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After the show, the crowd

After the show people walk to their transportations The hotness and liveliness of the show were still in the air I like it when the venue was in a park, or in a sports complex When the crowd had to share some amount of walk before they can reach the vehicles or transportations

Once after The XX concert someone started to sing Wonderwall out of nowhere and the crowd sang along

I often observe the crowd after the show Like I never found a perfect crowd to blend in It’s either too Chinese, like 万能青年旅店 or too boomer like Cat Power sings Bob Dylan or too gen-z like Mistki Which is strange, for whatever reason she is popular on TikTok with a teenager crowd, differ from my expectations But punk music always attracts 15-year-olds like Avril Lavigne and Green Day which I listened to at 15

But most often I am among a bunch of tall bald white guys could not see the musicians on the stage doubting what kind of music I am into what is the demography that I share tastes with

People wear the tour shirts holding the merch in their hands talking about the show that just ended Heading to the next stop maybe

I belong to no crowd which is perfectly fine as I am used to being an outsider all the time

I avoid eye contact with human beings outside, but not with dogs

People I bumped into

In sweetgreen downstairs A guy from grad school Who bragged about getting interviews from all big four accounting firms during an sharing session Now ended up doing data analyst in the same tech firm I work for Living with wife, two kids and a Samoyed dog on the east side of this city Needless to say single family house quiet big yard where dogs can enjoy

In New York office The Korean girl from whom I bought a bed It was a sweet second hand deal for a bed I wanted for a while She was moving when I picked up the bed With friends and seemingly a mom sitting on a mattress lying on the ground Chatting in Korean, furnitures pieces spreading all over the apartment

A guy who is a husband of a grad school girl Never met in real life merely recognized from that girl’s SNS pictures Looked him up from company internal website Confirmed Weird I can recognize irrelevant people’s face and names Even from ages ago