like a firefly without a light
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bluelovesorangeYeah, so I'm using Runaway Train lyrics for all my posts this morning - I love this song.
Because I left my setlist (and notes! copious notes in my special 'at-gig handrwriting, only I and a very a drunk doctor can decipher it!') with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eowyn797, my Tom recap is going to be later than usual, unless Annie uploads the gigs for me and then I can just listen to them again and just summarize for you all.
However, Ahlennah did manage to make out the setlist and send it to me -
at Amoeba in-store 03-09-04
1. you only disappear
2. walking 2 hawaii
3. mermaid blues
4. a & b song
Tom cracked, "and if you want to hear these songs again, in the same order - we'll be at the Hotel Cafe, just up the street in about an hour!" (looks at nonexistent watch)
Glen, their sound guy came up to me at one point, while I was looking at cds (I bought three: Mercury Rev (finally. FINALLY.) Plastilina Mosh's Juan Emanuel (I couldn't find Orishas OR Manu Chao, and I regretfully passed on Rita Lee's Bossa Nova Beatles (Clarissa, feel free to hit me.) and my third purchase was the 0ld 97's Satellite Rides. The total came to 24 dollars, as they were all used cds. He said hello and he was playing with his video camera while asking me what I was getting - apparently he had been going up to random people in the store and scaring them. *G*
How great is that?
And oh! I got checked out (as in, rung up on a register, not the other, agreeable kind) by this loooovely geekboy. Looked a bit like Graham from Blur and Gael but with glasses. I had been hoping I would end up being helped by him, so when I got him, it was like..."EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. MINI CONGA DANCE IN MY HEAD!"
Ahem.
Met up with Patti briefly, and she surprised me with a mix cd of solidarity (I knew she was going to give Annie and Ahlennah one, I was just surprised) with Keira on the cover, being all warrior woman and rwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.
at the Hotel Cafe
1. You Only Disappear
2. Walking 2 Hawaii
3. Bordersong
4. End of the world news (dose me up)
5. Mermaid blues
7. A & B song
8. streetlight
9. How the west was won
10. Ghost of a Shark
INTERMISSION (being as it was their last night at the Hotel Cafe, they got to play a longer set, so they took a five or so minute break to get drinks.)
Tom asked for requests then said, "Which we'll ignore, as we've only rehearsed so many songs." (on the setlist Ahlennah snagged, Karaoke Soul was written down! Damn!)
11. Bloodless
12. packing for the crash
13. Boy w/bubble gun
14. it ain't you
Tom thanks us, or specifically, thank you to all the fans who've come to every gig and followed us around for this tour.
15. language of fools
Tom played it because he promised a friend he would.
Medley of: you can't always get what you want/california girls
Thanks to Tom's diary at his website, here's what he said after having some technical difficulty and after playing "How the west was won"
The set up was that he promised that he wouldn't be so Oscar speechy at the next gig, but he was thanking a lot of people yesterday night and it was really sweet. But as they had been having little glitches with tech stuff on and off, he joked, "Maybe I should have thanked God after all..." and then he launched into this:
Joshua trees were named by the mormons apparently, who thought the trees looked liked Joshua beckoning them to the promised land. Freaks. Only a Christian could look at those creepy trees and think anything other than “stay away, it’s a fucking desert, we’re the only things that grow here…. Turn back, you idiots”. But then if you believe in an all-powerful god there’s seemingly no limit to your lunacy.
Hee. Tom.
I made two cards - one for Tom, and one for Cello Oli, and a mix cd for Keyboard Olli, so he could have something new to listen to on the flight home (from our very first conversation or so when I asked him what does one exactly do on an 11+ hour flight) and because I didn't know what kind of book he'd be interested in reading. But I stuck the cd in an envelope (these things weren't supposed to be last minute, but with RL complications and just my own crappy time management, I ended up making the cards ON THE CAR RIDE and inside the Hotel Cafe) and wrote all over the envelope so it sort of became a card...
but yeah. They were just me trying to express how much Tom's music and how they work together as a band and as friends affected me and inspired me, and just me thanking them for being so damn cool every time I've seen them. I had a little bit of gentle teasing fun at Cello Oli, in his card though - it was a watercolor painted over printout picture (because, again, I said on the car ride - and while I may be able to write setlists and cards in a moving vehicle, I sure as hell can't draw in one) pasted on the card, and on top, O is for Oli....inside it says, "Who breaks hearts" and a sad little heart scribble.
