised that it might indeed be problematic to find out details about what makes peculiar people attractive in our eyes, i still managed to come up with at least a partial list of features i found, broadly speaking, "pretty" about the occasional evil incarnate. such as: a stern, unrelenting expression in her eyes. an endearing smile. an evenness of skin. a motherly broadness of shoulders. now, clearly this is not enough to make me even
want to know someone better, but i was able to find out after all. and if i was, mr. r should be too. and if he is, he didn't tell. and if he didn't tell, he probably lied.
as a side note, an apartment in my building got flooded last night so we have no running water. well, we don't need no water, let the mot-- oh, you all would have cracked this joke so don't look at me like that now!
