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Apr. 3rd, 2009 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bliumchikhahaha, and the overbooked schedule continues! This is the first chance I've had to update all week. I had a big assignment due wednesday, in between rehearsals and random items, and to top it all off my internet's capped until the eighth so everything is loading at a snail's pace. The best I've been able to manage is twitter :P forreal, I tried to log onto my internet banking today to transfer money into my new ING direct savings account, and it timed out on four separate occasions, each requiring me to go back to the homepage and open the window again. Youtube is totally impassable.
On the bright side, the assignment went well! I am very confident in it. This is a very strange feeling for me.
Last night me and Lily and her guitar went to a thing Facebook called Massive Jam Night at Tailor's on Central. We haven't played together for a while and so getting up on stage proved beyond us - well, I was for it but Lily chickened out. I could've gone up by myself but I was completely sober - I forgot my passport the one time the bartender actually asked for ID of course - and frankly terrified. So we just sat and watched some randoms jamming. A couple of really good performers and bands went up - one of them was very My Chemical Romancey except their lyrics were. Well. Frankly awful. But the music was good and the singer's black hair-dye was HILARIOUS. It didn't suit him at all! It turned out the event was organised by Tenielle who I went to high school with - random coincidence ftw!
After a while it started getting a bit smokey so we went outside. I was still trying to convince Lily to go up, so I said what if we practice a bit out here first? We sat down on the kerb behind some sort of fixture with plants in and ran through Bone Weather until we managed to simultaneously not forget words/chords, but she still refused to go back. That was okay, though, because at that point three random dudes rocked up and we had a musical interlude.
They started off by asking to see the guitar. I was naturally suspicious but Lily defused the situation with a Mr. Bean joke and they put their stuff down and sat on the kerb with us and talked about music. Two of them were brothers, and one or both were almost certainly flirting with Lily - while recommending bands one of them insisting on giving her his number, ostensibly because he's a drummer and we really do need a drummer, but let's just say I See What You Did There. The third guy was very drunk - he earnestly asked me if I'd seen Donnie Darko no less than three times and spent some time trying to play Bright Eyes and Radiohead on Lily's guitar. (He was actually pretty good except for not remembering half the chords. We did a Karma Police duet, it was kind of awesome.) Then he got up (with the guitar) and wandered off to serenade some poor random girl who was only trying to cross the street. One of his friuends reassured us that if he tried to run off with the guitar he (the friend) would "tackle" him and I replied (much as that would be hilarious and possibly kind of hot) that for a guy that drunk I could likely chase him down myself.
Later he got up and approached with his arms out to hug what I thought was some random guy but realised when he hugged back was actually somebody they knew. Then he came closer and I realised it was somebody I knew, Jonathan, who I went to primary school with and who was there because he also knew Tenielle. Small world!
Anyway, then the random guys left (insisting on hugs, which was obviously awkward for me, but explaining would have been more so), and obviously nothing was going to top the random musical interlude, so we called it a night and went home.
Good thing too as I had to get up early this morning for yet another rehearsal! The play is next week argh what! And now I am off to see Alex's band Talkbox play at the Harp, and I have no idea where the Harp is, but 131500 is my saviour!
On the bright side, the assignment went well! I am very confident in it. This is a very strange feeling for me.
Last night me and Lily and her guitar went to a thing Facebook called Massive Jam Night at Tailor's on Central. We haven't played together for a while and so getting up on stage proved beyond us - well, I was for it but Lily chickened out. I could've gone up by myself but I was completely sober - I forgot my passport the one time the bartender actually asked for ID of course - and frankly terrified. So we just sat and watched some randoms jamming. A couple of really good performers and bands went up - one of them was very My Chemical Romancey except their lyrics were. Well. Frankly awful. But the music was good and the singer's black hair-dye was HILARIOUS. It didn't suit him at all! It turned out the event was organised by Tenielle who I went to high school with - random coincidence ftw!
After a while it started getting a bit smokey so we went outside. I was still trying to convince Lily to go up, so I said what if we practice a bit out here first? We sat down on the kerb behind some sort of fixture with plants in and ran through Bone Weather until we managed to simultaneously not forget words/chords, but she still refused to go back. That was okay, though, because at that point three random dudes rocked up and we had a musical interlude.
They started off by asking to see the guitar. I was naturally suspicious but Lily defused the situation with a Mr. Bean joke and they put their stuff down and sat on the kerb with us and talked about music. Two of them were brothers, and one or both were almost certainly flirting with Lily - while recommending bands one of them insisting on giving her his number, ostensibly because he's a drummer and we really do need a drummer, but let's just say I See What You Did There. The third guy was very drunk - he earnestly asked me if I'd seen Donnie Darko no less than three times and spent some time trying to play Bright Eyes and Radiohead on Lily's guitar. (He was actually pretty good except for not remembering half the chords. We did a Karma Police duet, it was kind of awesome.) Then he got up (with the guitar) and wandered off to serenade some poor random girl who was only trying to cross the street. One of his friuends reassured us that if he tried to run off with the guitar he (the friend) would "tackle" him and I replied (much as that would be hilarious and possibly kind of hot) that for a guy that drunk I could likely chase him down myself.
Later he got up and approached with his arms out to hug what I thought was some random guy but realised when he hugged back was actually somebody they knew. Then he came closer and I realised it was somebody I knew, Jonathan, who I went to primary school with and who was there because he also knew Tenielle. Small world!
Anyway, then the random guys left (insisting on hugs, which was obviously awkward for me, but explaining would have been more so), and obviously nothing was going to top the random musical interlude, so we called it a night and went home.
Good thing too as I had to get up early this morning for yet another rehearsal! The play is next week argh what! And now I am off to see Alex's band Talkbox play at the Harp, and I have no idea where the Harp is, but 131500 is my saviour!
