Posted By Sika on November 13, 2006
Saturday started out as an exercise in driving in bad weather and worse traffic. I was supposed to go to see a matinee of Native Son at the Intiman with my mom and her friends and their kids. There was a Sonics game, a play at the Rep, a gas leak at EMP, and 520 had been shut down for a while. Also, there was Disney on Ice. It took over an hour for me to get from West Seattle to Seattle Center. Needless to say, not knowing any of these confounding factors, I didn’t plan on it taking so long and got there after all the places they normally stuff latecomers were full (since everybody else was late, too), so I exchanged my ticket for a show on Thursday and waited for the play to be over so I could go to a coffeeshop with my mom and “The Girls.” When we left, it was time for me to drive to pearl’s so we could go to the Dixie Chicks concert.
It took me over an hour and a half to get there thanks to the rain (although I-5 seemed to clear up immediately after the 405 exit I got off on and 405 appeared to clear up immediately after the 167 exit I got off on. 167 actually cleared up one whole exit before I got off of it. It must love me.) Luckily, from pearl’s to the Tacoma Dome was relatively pain free.
Thanks to eBay, I got awesome tickets for about the same as the “cheapy” tickets would’ve been. We were up close enough to see everything but far enough away that we didn’t have to crane our heads up. Both Pearl and I noted that Natalie Maines didn’t seem to be into the concert in the beginning–not until they did a song which they wrote after the filmmaker of “Shut Up and Sing” previewed the movie for them (Mirella wanted to know if they were going to take me to that movie, which I hope they do and also I love that she thought of me). The chorus had the words “You can’t keep me down” and Natalie began rocking out to it. I have a couple of theories about this: One is that the quieter, more reflective songs about “the Incident” were in the beginning of the set and if I were Natalie, I’d dread going there every fucking day. The other is that until she sings the first kick ass, I’m glad about “the Incident” song, she doesn’t know if anyone is in the audience with the sole purpose to make her life miserable. But since we practically brought the house down (the bleacher-y things felt less than stable and we were singing along and screaming and stomping and yelling and we could feel the vibrations up through our legs) I think she felt safer. Alhough pearl had a good point in that Natalie didn’t say anything about the election until after 11, probably to make sure they wouldn’t end up on the news. How *hard* it must be to live life like that.
One funny, non political moment was when Natalie dedicated a song to K-Fed because “No one is dedicating any songs to him in his time of need.” The song: White Trash Wedding.
After the concert, pearl and I drove up to the Vogue and made it in time to have an hour of dancing. I thought I should feel out of place since I was in jeans for the Chicks concert. But I guess I’m goth enough to pull off pink flowers and jeans (hee.) The DJ was awesome, although i don’t know who he was. For the first time in a long time, music was played that I didn’t know and I liked–and even the songs I didn’t want to dance to were danceable. I had forgotten how much I love VNV Nation. I went to look for some of their music on my computer and then was reminded that I lost it in the Great Laptop Theft of whenever that was. So, I’ll have to go get more.
We drove back to pearl’s and I spent the night. pearl had given me a 20% coupon which I used to buy Absolute Sandman (which is cheaper on Amazon, but this way I don’t have to wait for it). I’m kind of afraid to breathe on it though–it’s SO pretty. I got the 5th book of the collected Ultimate X-Men and Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things. I also bought the new(ish) George R.R. Martin. I had been holding out for the paperback to come out and was about to give up and buy the hardcover, but it just came out in paperback, yay! I also got the new Isabel Allende book–I wasn’t going to, but it jumped into my basket while I wasn’t looking. And I picked up the new Imogen Heap CD and while I was looking to see if they had the Paperboys I found Gaelic Storm. Apparently they were the steerage band in Titanic–which was almost enough to make me not buy the CD, but there’s some good reels and jigs and some fun mash ups of more classic Irish songs. There’s only a couple songs that I think are boring, and that’s pretty good for me and an Irish CD. So what I’m saying is I bought everything that I’ve been thinking about buying but haven’t in the last year. And some of it is even Christmas presents. Not much, but some.
Currently, I have the Chicks, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Gaelic Storm, and Snow Patrol randomized on my playlist. If I had VNV Nation on there, I’d be extra happy, but i’m enjoying the combination at the moment. And I just made Fester’s recipe of Pumpkin Soup from scratch and it’s super nummy.
Now, off to jump through more hoops for the PC. I can’t wait until I’m jumping through hoops in an actual other country instead.
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