Seriously, this never happens.

Had a fun night with Taylor last night, on a whim we decided we were both bored, and he had decided there was no way he was going to go see Matt Mayes at the Wave, “If I wanted to hear someone pretend he was Neil Young I'd go see a cover band” was the stated opinion.

So we decided to meet up and go to Baba's for a while. We got there and sat down in the far corner and just talked about politics and how much it sucks when people you hate like the same music as you. We didn't even notice that there was a trivia contest starting up. If we had we'd have been all over that shit, of course, but it was kind of better that we could just sit and continue our conversation while the rest of the bar agonized over which element is most abundant in the human body by weight (oxygen). The funniest part was that across from us were this team of people who try to be Taylor's rivals at trivia most of the time. One time Taylor and his friend beat them and didn't have time to drink the beer that was the prize, so they went over to this other team and said “Do you guys want this? We can't drink it, but we just wanted to win it.” So we were watching these guys argue over answers and we just sat back and looked smugly superior.

At one point a really pretty girl came over and asked us to answer a question for her. “Which sport, other than snowboarding, was introduced in the 1998 Olympics?” Now, once it's exposed that you are a trivia goldmine you are apt to get no end of people coming to mooch answers off of you, but neither of us can stand to not say an answer to a question if we know it. We chatted a bit and made her giggle for a while before I sent her off with the answer (women's hockey) so it wasn't so bad. Later she shared some of their prize with us so it all worked out. :)

After that we took a seat at the big round table between the bar and the stage, sort of the pivot point of the room, and had a fun time talking to quite a few people who were coming by on a pub crawl (ostensibly for the chemistry department at UPEI, I didn't meet any actual chemistry students), or later on to watch the band. Baba's is the most weirdly laid out bar on earth, it's like the Capital in Freddie, so long and thin that there's barely room to move past the bar. So everyone going from one end to the other pretty much ended up at our table. The band's name was Sugarcrook, I believe.. not too bad, they did a nice funky version of “Tax Man&rdqou;, but when they played actual funk songs like something by Sly and the Family Stone they fell a little flatter. But great to listen to, the perfect music for the mood I was in that night. Before they started playing we were talking to their keyboard player for a while, and I had no idea he was actually in the band until I said “I hope these guys start playing soon”. Yes, it's fun being in a parallel universe to one's surroundings.

But anyway, it was a fun night, and it's kind of scary how similar Taylor and I ended up being in so many ways, even though we pretty much parted ways before University.