Impress Me Much

I had a party a couple of weeks ago, whatever.

I think my favorite part of the night was not actually the Flaming Puke, but the few minutes that i was in the velvet underground with some various people including the members of the band Janus.
Janus is a local Halifax band that plays now & then. My co-worker Dan is in the band. These guys are in their early 20's. I have never seen them play, and I probably never will, because their music is not really my thing. But I totally dig that they are all in a band.

So we're hanging out and people are chatting and the tunes are spinning on the hi-fi-wi-fi. It's the Hermit. One of the band guys looks up from where he is rolling a joint on the sofa and says "hey, that's really good!", pointing at the speakers. I smiled a little, like a proud mama.

Next song comes on. It's the Emergency. Same guy again gets psyched about the tunes. Nobody was paying attention to him, not even his buddies, but I was so satisfied in that moment - I love picking out party music, and I love it when people get turned on to new music, and when that new music happens to be just a dude who lives across the harbour and that music has happened to have a major impact on my life...well, I just can't describe how awesome that all is.

I was really proud that Joely stood up and stood out at the party, and really proud that even though that guy's band isn't really my thing, he sure knows how to recognize one hell of a riff. There's hope for all of us.