![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jun. 11th, 2008 09:36 pmThis is the third night in a row where I haven't got home before nine o'clock because of doing fiddley wedding related things. I just want an evening where I can sit on the sofa for five minutes with a cup of tea in one hand and a gossipy magazine in the other. Just five minutes!
Sunday night, REO Speedwagon were amazing! Supposed to be a standing gig in the Olympia (my favourite concert venue, it's a theatre, it's small and intimate and no seat/standing spot is a bad one) but when we got there, there were the stalls down, unreserved seating. We ended up four rows back, dead centre. (Would have been front row but then we'd've been way over to the side - we decided centre was better). They played a few songs from the new album, but mostly the stuff you'd expect them to play, and I was singing along to everything - think K was quite afraid! Especially when the introduction to "Tough Guys" started (a song that was at the top of my "It'd be great if they play it but I'm not sure they will" list) - it's got a snip of the Little Rascals as the intro, so it's real distinctive, and when I heard it, I screamed. Ear-piercing, teeny bopper scream. And KC completely messed up the lyrics to the second verse ("She doesn't like the tough guys, be-da bop bop da dee da da da dah..." instead of "she says that they've got brains down where they sit") but I love him anyway.
Queued up on the way out to get the new CD (had got the tour book and the t-shirt on the way in, declined the CD then, who was I kidding, seriously?) and then as we were walking by the alley, I noticed there were very few at stage door. Said so to Himself, accompanied by a beseeching look, and his response was "What are you looking at me for? If you want to go, go."
I love the bones of that man.
So off we went to the stage door, and we waited and we chatted to the other dozen or so uber-fans that were there, and then they came out and they all had their own sharpies and they all spoke to me and signed my tour book and they were lovely and I'm smiling here just thinking about it. *happy dances*
School tour yesterday went well. Though I was ticked off on Monday - two of the UnHoly Trinity got themselves banned from the tour last week. (Their crime, one brought a lighter into school, the other as well as being in trouble three days in a row, brought in caps, like for a cap gun, and they were planning to set them on fire to see what happened.) One of them, the one in trouble three days in a row, who had told untold lies all week and been involved in bullying another child came in on Monday with a swagger ten foot tall on him, and wasted no time in telling me and all the other kids where his parents had taken him at the weekend.
Any guesses?
Yep. The place we were going the following day on our school tour. *boggles* And they wonder why he is the way he is?
One more week left with that class... next Wednesday is my last day. *happy dances*
Sunday night, REO Speedwagon were amazing! Supposed to be a standing gig in the Olympia (my favourite concert venue, it's a theatre, it's small and intimate and no seat/standing spot is a bad one) but when we got there, there were the stalls down, unreserved seating. We ended up four rows back, dead centre. (Would have been front row but then we'd've been way over to the side - we decided centre was better). They played a few songs from the new album, but mostly the stuff you'd expect them to play, and I was singing along to everything - think K was quite afraid! Especially when the introduction to "Tough Guys" started (a song that was at the top of my "It'd be great if they play it but I'm not sure they will" list) - it's got a snip of the Little Rascals as the intro, so it's real distinctive, and when I heard it, I screamed. Ear-piercing, teeny bopper scream. And KC completely messed up the lyrics to the second verse ("She doesn't like the tough guys, be-da bop bop da dee da da da dah..." instead of "she says that they've got brains down where they sit") but I love him anyway.
Queued up on the way out to get the new CD (had got the tour book and the t-shirt on the way in, declined the CD then, who was I kidding, seriously?) and then as we were walking by the alley, I noticed there were very few at stage door. Said so to Himself, accompanied by a beseeching look, and his response was "What are you looking at me for? If you want to go, go."
I love the bones of that man.
So off we went to the stage door, and we waited and we chatted to the other dozen or so uber-fans that were there, and then they came out and they all had their own sharpies and they all spoke to me and signed my tour book and they were lovely and I'm smiling here just thinking about it. *happy dances*
School tour yesterday went well. Though I was ticked off on Monday - two of the UnHoly Trinity got themselves banned from the tour last week. (Their crime, one brought a lighter into school, the other as well as being in trouble three days in a row, brought in caps, like for a cap gun, and they were planning to set them on fire to see what happened.) One of them, the one in trouble three days in a row, who had told untold lies all week and been involved in bullying another child came in on Monday with a swagger ten foot tall on him, and wasted no time in telling me and all the other kids where his parents had taken him at the weekend.
Any guesses?
Yep. The place we were going the following day on our school tour. *boggles* And they wonder why he is the way he is?
One more week left with that class... next Wednesday is my last day. *happy dances*
