Glow Sticks Anyone?

Originally Posted: April 19, 2007

Last night Heather invited me to go to Soul Kitchen with her and meet an old friend of hers that she had not seen in a while. I had just finished a pretty rough day at work... So I decided to go. Heather had mentioned that the band playing there was "kind of a jam band" so I expected some fratties and a "hippie" or two but I was pretty off. I have never felt so uncomfortable around white people before. Of course, with that discomfort, there was also a sense of security in the fact that if at any given time... the building caught on fire... and the only exit was from a 6th story window (which the Soul Kitchen does not have) I would be able to make a rope out of tangled human hair... easily. For those that didn't just catch that, I was noting the number of people with dredlocks. I would be willing to say nearly 50 people were sporting that nappy shit.
Being the 'go with the flow' type person I am... I wasn't really put off by the number of ... well... fake hippies truthfully, and went in to try to have a good time. I wasn't there half an hour when some jack ass walked past me and said, "man, you don't fit in here". NORMALLY, I would have been pretty pissed off... but the fact that that statement really meant,"man, you dress nice, have a job and own shampoo" made me pretty happy about myself so I let it slide. As far as the music, it was actually pretty good. Not so much a jam band. Imagine coldplay with no vocals. I would almost compare them to that. (http://www.myspace.com/sndtrbsct9)
On another note, people on X are fun to watch dance and shake violently. Also, and this is the WIERDEST part of the night, I found David Geislingers "Soul Twin". Some of you may ask, "what the hell is that? I have heard of SoulMate... but never Soul Twin". Well to be honest... I think I may have just made up the term... but I now know it to be FACT! There is a black guy in Mobile, AL that looks, walks, talks, dances and makes gestures EXACTLY like David Geislinger. No lie... If the guy were not black... I would have walked up to him and said "hey david.. whats up". It was creepy.