Staying up past our bedtime

I don't know who Tim and I think we are but we've gone out for the last two nights! And have gone to bed after 11 p.m.!! It's madness.

Monday night we went to the Fillmore Theater - yes Bob (Tim's dad), we went to the Fillmore! Haven't you been talking about that for a while to us now? My friend Troy is a big fan of Robert Cray so we went along with him to the concert. Very cool venue and Robert Cray was amazing and Keb Mo (opener) just as good. I've never been to a blues concert so this was cool.

Of course it couldn't just be a nice concert for us though. Apparently Troy is a dufus magnet and these two guys who were doing the "sprinkler" and other stupid "dance" moves at a blues concert! were always right in front of Troy and kept invading his personal space. Even when we going out the door they were in front of him. Weird. One guy kept bumping into Troy - not cool.

I had never heard of the "sprinkler" until Tim and Troy (two white guys, go figure) told me about it. Apparently it's a "dance move" where you stick your arm out bent and jerk your upper body from left to right...like a sprinkler. There is also something called the "lawn mower". I'm not sure the two dufuses were doing that move too but apparently there is a whole world of dance that I am not acquainted with...thank goodness.

At first I thought...hmmmm, they are extremely affectionate with each other. They were all over each - mostly talking about god knows what so that meant going up close and shouting in each other's ears. Maybe they're a couple I think. But I looked at their shoes - grubby, hair cuts - they needed a shave in the back, and they were saying the stupidest hetero things. And I guess the whole sprinkler thing would automatically make them hetero.

Okay, I think - I guess they must be EXTREMELY drunk. For hetero guys to be touching each other as much as they were I'm guessing they were on something or drunk out of their minds. If you're doing the "sprinkler" at a blues concert you better be really drunk or else a dumba#$. They were the latter.

They were not only invading Troy's personal space but everyone else around them. I soon became distracted by them and Robert Cray & Keb Mo soon became background music as I watched the train wreck of the two dufuses in front of me.

Every time someone came close enough to the two dufuses they would talk to them. I thought they were trying to hit on people but instead they were trying to see if they had pot. They kept mooching hits off of other people. One would think that this would make them mellower but it just made them stupider. Is it stupider or more stupid? Either way - they got worse as the night went on. People who were good enough to share their pot with them moved further away after a while while the three of us (me, Tim and Troy) were stuck in this weird vortex in back of the two dufuses and couldn 't get away from them.

Even when we thought they would be moving away and did at times, they somehow found their way back. I blame Troy. Usually it would be me, but I think it was Troy.

That was Monday night. After three hours of standing up we were exhausted. Poor Tim. For being as young as he is he sure acts like an old man. When we got back home he was complaining about his back, his feet and half way through the show started looking at his watch as if it would somehow speed up time. He enjoyed the show but I guess it was a little too long for the old man. We're also both extremely ADD so staying for a whole show was a stretch for us but we had a good time.

Tuesday night we went to see Tim's cousin wife Frannie in a show. She's an actress so it was fun to see someone we knew. The venue was teeny-tiny, maybe it sat 30 people. Loved it. The show was sketch comedy. Funny. There were times when I thought, should I be laughing about a skit about a fetus?! Whatever, we had a good time.

It was good to get out and see the city a bit more. The theater was in the Tenderloin, i.e., ghetto, but it really wasn't all that bad. Everyone says how scary and dangerous it is but we were just fine.

We're getting to see more and more here and we continue to love it. I'm gonna go practice the sprinkler now.