Then around dinnertime Christine called me and asked me if she should pick me up to go to Lawrence's show up in Bellevue.
Here's the thing: I knew that Lawrence was having a show on Thursday. I also knew that yesterday was Thursday. But for some reason those two pieces of information in my brain never linked up.
Long story short, she swung by (looking very cute in a very familiar top) and picked me up about a half hour later, and drove the two of us up to the Hear Music Coffeehouse in Bellevue Square. Besides being where Lawrence works, this is also where the show was to take place.
We got there about an half-hour before the show was to start, so I went wandering over the sky bridge near Nordstrom's and into the mall proper. It was my mission to find Season One of Project Runway for Carrie to watch on the upcoming plane to Tucson. I got distracted, however, by the gigantic Apple store they have in the mall. I walked through it and drooled for quite a while.
By the time I was done there, I only had a couple more minutes to walk through the mall before I had to walk the great distance back to the Starbucks. So I didn't find the DVDs. Ah, well.
I got back in time and bought Christine a coffe, and myself a hot chocolate and a sausage breakfast sammitch (I were hungee for din-dins). The show started while I was doing this.
The first act was a girl who annoys Christine. I don't remember her name. She had a really good voice, but she was very young and didn't have any stage presence. It was better to close your eyes and listen than it was to watch her perform. But that'll come with time and confidence, so she'll be fine sooner or later.
The second act was absolutely spectacular. It was as if I had been transported back to the authentic 1970s. It was two guys with feathered hair (check out this photo)
and a black woman in a red dress and spectacular red high-heeled pumps:
And they were really, really good. It sounded like they'd been doing this for 30 years, and they had it down. One funny thing: the pickup in the guy on the right (pictured above)'s guitar broke right before their set was supposed to start, so he actually played Lawrence's electric guitar ("Roxanne") for the show. They did several very crowd-pleasing songs, and they all had really good presence, in that they were obviously very into what they were doing. After that it was Lawrence's turn. I experimented some with the video camera in my phancy phone and got this 30-second clip:
It was pretty much a shorter version of his usual set, although he did "It's Not Easy Being Green" instead of "Rainbow Connection." Though at the end, by request, he did "No Hurricane No Cry," a version of "No Woman No Cry" with funny lyrics about being a Katrina refugee.
After the show Christine drove all three of us (four if you count Roxanne, who I dutifully buckled up in the backseat next to me) back down to T-Town.
