Extispicy: How Sentimental

March 01, 2003

How Sentimental

A couple of nights ago, I went with my friend Dave (inspired by the fact that we've been bonding for weeks now on old 80s music and other such nostalgia) to go see Camper Van Beethoven who played at Bimbo's. It was a blast, and Camper Van Beethoven was really good -- sometimes, ya know, those reunion of the old band incarnation shows can suck. But they didn't. They were really amazing.

They did a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" that I'd never heard them do before and it was really bizarrely wonderful. But they really have always had a way with twisted covers.

When they did their song "Take the Skinheads Bowling," couldn't help being reminded of my dead friend Norman (due to the fact that I remember being stuck in a car with Norman one drunken night years and years ago where we were waiting for the others to return from where they went a-romping, and Norman and I entertained each other by drunkenly singing that song to each other loudly ...hehehe.)

I used to go see bands all the time back in the 80s. I so rarely do anymore. Did happen to see Daniel Ash last year when I was in New Orleans, but nothing in between. It usually just seems like too much trouble and I don't even really pay much attention to what's going on out there in more recent days at all. Gettin' old or lazy, I guess. But this was a definitely amusing outing and felt even a little revived from it. Somehow, I'm half-enjoying and half-frightened of this little inadvertent nostalgia trip I keep going on lately -- some of which has been half-provoked by Dave, as he keeps telling me nostaglic bits from his misspent youth ..... while playing me Flipper ("Sex Bomb Baby, yeah!") and the Beat Farmers, for god's sake.

But, actually, can't totally blame him, as come to think of it, just about everybody I know who was cognizant during that time period seems to be indulging in something like this lately. What's the deal? Is it time for the punk big chill or some other sort of ice age or something? Oh, please, no.

Whatever it is, it's starting to drive me slightly insane as I keep wondering if my life is flashing before my eyes or if I'm just having flashbacks? Both, probably. But I'm probably actually just perimenopausal or something.

Anyway, dizzy from these fumes of nostalgia, I went digging through some old photos again and just added a couple new pages to my Misspent Youth photo pages. The ones I just added are Proto-bat (photos of me from 1983) and Living at Night Isn't Helping My Complexion. (photos of Norman, Lorrainne, and moi from 1986).

Well, to quote something else from ancient days, like Magenta would say: "How sentimental ......"

Yup. 'Tain't it?

Sigh.

Posted by m bat on March 1, 2003 10:30 PM | TrackBack
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Comments

I missed Daniel Ash when he was in Orlando last April. I was at work or in class or had a headache or I am too darn old so I am turning into a fssil.

*/not jealous really :{ */

Posted by: Andrea Harris on March 6, 2003 11:50 AM

It was last April that I saw him in New Orleans, so that must have been the same tour you didn't get to see. I guess it would be very rude of me to mention it was a good show then, now, wouldn't it?

Of course, since I don't go to shows anymore -- being somewhat fossilized myself (or maybe I'm just merely indifferent) -- I tend to be fairly easy to amuse these days.

heh.

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