so...

[arguchik]

the bobs, at the triple door, earlier this evening.

not so much, thanks for asking. (and in case, like me, you had to ask, "what are the bobs?": they are an a capella quartet.)

i'm thinking "never again." beautiful venue, though. don't order the bread--it's more like pancakes (sweet and pasty). unless you like that sort of thing.

they did a rendition of cream's "white room." (which i always think is by jethro tull, for some reason. it just *sounds* like a tull song to me. fortunately i realized my mistake before blogging about it...thanx glaucon)

i knew i was in trouble when, in response to my question (see above), a friend described them as "zany."

the closest they got to an adult theme was the last song, which had some weird, veiled reference to marijuana.

which reminds me of a conversation i had recently with another friend...

and on that note, i'm going to bed. went to the olympus spa down in tacoma today. soaked in hot tubs, ate korean food, napped on the nice warm floor, got a body scrub (not necessarily in that order). now, after a painful evening, i'm hitting the hay.

p.s. and then there's this (for aquarius, courtesy of my yahoo and astrology.com):

Relationships are tricky right now, especially new and untried ones. Someone may want an answer stat, and you're not exactly sure you've got one ready. Don't force yourself to respond.

good advice. eerily appropriate. i think i'll take it.

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[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

I saw The Bobs about ten years (and a couple of personnel changes) ago at the defunct Backstage in Ballard. I seem to remember some adult themes, but "zany" would've been their dominant character then, too. I liked the show, but I was rather into a capella and so-called vocal bands at the time. You shoulda heard them do "Psycho Killer" and "Come Together" — it was zany! ;)

At the time, I was a sound engineer for a do-wop group, and all the people I knew who liked The Bobs were also involved in a capella (mostly vocalists). Oh, plus one, but she was dating an a cappella vocalist (http://www.singers.com/trenchcoats.html) at the time.

I got an alert today that Venus is headed into retrograde, that it will linger an extra long time in Capricorn (my sun sign), and that as a consequence I should spend the next two or three months looking inward to examine what I really need outta Love rather than trying anything romantic. At the very least, I'm to avoid any major decisions.

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

No evidence (http://www.last.fm/user/beneluxboy) of me playing The Bobs lately, though.

I'm glad to know Venus is supporting my current inclinations.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

(yeah...i like some a capella stuff, but i didn't like the bobs. i can imagine a group like that being more fun--and i *definitely* admire good a capella, but i found much of their schtick tired.)

interesting. i would have thought venus in your sun sign would mean...love will predominate in your life, love will happen whether you want it to or not, whether you're "ready" for it or not. (huge disclaimer: my knowledge of astrology is that of a dilletante.)

funny, i think the same thing applies to love, that a friend of mine said about having a kid (he and his partner are expecting twins at the moment--due in april, a boy and a girl): "there's no such thing as a good time to have a kid. you just do it, and make it work."

having said that, i think it's good and mature and responsible to think about what your needs are, what works and what doesn't, in Love (you capitalize it...indicating a platonic essence, perhaps?). in my experience, this usually amounts to "learning from past missteps." and it is dangerous to go careening through life without examining such things. however, i also think it's dangerous to get to rigid with it, to compose huge laundry lists of desirable traits, deal breakers, and 10-year plans, because sometimes what you *actually* want and need is quite different from what you *think* you want and need (which is always filtered somewhat through what you think you *should* want and need). (i said something very similar to this in an email to a friend, not too long ago...)

the bottom line for me, or What I Have Learned About Relationships (fwiw, and ymmv a *lot*, of course): it's always a negotiation, give and take, evolution, adjustment, trying to find a balance point between comfort and discomfort, challenge to be "better" or to grow as a person, and the freedom to just be your bad self. acceptance and appreciation of another human being's beauties and eccentricities (large and small), with a "healthy" dose of skepticism and confrontation when said eccentricities feel disrespectful, incommensurable with your own, or otherwise pathological.

it's easy, right? lol--what do i know, i'm divorced and single.