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Shins Show

   Today was the Shins show. It was excellent. The other two bands that played, Bishop Allen and the Decembrists.
   I knew the term "Decembrists" was a reference to a historical Russian dissidant group, but nothing prepared me for the playing of the Soviet Anthem in full before they took the stage. I nearly swooned.
   Unfortunately I couldn't make out the lyrics of very many songs - sound comes in a bit distorted when you're sitting between the speakers. My life is so difficult. (I was backstage for the whole show).
   And almost as shocking as the playing of the soviet anthem: in the middle of their set, between songs, the Shins lead singer is talking and I'm not really paying attention but all of a sudden I hear "has anyone seen the guy with the green mohawk?" !!!

   As if the day couldn't get any better, Azver happens to be around when I'm finally done with loadout around midnight and gives me a ride home.


   In other news it turns out that Adrian, Azver and I all have best friends from out of town visiting this week. As such we've planned "Best Friend Night" for Friday and its gonna be awesome.
   On that note, my extremely good friend AARON DAVIS is coming into town tomorrow (Wednesday) and will be here through Saturday. I ahven't even seen him in two years because he's been sailing around like a pirate (no really, he's been on the only commissioned US tall ship, the coast guard Eagle).


   Exciting roommate bonding last night + Shins show today + soviet anthem at show + reference from the shins + aaron is coming to town = this is possibly the best week ever.


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   [livejournal.com profile] sivart13's account of the show: "...RIDICULOUS security people who yelled at me while I was yelling at famous internet celebrity Kris Fricke"

Poll of the Day
   The following is to determine to what degree people know what I'm talking about regarding certain things. While some of these words may have multiple valid meanings which appear as possible answers, please indicate the answer which most closely reflects the way the word is applicable to the Emosnail livejournal.
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HELLA?!?!?

[identity profile] basicallyasap.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
no, HELLOF, doi. As in:
I hellof just missed my bus because the driver didn't see me.

P.S. I am jealous that you had so much at the Shins Show...I should've gone, I didn't get any studying done :(

Re: HELLA?!?!?

[identity profile] basicallyasap.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
ok...am I capable of making a coherent sentence? Apparently not.
To clarify, I am jealous (but glad) you had so much fun at the Shins Show.

[identity profile] sivart13.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
I heard it as something like:
"Thanks to Bishop Allen and The Decemberists... and UC Davis... and thanks to the guy with the green mohawk..."

[identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha its highly possible. The full story actually is that all I heard was "...green mohawk" and was like WTF!? but everyone around me was too drunk to hear it so I couldn't confirm whether I had really heard "green mohawk" until after the show.

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"he Decembrists" — aren't they mentioned in Cometbus somewhere?

cometbus

[identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Possibly but I have no recollection of it. If you tell me where abouts (in the Cometbus anthology) you recall it being I could do a cursory search.

Re: cometbus

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'm remembering his quasi-marxist band he was once in.. have no idea where it is mentioned. Creating a Cometbus entry on the Wiki is something that needs to be done. We also have a need for a Davis entry.

Re: cometbus

[identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Only connection found by Google is that [livejournal.com profile] nancymae lists them both as interests.
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[identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Magic
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[identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Having a bad typing day Diane?

[identity profile] roxymartini.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
how did you write in russian on the submit button? it's nifty.

[identity profile] humblelaughter.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey Kris, I'm good by the way. I read your entry and had a bit of a flash back. I still remember quite vividly your sixth grade stories and how Mr....shit what was his name, Spencer?..really loved them. In them you used fake made up words. Boinks and hoozas and such. I was jealous of your talents at the time. An ability to create vivid imagery and fantastical tales! amazing to simple minded Janelle. Seems as thought those talents haven't quite left you. That's all. Funny how you met one of my best friends Mara huh. Peace out.

Writing

[identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com 2004-05-20 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Mr Springer I think you mean?

I took a creative writing class last year. I wrote more or less in a normal style for most of the stories that were due to establish that I was capable of writing "normally," and then for the final paper I broke every "rule" of good short story writing we'd been taught, on purpose. The result of that was The Story of Boot. Incidentally there are no made up words in this story, but a number of people thought I'd included a lot of made-up words just because the ones I did were so unusual and vague.

Anyway, I'm still hoping to actually meet you one of these days when I'm back in OC

And your livejournal entries are pretty well written yourself. (=
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