Steve and I went to see English Beat last night at the Raven in Healdsburg. Very small venue, less than 500 seats, nothing fancy but because of its size, you are close to the stage and there's not a bad seat in the place. Of course, with a Ska band like English Beat, many seat were never occupied, people gathered up front and just danced the 90 minutes while they played.
And "play" is the operative word here. If you ever have the chance to see this group, do it. They are so happy to be on stage and making their brand of music and funneling it out to the crowd, there is no way to not come away grinning. They love what they do and the crowd loves it as well. It was a blast.
Standing in line, waiting for the doors to open, I struck up a conversation with a very cute woman about ..... many things. One was about the English Beat song "Mirror in the Bathroom" which, of course, leads one to cocaine on a mirror in a bathroom. This woman, let's call her Mildred, or Milly for short, was lamenting the fact that at her age, a ripe old 50 years old, she needs reading glasses to see the lines of cocaine on the mirror in the bathroom! And how old does that make a person feel, you can't even do blow without your readers! It was at that point she realized it was time to stick to things that didn't need magnification, in other words alcohol or small pills, but even then she commented ".... and I had to touch the friggin pills in the palm of my hand to see if there were two or three of them, I couldn't see them without putting on my glasses which I was not going to do at a nightclub!"
She had a very salient point. Wear the glasses all the time, get contacts or just stick with something you can see. At least with a glass of wine or whiskey or vodka, you can tell when the glass is empty and then it's time to stop.
Great night, great band, lovely venue and what a tank of fun! Dance your way into happiness, nothing wrong with that!
"Mirror in the bathroom
Recompense
For all my crimes
Of self defense
Cures you wiser
Make no sense
Drift gently into
Mental illness...."
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Interesting thing about needing glasses as you get older.....if you develop cataracts when they operate to remove them they can implant lens so you don't need glasses! Guess what Diane is having done next month!
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