Sinister: the picture grows clearer and clearer...from the front...to the back of my mind.

[Richard Gillanders]

I never thought I'd be a lurker.

I don't think I like the term 'lurker' anyhow.

as much as I don't think I like the term 'smoker'.


so.  a few things I thought about posting but never
did.  and probably for good reasons I can no longer
recall.

warning: THIS IS LONG-WINDED

         AND POINTLESS

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I went to see steve malkmus at the queen margaret
union.  a short [shorter than I], bald [quite, quite
bald], portly man with bushy eyebrows passed me by in
the foyer.  not really a foyer.  but.  and I think
'that's bill wells, isn't it?'.  but I can't be sure. 
except that it does look remarkably like bill wells. 
I forget about it and go and get a drink.

there are some young ladies I know that are in
attendance at the concert so I decide that following
them around would be preferable to sitting alone.  by
myself.  so we sit.  together.  and then move.  I
follow.  weaving through the crowd to find a
favourable position to view [and, of course, listen
to] the support band [lonecop] I step on a foot.   I'm
a nice person.  I had accidentally injured someone,
even if only very slightly, so I apologise.  but, for
some reason, I apologise in a rather queer manner.  I
look PAST the person I've tread on, smile and whisper
'sorry'.  by this time the girls have moved deep into
the crowd and I decide not to bother pursuing them.  I
stand back against the wall, beside the person I had
only just trampled.  I drink my pint.  

lonecop play.  a long, long first one.  a bow on an
electric guitar.  that's been done before.  I look
'round at the bloke and I think 'that's chris geddes,
isn't it?'.  but I can't be sure.  a man and a woman
pass me and maybe-geddes by.  maybe-geddes taps the
man's shoulder.  the tapped man turns and looks at me.
 I look at maybe-geddes and offer a half shrug.  he
sees maybe-geddes and erupts with greetings.  he's
conversing with maybe-geddes and, inbetween words,
shouts something at the lonecop, bow-wielding, singing
man.  the lonecop, bow-wielding, singing man is on the
defensive and immediately looks out into the audience
and says 'whit wis that?'.  the tapped man doesn't
anticipate this and continues talking to maybe-geddes,
not noticing the 'whit wis that?'.  the lonecop,
bow-wielding, singing man says 'okay then'.  the
tapped man turns and shouts again.  lonecop,
bow-wielding, singing man peers out into the crowd and
sees the tapped man and looks 'round at other members
of the band and says 'ahh, right'.  like he knows the
tapped man.  I forget about it and go and get a drink.

I return to my spot against the wall with a new drink.
 I look over to the side of the stage and notice
maybe-geddes chatting with the bill wells-a-like I had
noticed earlier.  I conclude that it probably is bill
wells and chris geddes.  I leave my spot and join the
girls at the front.  fun concert.  steve is kinda fun.
 but he mentions celtic as soon as he gets on stage. 
mistake.

afterwards I walk to the thirteenth note club and have
an enjoyable evening.

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I went to see hefner/camera obscura at the thirteenth
note club.  halfway through camera obscura's set I
turn around and see darren hayman behind me.  I laugh
at him.  he asks me if I want a fight.  I say I don't.
 we chat, briefly, and I realise I am very drunk.  I
decide to get another drink.  I spend the rest of the
concert seated.  trying to stay upright.  a few people
who had consumed as much, if not more, than I seemed
completely in control of most of their faculties.  I
was done.  afterwards I go upstairs and stand around. 
I have another drink.  for some [or no} reason. 
stuart murdoch is pointed out to me.  I mis-understand
what the pointer is trying to achieve for quite a
while.  stuart murdoch is wearing a striped t-shirt. 
horizontally striped.  I try to look sober and mention
that there's a man wearing a visor.  I leave.

_____________


and that's that.

I'll store up at least another two boring anecdotes
[is that oxymoronic?  probably just moronic] before I
attempt to post again.  yes.

thank you.
richard.

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