All Joy for Your Happy Weekend Amenity

[ltmurnau]

A nice weekend marred only by weird weather. After work on Friday I went to pick up Aki [oh yeah, I've been too busy having things happen to write about them - most of you know about this already but a quick recap: I moved out two weeks ago, living with Betty now. Papers aren't signed yet but a matter of time. I have no regrets except where Aki is concerned. Alea iacta est. Your mileage may vary. Screw you if it does beyond one standard deviation. No, not you, you over there.] and it was raining so hard I couldn't see the other side of the street clearly. Then it cleared up and got as cold as February. We had supper in Chinatown with Marc, who I have not seen in many years and who hadn't seen Aki since he was a little baby. Then we took the 70 out to Sayward and Gary picked us up, we hacked around building a little model of a Japanese destroyer and watching "Invasion Iowa", which was a pretty good joke. Aki loved petting the cats and dog, he isn't around animals much but really likes them, but later he got really itchy hands. Does this necessarily mean an allergy? He showed no other symptoms and never has, as far as I can recall.

In the morning we cast a few pieces in the workshop from some German aluminum molds I'd found and went into town for lunch. After won ton soup and an ice cream cone we went to the library to work on his project on comparative anatomy (humans vs. sting rays) for a bit. I took him home and went back to lay down for a bit before the big event Saturday night -

SHONEN KNIFE, LIVE IN VICTORIA AT LUCKY BAR!!!

It was great fun. I've been waiting to see them for about ten years, and every time they've been to Victoria I have missed them. I know it's only the beginning of April, but this was the best event I've seen all year. It was their last show of the North American tour - 29 shows in five weeks, and they were loud and fast and genki-ippai!

It was so crowded there wasn't room to do much more than bounce up and down, they played some new stuff but a lot of older favourites too - here is the setlist I can remember, in no particular order:

Konnichi Wa
Twist Barbie
Summertime Boogie
Map Master
Blue Oyster Cult
Bear up Bison
Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner song (two versions, fast and faster)
ESP
Tomato Head
Cobra vs. Mongoose
Riding on the Rocket (my favourite)
I Wanna Be Sedated
Rubber Band

... that's all I can remember for now.

Good Times.

Comments

[emmabovary.livejournal.com]

Wow! You did it!


All the best to all of you,
S.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

It was just a question of when. Aki seems to be taking it all right so far, but it's hard to tell.

Betty is walking on the ceiling, of course, and I suspect that I myself might perhaps be on the verge of approaching a state that could, in some respects, be called in same small way 'happiness'.

But it could be indigestion.

Thanks for all your support during this difficult time.

[inkie.livejournal.com]

Regarding the itchy hands, it could mean an allergy. But itchy hands without sniffley nose or itchy eyes is kind of odd. Makes me think it might be something one of the animals had in their fur. I'd be tempted to take him somewhere else with animals to see if it repeats.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

It might have been that. He was mostly petting the cat that goes outside - it might have had nettle stuff on its fur or something. I had him wash his hands with soap and water and put some ointment on them, and that seemed to work.

[seaofrain.livejournal.com]

shonen knife was here?

arrrgh i need to have a social life outside university.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

They've been here several times in the last ten years. I had to miss them several times before finally getting to see them. Sorry, if I had been posting more often this week I probably would have mentioned it, and you would have seen it in reading my LJ (that is, if you pay any attention to it at all!).

[seaofrain.livejournal.com]

yeah..I know. I hardly ever read lj entries anymore.

where do you live now?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I live in Fernwood, near the Belfry theatre. Aki is leaving in July, and then I will move back into my house. So the Tuvan Independence Day festivities will take place on schedule.

COOL

[tartarisaws.livejournal.com]

sounds fantastic! i've always wanted to see shonene knife, but in myu imagination they always play "I Like Chocobars" ;9~

Re: COOL

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Thye didn't play that, but they did play some other stuff from "Baka Guy".

[xplodingsilence.livejournal.com]

OMG, you did it...... I must admit, I'm a bit flabbergasted at the moment. I don't know you for so long, but I had never thought that it would go so quick. How do you feel now?

Shonen knife...I didn't know they still existed?????

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Well, without giving you unnecessary details, my marriage has been over for years and we've been making serious plans to separate for over a year and a quarter. You just came in at the last act of the play.

How do I feel - hard to say, I feel bad about what my son must be going through but I also feel good about changing my life (and eventually his) for the better.

Shonen Knife has been around for about 20 years. The drummer was new, I think, but the two guitarists are originals. The bassist (who used to be the drummer) made the costumes they wore on stage herself. I like touches like that.