so, yeah, i went dancing last night. there was an overnight party as a consequence of the mini-movement (charivari) festival, and it might be the last really nice saturday overnight we get, unless we get some more intense hurricanes, which i don't think anybody really wants. i'm happy we got a summer in the end due to the ocean patterns dominating for a while, however short it ends up being; it didn't really click in until the last week of june, and it looks like it's going to fall off about mid-week. so, that's 5-6 weeks of actual summer. we can have nice days lingering into october or sometimes even november here, but the actual summer heat starts to lift at the start of september, so if the long range is saying it's going to dip a little cooler for the end of august then there's not much chance of a return to seriously hot summer weather for the year. don't misunderstand me - it's not going to snow this week. but, that might have been the last late saturday / early sunday where the low is above 20 degrees celsius.

so, we got one more nice weekend in, and i decided not to waste it...

my plan was that i wanted to hit a space rock act early called brujas del sol, then head to the dance party (which ran until 9:00 am). but, i expected the space rock band to be on a little later, so i thought i might check something out down the street, then come back. so, i showed up at trixie's around 22:00, and was told they just finished, meaning they played first in a four bill act (despite being advertised as a co-headliner). this is why you should post set times, bar owners.

so, i went to the outer limits and caught the end of an early floyd style act called astral hand, and the entirety of a set by a band called midas, that was probably trying to sound like judas priest but i think actually sounded a bit more like hawkwind. while i'll take 70s or 80s metal over contemporary metal any day, the reality is that i'm not particularly knowledgeable about metal of any period, and while it wasn't something i'd take an initiative to listen to or check out further, they had a few moments and were entertaining to watch.

and, then i danced until 9:00 am.

hey, listen. there's two famous quotes.

1) "i want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.", often apocryphally attributed as "if i can't dance, this is not my revolution".
2) "'cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, then they're no friends of mine."