12.47
We left our hotel punctually at noon and are now heading towards Milwaukee. Opposite the hotel lobby a large queue was queueing to get into a small pancake house.
13.43
We are pulling into Milwaukee.
23.18
A generous audience in a mixed standing-sitting venue. Something to my left was disturbing. Not quite violation, more off-putting. I found myself unable to go to the front of the stage and acknowledge the audience, without knowing quite why. From the back of the stage I saw why: a library of vinyl records to be signed, just to my left. This was not a bad person, but a person with an agenda that was other to mine. I was there to play music. He was there to get his records autographed.
On the Crimbus coming back from the gig, Adrian made a comment that lead to the following exchange --
RF: To be serious but not solemn: I don't take decisions in my life with a view to be happy.
Trey: That's why you're so miserable!
There we have it. That's a different approach for me, and maybe one I should adopt: take decisions that lead to happiness rather than what I see as right conduct.
"Remain in hell without despair."
