today was my last day of house-sitting in both oakland and lafayette. i was watching kill bill vol. 2 for the first time since i saw it in the theatre this evening while i whiled away the hours before i could depart from o-town. this was after i fell asleep for 4 hours in the middle of the day when i was supposed to be attending matt’s birthday party. (matt – i am so so sorry! i will put your present in the mail though and when you get it, you will totally forgive me).
back to kill bill, the scene where budd and elle talk about whether she feels regret or relief struck me as i walked away from the oakland apartment door for the last time. was i feeling regret or relief? and which one more? and would i have to get bit in the face by a black mamba for the truth to come out? the answer to that last one had better be ‘no’. but i was feeling a little bit of regret about my performance in oakland and the last view of those dogs that i will carry with me. sure, i hated them, but also maybe a small part of me wanted to love them. as i want to love all fuzzy things. so maybe i did like them a little as my relief at being out of that crappy apartment does seem a trifle tinged with regret.
which is not to say that i will ever, EVER agree to house-sit there again. EVER.
in lafayette, i feel relatively certain that i will be seeing katie and sarah the cats again when the home-owners leave to go shoot more things in africa. so there was very little regret there. mostly regret over the pool. but the lack of floaties in the pool made the parting a little less sorrowful. my sadness at never having rocked out to the ben folds songs, ‘zak and sara’ and ‘kate’ while staying there, however, is immense. i could have held up the little paws and made them dance around with me to their songs. i probably would have gotten some severe scratches for my trouble.
tonight, perhaps in celebration of being done with oakland, i spent the evening at the KALX radio station with gene. there is the normal, every-day gene who i know, and then there is apparently the much more exciteable DJ gene who is only trotted out on rare occassions. thus, my time at KALX was a whirlwind of me tracking wild-time gene with my eyes while my mouth remained slightly open in shock. at one point he asked why i was being so quiet and i had no response but, “guh gug eep.” which loosely translated means, “run around some more and find cds and coach spazzy tech guys and uber-late cute band boy from lafayette and be all hyper-alert and i will sit here with my head on my arms and watch.” all around, it was good times and i enjoyed the live band performance by ‘love like fire’ very much. particularly the members from lafayette and boston. ho ho ho.
yeah #1 again
It sounds like you should look into becoming a DJ so you can hang around all those bands some more. I think you would have fun for at least a little bit.
What Lafayetter parts of Love Like Fire? I thought I might know someone, but they all appear to be from elsewhere.
david. though he didn’t have that much hair in current day reality. i don’t know why his hometown is listed as in wisconsin. maybe he moved to lafayette when young? and, seriously, theodore’s looking good. plus, i automatically have a crush on anyone named theo. i don’t know why. fyi, i’m getting all this info from the band website.
gene and i are going to see them (i think) when they play in SF on july 27th. you should come. as should anyone else who’s interested.
Well, you redeemed yourself. The present both rocked, and arrived on my actual birthday, which is way better than arriving during some fake weekend birthday celebration. But now chances are much slimmer that masses of people will get to see your handiwork. And with that, I will say in my best New York voice, “Bitch! You need a face-lift!”