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Apr. 7th, 2007 10:10 amFirst off, Iago and Laurie's wedding has become a meme unto its self. The first thing I saw this morning was a complete stranger (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theferret, from whence it is sure to spread like wildfire) linking to it and it has over 1k views on youtube as of this posting. Neat. =:)
Second, Karoke was much fun last night. I am convinced that there would be a big market for a geek-oriented karaoke dj to do parties, where the collection was all broadway, tmbj, weird al, Jonathan Coulton and the like.
Third, the Webley show the night before that was also fantastic. He was 45 mins late because of bus issues, which he explained to the audience via a cell phone held up to the mic. The woman whose cell he'd called started trying to organize things to have the audience entertain its self. Earlier I had yelled "open mic!" and she asked who'd said that, with the apparent intent of making that person get up and start the entertainment, but I chickened out and hid.
Then someone dug up a copy of a Ben Johnson play and a copy of Julius Caesar and a few of us, myself included, got on stage and "performed" scenes from them by passing the book from person to person while someone else accompanied us on a Djembe. By the time we'd gotten to the Shakespeare, we'd done away with actually assigning roles and instead just passed the book around, each reading whichever line happened to come next. The idea was that the winner would be the one who got "Et tu, Brute?", but we never got that far. =;)
Eventually it was decided that something a little more interactive for the rest of the audience was in order, so we split into teams and played charades. My team won. Go my team.
Jason showed up in the middle of charades and asked if people wanted to continue playing while he set up. The response was an overwhealming "yes". In fact, when he was set up, he ended up having to count down "ok, two more minutes, then I'm going to start, ok?", finally counting down the last ten seconds as we all scrambled to guess one more charade. I love the crowds at Webley shows.
Then the show started and it was fantastic. Possibly the best Webley show I've attended. The audiences at those shows are always great and he performed some new songs and told me about a new solo album out in October. Wheee!
Oh, and the woman leading the entertainment while we waited turned out to be Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls. Ummm.. wow. I'd heard that she was going to be there to record something with Jason (a live cover of a Baby Dee song, which rocked and will be on an upcoming compliation with all of us doing the sing-along chorus), but had sort of assumed that she would just show up in time to do her thing and then leave. I mean, she's a rock star, right? But there she was hanging out with everyone and organizing impromptu Shakespeare readings (note to self: cross "perform Julius Caesar with Amanda Palmer" off of TODO list). I imagine I'm in the vast minority of people around here in that I discovered the Dresden Dolls through an influx of Australian fans on the Jason Webley forum, who'd discovered Webley when he went on tour with the Dolls. I didn't even know they were from around here until recently. So anyway, I really didn't know what to expect, but I was very pleased with what I found.
In fact, the one down-side of the evening was that I was really beating myself up afterward for chickening out when she was trying to get people up on stage. I mean, I love being on stage. I am an attention whore and I've mostly come to accept this about myself. And yet there I was being invited up on stage to sing or whatever and I hid because I didn't want to look like an attention whore. Only when others started going up to do the Ben Johnson reading did I go because then I wouldn't be the only one. And so, of course, having missed the opportunity to really show off, my brain starts playing out the best-case-scenarion that I made myself miss, wherein, after a stunning rendition of... something, Palmer approaches me about this side project she has planned, for which I would be perfect. Blegh. There are downsides to being an optimist.
Ok, last thing, a treat for those who are interested and are still reading: At the show Amanda said that she's going to be doing an un-announced show, demoing some of her upcoming solo stuff tonight at the Lilly Pad. Admission is a $10 donation to the performance space. The Lilly pad is at 1353 Cambridge St and I believe she said the show is at 5pm. I could be wrong about that, but there's stuff on the pad's schedule from 6:30 on, so 5 sounds about right.
theferret, from whence it is sure to spread like wildfire) linking to it and it has over 1k views on youtube as of this posting. Neat. =:)Second, Karoke was much fun last night. I am convinced that there would be a big market for a geek-oriented karaoke dj to do parties, where the collection was all broadway, tmbj, weird al, Jonathan Coulton and the like.
Third, the Webley show the night before that was also fantastic. He was 45 mins late because of bus issues, which he explained to the audience via a cell phone held up to the mic. The woman whose cell he'd called started trying to organize things to have the audience entertain its self. Earlier I had yelled "open mic!" and she asked who'd said that, with the apparent intent of making that person get up and start the entertainment, but I chickened out and hid.
Then someone dug up a copy of a Ben Johnson play and a copy of Julius Caesar and a few of us, myself included, got on stage and "performed" scenes from them by passing the book from person to person while someone else accompanied us on a Djembe. By the time we'd gotten to the Shakespeare, we'd done away with actually assigning roles and instead just passed the book around, each reading whichever line happened to come next. The idea was that the winner would be the one who got "Et tu, Brute?", but we never got that far. =;)
Eventually it was decided that something a little more interactive for the rest of the audience was in order, so we split into teams and played charades. My team won. Go my team.
Jason showed up in the middle of charades and asked if people wanted to continue playing while he set up. The response was an overwhealming "yes". In fact, when he was set up, he ended up having to count down "ok, two more minutes, then I'm going to start, ok?", finally counting down the last ten seconds as we all scrambled to guess one more charade. I love the crowds at Webley shows.
Then the show started and it was fantastic. Possibly the best Webley show I've attended. The audiences at those shows are always great and he performed some new songs and told me about a new solo album out in October. Wheee!
Oh, and the woman leading the entertainment while we waited turned out to be Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls. Ummm.. wow. I'd heard that she was going to be there to record something with Jason (a live cover of a Baby Dee song, which rocked and will be on an upcoming compliation with all of us doing the sing-along chorus), but had sort of assumed that she would just show up in time to do her thing and then leave. I mean, she's a rock star, right? But there she was hanging out with everyone and organizing impromptu Shakespeare readings (note to self: cross "perform Julius Caesar with Amanda Palmer" off of TODO list). I imagine I'm in the vast minority of people around here in that I discovered the Dresden Dolls through an influx of Australian fans on the Jason Webley forum, who'd discovered Webley when he went on tour with the Dolls. I didn't even know they were from around here until recently. So anyway, I really didn't know what to expect, but I was very pleased with what I found.
In fact, the one down-side of the evening was that I was really beating myself up afterward for chickening out when she was trying to get people up on stage. I mean, I love being on stage. I am an attention whore and I've mostly come to accept this about myself. And yet there I was being invited up on stage to sing or whatever and I hid because I didn't want to look like an attention whore. Only when others started going up to do the Ben Johnson reading did I go because then I wouldn't be the only one. And so, of course, having missed the opportunity to really show off, my brain starts playing out the best-case-scenarion that I made myself miss, wherein, after a stunning rendition of... something, Palmer approaches me about this side project she has planned, for which I would be perfect. Blegh. There are downsides to being an optimist.
Ok, last thing, a treat for those who are interested and are still reading: At the show Amanda said that she's going to be doing an un-announced show, demoing some of her upcoming solo stuff tonight at the Lilly Pad. Admission is a $10 donation to the performance space. The Lilly pad is at 1353 Cambridge St and I believe she said the show is at 5pm. I could be wrong about that, but there's stuff on the pad's schedule from 6:30 on, so 5 sounds about right.
