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garranI really enjoyed the show, even though they played heavily from their most recent album, which for possibly unreasonable reasons I've never been as fond of as I am of Old World Underground... or what I've heard of the unbuyable first one. Emily Haines is a fascinating person to watch; not in a Nirmala Basnayake sort of way, but in a way really congruent with her voice, sort of spasmodic and intense. Also she is blond, which I somehow never expected.
Highlights and interesting things:
Not so cool:
As the reader can clearly see, an enjoyment profit was easily achieved.
XHTML makes me cry, because it wants me to make my tags lowercase and also ugly. Not today, XHTML.
Highlights and interesting things:
- I sat next to a serious young man of maybe thirteen, who waved a glow stick, hopped up and down in his seat, and mimed playing the drums in moments of excitement. This made me feel pretty comfortable engaging in my own idiosyncratic dancelikes.
- Islands were pretty good, though I'll have to do some more listening before I decide if their appeal crosses over from their live to their recorded music.
- Apparently it's common for people who buy shirts at concerts to put those shirts on immediately over whatever they're wearing (it's not just my sister). Periodically after the show I encountered clumps and eddies of teenaged girls with Metric-themed torsos, spreading into the general society like a stain in water.
- I didn't see Marilee, but I did see, in passing, a bunch of people I recognized (though I don't know many of their names). Those whose names I do know: Sylvia*, Tess' friend Yogi, and ex-Windsor House ex-little girl Mackenzie.
(*I think it was Sylvia; I saw her from behind.) - At the end of the encore, Ms. Haines invited a bunch of random audience members up on stage, and hugged them, one by one.
Not so cool:
- Standing in line for twenty minutes in the rain. I guess that this concert had more mainstream appeal than any I've been to previously.
- The brief but occasional strong smell of marijuana.
As the reader can clearly see, an enjoyment profit was easily achieved.
XHTML makes me cry, because it wants me to make my tags lowercase and also ugly. Not today, XHTML.
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Date: 2006-04-02 10:56 am (UTC)Glad the concerting provided enjoyment overall. ^_^
Well, you sure aren't lowercase! Heh heh heh.
Date: 2006-04-02 10:56 am (UTC)Trinitric antic ethic
Met meretricious.
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Date: 2006-04-02 10:58 am (UTC)hello!
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Date: 2006-04-02 11:00 am (UTC)When I wave my mouse over it, it should say awesome.
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Date: 2006-04-02 11:02 am (UTC)anyhow, I think I'm gonna go rock the whole bed/sleep thing
Date: 2006-04-02 11:06 am (UTC)Re: anyhow, I think I'm gonna go rock the whole bed/sleep thing
Date: 2006-04-02 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 10:23 pm (UTC)Ageism is actually a difficult problem! Because it's not fair or sensible to treat everybody the same; it's to a certain extent totally legitimate to have different expectations of someone based on their age. And then there is a necessary balance, of keeping that without exceeding it, and allowing one's expectations and perceptions to change as people do, and never failing to show anyone respect. It requires, as most matters of such nuance, a lot of periodic, careful course corrections.
-Andy H.
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Date: 2006-04-02 10:25 pm (UTC)-Andy H.
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Date: 2006-04-03 03:55 am (UTC)Wonderfully, Wikipedia includes instructions for making it.
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Date: 2006-04-03 07:10 am (UTC)Re: What? Hey!
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Date: 2006-04-03 08:19 am (UTC)Re: What? Hey!
Date: 2006-04-04 12:33 am (UTC)