Sinister: Point-counterpoint-countercounterpoint: Rimini

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Point:
This is now billionth-hand news, but I am finally able
to post and so I must say that, as reported by
Idleberry and so many others, the Usher Hall gig was
nice. That is understatement. Just as nice (also
understatement) was the meet-up ahead of time. It was
my second B&S “picnic” (“quotes” because most 
“picnics” don’t usually take place inside hundreds and
hundreds of “pubs” or fail to include “durians”) but
it was my first picnic-AND-gig suite, so it was all
especially fabulous. I especially enjoyed my brief
chats with everyone who was so nice as to not mock my
accent TOO much: in particular, Sweetie, Will, Andy,
Idles and Jeremy, briefly, and Gordon, a bit more
extensively. I made up for the little time I spent
with Jeremy by meeting up to see Sodastream with him
and his crowd in London last Saturday, and that was
great, too, though it was an early evening as I had to
fly out the next morning, which I did.

I first heard “Waking Up To Us” in Usher Hall,
although I did buy the disc in Edinburgh, finally, it
not being widely available in The Former Yugoslavia,
but I didn’t really get the words until driving down
the M1 towards London last Friday. I am struck not
only by how jaded the lyrics are, but by how accurate.
This song basically describes my current relationship,
yet rather than making me cry, it gives me strength.
Okay, not very much, but still. The “we’re a disaster
part”, like it’s a sudden revelation, is especially
meaningful to me. In my case, the disaster is not
helped by 10,000 km of distance. Too much information.
And by the way, I love my car, too.

Counterpoint:
After ten days in the UK, returning to work is hell.
Tempting it is to give details, but couldn’t you all
(those who are working, anyway) say the same? Forget
it. All is grey. And yet


Counter-counter-point:
The threat of being deported has receded lo unto the
horizon, if not beyond! My residence visa for Slovenia
has been approved, and I’ve been given Friday off to
fetch it, in Trieste, about an hour away. Not
coincidentally (okay, a little coincidentally, I
suppose, but it’s a damn fine coincidentality), I have
a ticket to see B&S play in Rimini, a few hours
further down the Adriatic coast, this Saturday night.
So I get to lie in a bit Friday, leave the country
again, get legal, have a lovely drive down the coast
and a long weekend, AND see our favorite band, all at
once. Life is good. At least until Monday.

Is anyone who has read this far going to the gig in
Rimini? Please please please per piacere email me. We
can have a little grappa-based picnic. Life can only
get better.

Cheers, and thanks again to all who made my UK jaunt
so memorable and twee--

JDS



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