All three of them were supremely nice about their cards, Keyboard Olli said he'd put it in his bag immediately so it wouldn't get crushed, but then he looked at it and saw there was writing all over it, started reading it, and when he took out the mix cd ("are these photos?" "no, it's a mix cd" "OH, that's really great of you!") and then he took it outside in the light (I did a lot of going back and forth inside the place) and read the tracklisting and grinned and he told me that he'd rip it into his ipod so he could listen to it on the plane. Then he hugged me and thanked me for coming out to all the gigs.
Waaah. I want an Ipod.
Sorry, random aside.
I gave Oli his card next, as he was carrying equipment back (thinking now I should have waited while he had both his hands free, like Keyboard olli did) and I asked him how he was feeling - "Tired, mostly." but smiling in that way he has - he has a beautiful smile, by the way, and when he got his card, he went, "Oh, did you give the other Olli one, too? Because I don't want him to get jealous or anything..." and we all laughed and I assured him that of course I gave Olli a card. We chatted a bit more, I wished him a happy time in Texas (I hear great barbecue and beer.) and then I asked him if I could get a hug, as it was the last gig and all. And he apologized for being all sweaty first, "Are you sure?" and then he hugged me.
And Ahlennah now says I should have nudged her in his direction so she could have gotten a hug, but I say, Oli knows of your love! (He really does. She had been innocently thinking out loud about how bummed she was that he, er, Tom, was leaving...) and I stuck it in the card as a very amusing postscript.
"I hate you." "No you don't." And we had a long conversation about what else I could have put there, perhaps..."My love is like wo. Or more accurately, WHOA." Except I don't think Oli or Tom (as I brought this up later on in the evening and he promised to tell Oli) are big Mya fans.
More later.
Because I left my setlist (and notes! copious notes in my special 'at-gig handrwriting, only I and a very a drunk doctor can decipher it!') with
eowyn797, my Tom recap is going to be later than usual, unless Annie uploads the gigs for me and then I can just listen to them again and just summarize for you all.However, Ahlennah did manage to make out the setlist and send it to me -
at Amoeba in-store 03-09-04
1. you only disappear
2. walking 2 hawaii
3. mermaid blues
4. a & b song
Tom cracked, "and if you want to hear these songs again, in the same order - we'll be at the Hotel Cafe, just up the street in about an hour!" (looks at nonexistent watch)
Glen, their sound guy came up to me at one point, while I was looking at cds (I bought three: Mercury Rev (finally. FINALLY.) Plastilina Mosh's Juan Emanuel (I couldn't find Orishas OR Manu Chao, and I regretfully passed on Rita Lee's Bossa Nova Beatles (Clarissa, feel free to hit me.) and my third purchase was the 0ld 97's Satellite Rides. The total came to 24 dollars, as they were all used cds. He said hello and he was playing with his video camera while asking me what I was getting - apparently he had been going up to random people in the store and scaring them. *G*
How great is that?
And oh! I got checked out (as in, rung up on a register, not the other, agreeable kind) by this loooovely geekboy. Looked a bit like Graham from Blur and Gael but with glasses. I had been hoping I would end up being helped by him, so when I got him, it was like..."EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. MINI CONGA DANCE IN MY HEAD!"
Ahem.
Met up with Patti briefly, and she surprised me with a mix cd of solidarity (I knew she was going to give Annie and Ahlennah one, I was just surprised) with Keira on the cover, being all warrior woman and rwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.
at the Hotel Cafe
1. You Only Disappear
2. Walking 2 Hawaii
3. Bordersong
4. End of the world news (dose me up)
5. Mermaid blues
7. A & B song
8. streetlight
9. How the west was won
10. Ghost of a Shark
INTERMISSION (being as it was their last night at the Hotel Cafe, they got to play a longer set, so they took a five or so minute break to get drinks.)
Tom asked for requests then said, "Which we'll ignore, as we've only rehearsed so many songs." (on the setlist Ahlennah snagged, Karaoke Soul was written down! Damn!)
11. Bloodless
12. packing for the crash
13. Boy w/bubble gun
14. it ain't you
Tom thanks us, or specifically, thank you to all the fans who've come to every gig and followed us around for this tour.
