evening in brief

memorial day coming up. what to do with a substantial brick of time once one finally gets it off of work? three days is not substantial, he knows....but it is has more substance than most other opportunities at this point. perhaps california is on the horizon; it's only ten hours away. 8.5 by matches' driving standards. how good it would feel to go back and haunt those places which he experienced under a shadow, now that day has broken. those are the sorts of opportunities which are best not passed upon.

colorful lights and interesting fabrics at this coffee shop (about to transform into a venue for sam cooper's purposes) make m realize that he need to do something more creative with his room. it isn't a very good representation, at the moment, of a place where it would be supposed that a person such as he would occupy for an undeniable portion of time. he saw on the internet the other day a faux-skylight that lights up and has clouds floating to and fro beyond it, for those without the means for a legitimate skylight installation. he would probably make the purchase if it had nighttime settings, complete with constellations and embracing spiral arms. turns out he is quite picky about his purchases....well, about a lot of things in life really. but he has been trying to make up his mind about a pair of windchimes on the east side of portland for a good four months now.

if there are two colors that play unexpectedly well with one another, they are an aqueous blue-green and a frosted purple-maroon (only ten or twenty percent maroon). he is seeing this color splash more and more recently (even shockingly at an art museum or two), and it always catches him off guard with its refined yet vibrant appeal. a good pairing.

arg sam playing.

update two days later: what a curious coincidence that a band from boulder would be playing at the same place as samtron. well, not entirely unexpected, as sam is from boulder. still, an oddity that they would happen to be on tour. high-energy. and what fortunate occurrences came from the walk back home...events which would not have happened had he decided to saunter over to ground kontrol and play pinball with christopher, as was originally on the itinerary. the most compelling things can happen from meeting absolute strangers. stopping a basketball-turned-soccer-ball-by-faculty-of-overactive-slash-tipsy-imaginations from careening into the street and getting flattened by oncoming traffic. it really makes one take a step back and think.