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[wordplay]

Hey, I can get LJ again! *pets it*

The Onion skewers 'This American Life'. Hee.

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Great Big Sea show tonight. Seriously, they have the geekiest fans ever - when I feel like the coolest person in the room, we have a serious problem. But what's so awesome about their geek fans is that they GO FOR IT, and GBS is just that sort of band - it's foot-stompin' music and they're really very good at it. It was the end of the tour and they seemed to be having a genuinely good time.

After the show omphale23 and I met up for drinks and actually found a bar near Metro Center that had outdoor seating (I swear, it's like the double win - I usually end up just wandering around and sitting on the street - as I have done with so many of you! good times!), so we sat there and geeked out for a while over beer and cider and were having a really nice time and then omg the band walked up and Alan ended up getting chatty with the guy at the next table while I tried to melt through the sidewalk and decide if I had the cojones to even tell them how much I enjoyed the show. (um, nope!) We ended up spending about an hour sitting two tables over from them and trying really hard not to either (a) look over too often, because we are far, far too cool for that (and omphale23 totally did not cut holes in the ketchup dispenser for surreptitious photography. Hand to god.) or (b) talk too loudly about any from the whole FIELD of embarrassing topics that we have in common. Also, I had to stage a freaking jihad against the toilet paper that was very persistent about trying to stick to my shoe in the bathroom because, OK, I might be way, WAY too shy to actually talk to the cute Canadian musicians? But no way was I going to be toilet paper girl. The good thing, though, was that they were NICE - they said hi to us and smiled and nodded when we made eye contact and were nice to their waitstaff and genuinely seemed like pleasant, friendly guys. They play pleasant, friendly music, so I was very glad to see that.

In short, a very very fun night that I will remember up there with the night that Marc chatted with Barry from Carbon Leaf while I was too shy to go say "hello" - the Barry on whom I am still nurturing a crush. I just really don't know how to handle myself around people who I feel like I know much better than they know me, people whose reputation proceeds them unevenly to how mine does me, if that makes any sense. I just never really know what to do with myself, and I'd rather stay quiet than make an utter ass of myself, so I just... don't do anything. I just wish I didn't always regret it a little bit afterwards.

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[piperki.livejournal.com]

WRT the Onion: BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I mean, I listen to that show but still, this is so on the mark. :D

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Isn't it wonderful? I LOVE TAL and make heavy use of the audio archives to distract myself at work - but it was the bespectacled cynics prone to neuroses who are actually doing just fine that made me finally just DIE A LITTLE.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Bah, you should've said something! man, I wish I'd known about that concert before yesterday, they were so fantastic last year.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I saw them four or five years ago, when Carbon Leaf was touring as their opening band (and actually, that WAS the same CL show where Marc and Barry got chummy at the merch table so, really, my humiliation is all tied to GBS somehow) and they were playing at a small club in Houston to a crowd of Canadians and UVA grads. *laughs* Their shows are always so much fun, yeah?

And oh, Rami - I'm just not cut out for this. Not to go all Fitzwilliam Darcy on you, but I DO generally feel that I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers and, meep. *cowers under the table with my drink*

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Heh. You should obviously go places with me, then. I'm quite ill-qualified to do such things, and yet I do them anyway. I've met a number of amazing people that way, and mostly haven't done stupid things! Except for the time I had a lime thrown at me by Lee Tergesen...

[dizzledee.livejournal.com]

C, I can't imagine you making a total ass out of yourself. They'd be lucky to talk to you.

:D Did you get my message?

[darth-kittius.livejournal.com]

That concert was AWESOME! This year I forced several of my friends to go with me and had all of them converted about two songs in. Everyone had an awesome time (I mean, who wouldn't with that concert)?! We then wandered around downtown looking for someplace to eat (we were STARVING since we had some drama and didn't end up eating before going in the show). Finally gave up and headed back to a friends house. Wish we would have found that outdoor bar!

[omphale]

and omphale23 totally did not cut holes in the ketchup dispenser for surreptitious photography. Hand to god.

I did not. Because I am wicked fucking classy, and also a bit of a wuss when it comes to actually, you know, talking to people I don't know.

I still think it was a brilliant plan I had at the end, up until the toilet paper intervened.

They were *right there* and yet we were unable to say anything interesting to them. Although I did see them look over at our table (I think it was around the time of the 'I love PG but he has no shame' discussion--can't imagine what was striking about that bit...) a couple of times. If there's ever a next time, feel free to tell me to keep it down a little.

Beyond that, though, it was absolutely awesome to meet you in person. Seeing GBS (including Alan being visibly plastered at the bar, just before my really good idea) drinking at Harry's was just a bonus. A very cool and yet vaguely embarrassing bonus.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I never responded to this because I came out of post-show high and went straight to work-induced low low low, but omg yes - it was so much fun! You are so fun and lovely and I really hanging out. Looking forward to seeing you some time this week!

And they were totally looking over, but my interpretation of that wasn't, like, OMG they are talking about PG's drunkdriving! but either (a) that's what you do when there are hot women like us sitting there, sheesh; (b) that's what you do when you're sitting around at a bar, check out the other people who are enjoying the fantastic night; or (c) (and I actually think this is more likely) they knew that we were fans and were just, like, OK that is where they are and they are not being creepy yay. I think that in the states, they just can't have to watch themselves in public all that much, so if I were them I know I would be just AWARE.