Saturday night; i went out to Annie's social hall on Saturday night with my buddy Dave, i knew it was joy division/cure night but what i didn't realise there would be tribute bands! I've been craving some live music for ages! i backed out of several gigs lately; "stereolab", "the bird and the bee" and "this charming band" so i was really ready to get my fix. i call them tribute bands and not cover bands because the lead singers "became" Ian Curtis and Robert smith, the Robert smith dude was pre-bloated Robert smith (in case you need me to paint a mental picture for you), it was really really good and, i got there in time to hear my fave JD tune "transmission", i think that's what it's called. the other entertainment for the evening was co-worker/associate Jeff, when sober he is funny as hell, but faded he's a whole different person, in between songs, after the applause had died down, he insisted on voicing his opinions on the band; "these guys suck!", "the singer has no energy!" etc. to avoid being guilty by association i vacated to the bar. it turned out to be an amazing night.
Sunday night my friend came over, I made dinner and we watched the Monica Vitti film, it was pretty good, there was a few scenes which i found to be pointless or at the very least longer than they needed to be, pretty much any scene shot in the stock market building was unnecessary and added nothing to the film, but, i did like the way the rest of it played out, Italy in the early 60s is a trip, architecturally speaking. The style back then was amazing, men in suits and Vitti looking drop dead gorgeous as always. my friend didn't care for the film much, which is now the second film I've picked out that she didn't like, the first one being Godard's "Le chinoise", which actually was a complete turd of a film.
Monday... today i met up with Dave for brunch, Dave, by the way, is my best friend here in the City, so you'll be hearing about him quite a bit as we run around a lot. anyway, we had a nutritious and delicious brunch at IHOP on Lombard street, we had a good time talking about our usual topics of conversation, women being one recurring topic. our waitress was this unconventionally beautiful Russian chick; "Natalya". i kinda think eastern European (Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian etc.) women are gorgeous, especially in a no nonsense, take no shit, keep me in line, let's roll our sleeves up and get it done, kinda way. we tried to guess what her hobbies and interests were, Dave came up with "disassembling and reassembling world war one rifles" and i came up with "separating wheat from chaff" we were pissing ourselves laughing. there were others but... you had to be there.
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