don't let the sun go down on me

 

i love live performances.  i watch a lot of it on youtube.  be it music & poetry readings.  i prefer going to see bands/musicians in person, of course.  the energy one gets from the band that then feeds the band to take it higher is like going to church.  in the phrase of the late sly stone, live music can take you higher.  poetry readings too.  except that i find my poetry reading nourishment more on youtube than in person.  but nothing beats a good poet reading well in person.  it can take you higher.  so then, i have a couple of live performances to look forward to this month.  my mother-in-law & i will see humorist david sedaris this sunday.  i have been a big fan of sedaris for well over 30 years.  i remember the first time i read his essay, 'Diary of a Smoker' about the history of cigarette smoking in his family.  when he said that he had a picture of his mother breastfeeding his sister, while pregnant with another sister, then leaning forward toward the held zippo to light the cigarette between her lips i busted out laughing, & i felt seen!  i come from a family of smokers too.  later this month anna & will head over to the Crest Theater to see andy bell, the singer for the wonderful technopop duo, Erasure, who will perform solo.  dude has a magnificent set of pipes.  but i am bummed that the great rockabilly band, The Stray Cats, have cancelled their tour because of brian setzer's chronic illness.  we had tix to see the Cats later this month at the Hard Rock in wheatland.  i am, as i've stated before, at heart a greaser/hippie/punk, & i love, really love, rockabilly.  i saw the Cats, with my brothers, in 1983 at the Memorial Auditorium.  the doowop group, 14 Karat Soul, opened for them.  it was a killer show.  here's to brian setzer getting well soon.   praise be for live music & live poetry readings.  which have sustained me & continues to nourish me as i stare at my years of a, so far, not so short a life.  i am, after all, looking down the barrel of 60 years on this green & blue rock.  so, in the words of elton john, don't let the sun go down on me.  not yet, at least.  for their will be another show to see.

peace & love