3 posts tagged “qotd”
What are the 10 most memorable music performances you've seen? (Remember, "memorable" may not be good.)
Submitted by Bill.
I'm only gonna list one, because there's really only one worth telling a story about.
A few years ago, I had just gone through a breakup and was ready to rock out to Erin McKeown's bubbly sounds with a group of my beloved friends, of which eachroad was one of. When we got to the concert, we found out that Andrew Bird would be opening for Erin....none of us had heard of him at the time, but cool, new music, right? Except it wasn't. If you have never seen Andrew in concert, just know that he is does these crazy things where he improvs musically, records it right then and there, and loops it back around, records a new musical improv loop, and on and on ad nauseam until he's got like 18 tracks going and your head is spinning and you feel like you dropped some crazy acid. It gets all discordant and melancholy. Definitely not what I was in the mood for. And his opening act went on forever. We were trying so hard to be polite, but pretty much everyone in my group of friends was ready to poke our eyes out.
So the concert finally went on and everything, but when my roomates (of which eachroad was also one of) and I got home that night, we pressed play on the answering machine, and ......wait for it.... what should start playing, but about 20 minutes of Andrew Bird, haunting us by leaving a very lengthy musical message. What probably happened was that one of our cell phones called home by accident by being pressed into a purse or pocket, and therefore recorded a portion of the concert, but our theory then was that it was the ghost of Andrew Bird, haunting us with his dizzying musical sounds.
*FYI, I must insert a disclaimer here that I really do believe that Andrew Bird is a talented musical artist, and my musical tastes have changed since the days of this story....nowadays I find myself liking me some Andrew Bird. But back then, I was in a bad place and much in the mood for some candy-like music.
What gameshow or reality show would you kick butt on?
What else but The Price Is Right? I grew up watching this every single day, and I am really good at it. If I am ever terminally ill and am able to hook up with the Make-A-Wish foundation, my wish would probably be to compete on the show. Even though I couldn't really utilize the prizes, because obviously then I'd be dying. But at least I would die happy, and I wouldn't die without being able to hold Bob Barker's weird little microphone. (His actual microphone, you sickos.)
Most of the highlights of my last relationship involved watching The Price Is Right together on weekday mornings before we went to work. I'm not sure if this speaks to how sad my last relationship was or how deep my love for The Price is. Maybe both.
What time period would you have lived in, if you could have lived at any time?
How weird; I was just going to write about this the other day.
I am obsessed with the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. I pester my grandma with questions about what it was like when she was growing up, I have boxes full of reproduction and real vintage fabric from that era, and I drool over dresses and clothing from that time period. Sometimes I fantasize about being a 1950's housewife and wearing aprons and fixing fabulous suppers and having a bunch of little kids running around in the cul-de-sac wearing cowboy hats and riding stick horses. And it makes me happy. I think that it is perhaps the simple, worry-free, Norman Rockwell type image that I have in my head of it all that makes me want to revisit the time period. In reality, I know that it was pretty much like life as it is now, except with more social stigma and less civil rights and cuter clothing standards.
There is this guy at my office who seriously seems like he stepped straight out of the 1950s. He wears a suit and a porkpie hat to work every day (everyone else wears jeans or business casual), had a flat top hair cut up until a couple months ago, keeps his office sparkling clean & neat, and always talks and greets people so cordially, like everything's just swell. He is a pretty cool dude. I guess I could just take a lesson from him and live in the now, but keep the good things from that time.