15. language of fools
Tom played it because he promised a friend he would.
Medley of: you can't always get what you want/california girls
Thanks to Tom's diary at his website, here's what he said after having some technical difficulty and after playing "How the west was won"
The set up was that he promised that he wouldn't be so Oscar speechy at the next gig, but he was thanking a lot of people yesterday night and it was really sweet. But as they had been having little glitches with tech stuff on and off, he joked, "Maybe I should have thanked God after all..." and then he launched into this:
Joshua trees were named by the mormons apparently, who thought the trees looked liked Joshua beckoning them to the promised land. Freaks. Only a Christian could look at those creepy trees and think anything other than “stay away, it’s a fucking desert, we’re the only things that grow here…. Turn back, you idiots”. But then if you believe in an all-powerful god there’s seemingly no limit to your lunacy.
Hee. Tom.
I made two cards - one for Tom, and one for Cello Oli, and a mix cd for Keyboard Olli, so he could have something new to listen to on the flight home (from our very first conversation or so when I asked him what does one exactly do on an 11+ hour flight) and because I didn't know what kind of book he'd be interested in reading. But I stuck the cd in an envelope (these things weren't supposed to be last minute, but with RL complications and just my own crappy time management, I ended up making the cards ON THE CAR RIDE and inside the Hotel Cafe) and wrote all over the envelope so it sort of became a card...
but yeah. They were just me trying to express how much Tom's music and how they work together as a band and as friends affected me and inspired me, and just me thanking them for being so damn cool every time I've seen them. I had a little bit of gentle teasing fun at Cello Oli, in his card though - it was a watercolor painted over printout picture (because, again, I said on the car ride - and while I may be able to write setlists and cards in a moving vehicle, I sure as hell can't draw in one) pasted on the card, and on top, O is for Oli....inside it says, "Who breaks hearts" and a sad little heart scribble.
All three of them were supremely nice about their cards, Keyboard Olli said he'd put it in his bag immediately so it wouldn't get crushed, but then he looked at it and saw there was writing all over it, started reading it, and when he took out the mix cd ("are these photos?" "no, it's a mix cd" "OH, that's really great of you!") and then he took it outside in the light (I did a lot of going back and forth inside the place) and read the tracklisting and grinned and he told me that he'd rip it into his ipod so he could listen to it on the plane. Then he hugged me and thanked me for coming out to all the gigs.
Waaah. I want an Ipod.
Sorry, random aside.
I gave Oli his card next, as he was carrying equipment back (thinking now I should have waited while he had both his hands free, like Keyboard olli did) and I asked him how he was feeling - "Tired, mostly." but smiling in that way he has - he has a beautiful smile, by the way, and when he got his card, he went, "Oh, did you give the other Olli one, too? Because I don't want him to get jealous or anything..." and we all laughed and I assured him that of course I gave Olli a card. We chatted a bit more, I wished him a happy time in Texas (I hear great barbecue and beer.) and then I asked him if I could get a hug, as it was the last gig and all. And he apologized for being all sweaty first, "Are you sure?" and then he hugged me.
And Ahlennah now says I should have nudged her in his direction so she could have gotten a hug, but I say, Oli knows of your love! (He really does. She had been innocently thinking out loud about how bummed she was that he, er, Tom, was leaving...) and I stuck it in the card as a very amusing postscript.
"I hate you." "No you don't." And we had a long conversation about what else I could have put there, perhaps..."My love is like wo. Or more accurately, WHOA." Except I don't think Oli or Tom (as I brought this up later on in the evening and he promised to tell Oli) are big Mya fans.
More later.
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Date: 2004-03-10 12:17 pm (UTC)i'm working on scanning your...er...note thingies, but the scanner is occupied right now. soon as it's free, i'll post you a link to it.
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Date: 2004-03-10 12:37 pm (UTC)It's the name of a Mya song. I saw a SONGSET to it. Agggh. Lysol.
And Saffron, I have TWO Amoebas near me. TWO. *eg*
replying late, sorry!
Date: 2004-03-25 06:32 pm (UTC)Whoever made the songset must have been on lots of drugs. ;)
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Date: 2004-03-10 01:23 pm (UTC)Dammit. Dammit. Sigh.
Glen scared the crap out of me at Amoeba, too. Hee.