is this what i think it is?

okay. i've completed the immediate task at hand, i can now get down to the nitty-gritty of strangeness. so the story goes a little something like this: i ask "john" (to whom we will begin referring minus the "quotes") for his bassist's email, as senor bass has expressed interest in making an appearance at one of my shows. i ask for this, john responds, asking three questions of his own: where was i born, what day and what time? slightly confused, i respond. asking why, naturally. he tells me that he just likes to know who he's dealing with, and that he was kind of into astrology. he just wanted to get an idea of me. fair enough.

flash forward to the next day. i open my mailbox to find a terrifyingly long email thoroughly detailing my relationship to the stars. interesting, how nice of you to take the time...i send back another little note thanking him, which went a little something like this:

my my.

in certain respects, i'd say that's fairly accurate.

it's funny...you get so used to dealing with the

tangible that it's sometimes easy to overlook the fact

that things like stars, which are so far away that

they are functionally only ideas for most people, can

impact us as well.

makes me feel rather small, actually. in a good way.

to which he says:

Actually, it's not that the stars are in fact 'impacting' us. It's more the whole notion of synchronicity. Things that happen at the same time do so for a reason. And we're partially aware of these reasons, I'd say. At any rate, probably too much to explain in an email.

yes, yes it is. now, my immediate instinct is to follow up this note with a "you're absolutely right, we should get together sometime and talk about it some more."

doesn't that seem like the logical conclusion?

christ in a sidecar.

a cooling period is being enforced until i get over myself.