I usually throw a few notes down on my computer before going to bed if I think that I might want to write about something that I’ve been to. The first note that I left for myself after getting home from seeing Corian Ellisor and Alex Abarca’s My People at 7 Stages was the question “Why am I drunk?” I got a cup of wine from Java Jive before the show and found that my face and lips had gone completely numb and I was finding new comfortable ways to lean against the banister by the stage. For a moment I wondered if I’d actually been drugged but I suspect that my body was just worn out by a long week and there was more wine in that cup than normal. Fortunately I had walked there and didn’t really have to worry about driving.
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