should I?

[fflo]

Should I go see Marshall Crenshaw Sunday night? I like him. I've always skipped it when he's been in town in whatever town I've been in. It's sorta middle-priced, for the Ark.


I'm just going so hog-wild enjoying life lately, and kinda going for it, even in consumer ways---I'm afraid I might be getting carried away. Karmically more than economically, even. Afraid something is surely going to bite me in the ass, and not just cuz life does that sometimes, but exactly because I've been enjoying myself. How fucked up is that? A little reflux of that ptsd flavor? Hell. Who knows.



I don't know all those records, but he's a good songwriter, and my hunch is he's fun live.

   
P.S./Edit: Click on this Marshall head for his interview with the World Socialist Web Site:
(I haven't read it yet myself; this is my way of bookmarking it for the weekend.)

Comments

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I often walk around thinking that if I tempt fate too much by being too lax about things or having too much fun--that I will surely get hit by a bus or have a heart attack or something. My therapist said that's normal for people in my situation; except I forgot to ask which of my many "situations" she was referring to.

When in doubt, I go with the old saying that says you regret the things you haven't done much more than the things you've done--even if they were not the most productive choices. So yeah man, go, have a ball, and buy a shirt. That's what concerts are for.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Dude... right on! And what is with that thinking, anyway? Is it a form of worrying, where worrying is an attempt to garner some sense of control, having felt as if things around were crazy out of control? as a kid, perhaps?

I'm staring right into your don't-stare-into-it icon... mezmerized.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i've had the whole thing down for a while too -- that either i must worry, or be deprived, or both, being that otherwise i will inevitably starve.

starvation is yet to happen, but it's a difficult habit to kick.

don't know the first thing about mr. cranshaw, but it sounds to me like you wanna go... so you probably should :).

[wednes.livejournal.com]

For me, I think it's an underlying feeling that I don't deserve good things. And that is early conditioning--totally taught behavior from my childhood.

Watch out for that icon, I've never done it, but they say staring into an eclipse is bad.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I teach astronomy. I'll ask my students if they've seen a partial solar eclipse (or the annular one that came through maybe 15 years ago). They tell me their teachers kept them inside and closed the blinds. @#$%^& superstitious teachers--can't be bothered to learn about safe solar viewing, and even think that the sun is somehow extra dangerous during an eclipse, like it puts out sinister eclipse rays or something.

So the kids are cut off from nature in yet another way.

Please pardon my hot-button rant.

(By the way, if the eclipse happens at the time of year when the trees are leafed out, just watch the dapples of sunlight under a tree. The dapples are pinhole images of the sun, and they will look like a hundred little eclipses as the moon covers the sun.)

[wednes.livejournal.com]

That was damn interesting. Thank you.

I vote "go! go!"

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

As I have found to my cost, the concerts you miss out on are the ones you think of most wistfully in the future.


And besides, yeah, life can karmically bite your butt when you've done something to enjoy yourself and spent money (let me tell you about the times...) but on the other hand, at least you'll have the cool memory and the teeshirt and life might just bite your butt anyway at any time. :-)

(or, in other words, T. says "GO FOR IT!!!!!")

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

I just got his self-titled album and it's really, really good. A few songs that I'd heard a lot, but didn't know he recorded. Plus, I know you like Jonathan Richman, and that's who he reminded me of most. I say go! Go now!

Or Sunday, if you must.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

Someday, someway, you've got to see Marshall Crenshaw.

[paperkingdoms]

Live music is pretty much always worth it... especially if the artist's good enough to make you agonize over the tickets. Go!

judging by the album covers

[atleastdefiant.livejournal.com]

i'll have to agree. do it--better still, go w/ a friend.