Your post made me grateful for the relatively low cost of living here. Also glad to hear Red wasn't worth seeing, since I was sort of debating it.

Fit people at the gym can definitely be a little intimidating and/or irritating. Luckily, an LA Fitness opened up around here last year and all of the pretty people out to impress rushed over to the shiny new gym so it's mostly just my fellow average folk left. I'd probably be much more self-conscious about what I look like around a bunch of fit, pretty people. I refuse to be embarrassed about my air drumming, though. Fuck it, sometimes I just need to have a moment with Aerosmith or GNR, y'know?