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sunday, october 4, 1998, 02:56 now, while technology is a wonderful thing and now allows me to update my web page from anywhere in my apartment that i can get my ethernet cable stretched out to, and while i can't help but tell all of my dork friends all of the fun that i've been having my computer(s) all night, art just makes me go all gushy inside. tonight, I was once again touched by the power of live music. and while there really isn't much for me to say here, since i wasn't there for the entire concert and my mind was in other places, nothing could mean more to me that standing up on top of a wobbly bench in the theatre watching three bands playing for an audience of fewer than a hundred people and watchin those people, watching the bands, listening, feeling the music. and as silly as this sounds, becuase this does sound awfully silly, there really is something magical about watching a cellist, drummer, and two guitarists stand up on stage and produce music. good music, bad music, it doesn't matter (much). what's really important is the fact that there is creation going on there. of course it's that piled on top of the fact that i am super-jealous of people with musical talent. because i tried. however many years of piano and violin later and i still can't read music and i still can't even bang out chopsticks on the keyboard. so instead what i do (or have been doing because i probably think it helps in some weird psychological way) is go to these concerts just for the experience of being around people who can create music. 'course the weird part about all of this is the fact that these concerts that i often end up at are more of the indie music scene which i have nothing to do with other than the fact that i help run the theatre where the performance is happening. so on top of all this *swoon* music stuff is this sense of boyidon'tbelonghere. of course that passes fairly quickly. you know, music and all. this account is really more of what i feel rather that how i actually felt on this occassion since tonight i spent most of the night in the office listening to the music through the thin plaster walls which make up our theatre and instead spent my time cleaning up the mess which has been accumulating over the past couple of years. but all that stuff about the magic of music. i'm down with that.
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