Subject: Re: the forum is stagnating |
Author: VANDEN BERGE, ROB
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Date Posted: 21:55:22 05/03/03 Sat
In reply to:
carolyn
's message, "the forum is stagnating" on 07:22:39 04/30/03 Wed
>Hey, now it's my turn to try to get things moving
>again. The forum has just been sitting for days
>without new posts. I rely on this shit to entertain
>me for *minutes* of my day while at work. This is
>important, people!
>
>I will share with you my commentary on the Tori Amos
>concert last night. It kinda blew. Kidding, of
>course, it was fabulous. Rhett Miller (who???) opened
>for her. He was okay, definitely nice to look at. He
>did one song that I think has potential for Emily's
>love song CD. I don't remember what it was called,
>but I do remember being impressed.
>
>Tori covered Madonna last night ("If I Live to Tell"),
>which was wicked awesome. She did a few songs that I
>so didn't expect to hear at a show (Not the Red
>Baron), and something that I completely didn't
>recognize. I don't know if anyone really did. Ya
>know how when you're at a concert and a song just
>starts, it takes a couple of notes for the audience to
>know what's being played? Then when everyone
>recognizes the tune there's a big "Wooooooo!" Like,
>"Yeah! I know what song that is!" :P This one song
>(what the hell it's called, I certainly don't know)
>she starts playing, everyone applauds because
>she's--well, because she's present on stage and
>touching a piano--starting, but there was never the
>big WOOOOOOOOO of recognition. It was kinda odd.
>
>The other thing that made me smile a lot during the
>show was that there was a young woman sitting across
>the aisle from me. She was holding an infant less
>than a year old throughout the show. What a lucky
>baby! The baby fell asleep after a few songs, but
>while she was awake, the baby was staring SO intently
>at the stage. It was cool. And mom was cool and kept
>the kid's ears covered for a most of the show (all but
>about three songs, when she was awake) so the poor
>child wasn't deafened by the loud music. The baby
>didn't cry once. I was so impressed.
>
>I'm fuckin' tired today. We came straight home after
>the show, but still that was significantly past my
>usual bedtime. I got up early today to go work out.
>Every time we layed down to do situps I wanted to just
>fall asleep on my little mat, like preschool naptime.
>
>I'm at work now, and have about a half hour to kill
>before I have a bullshit meeting to attend. Someone
>post something--anything.
>caro
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