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Apr. 21st, 2007 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordplayHey, 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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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on 2007-04-21 04:09 pm (UTC)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...