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Mar. 30th, 2003 03:49 pmWow, the kitty in this post looks a lot like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenwrites's kitty Hippolyta, also known as My Apprentice in the Sith Academy.
My Saturday in a nutshell: marching, dying, and singing. And ice cream.
In the morning/early afternoon there was a huge peace rally in Boston. Crowd-size estimates range from 15,000 to 30,000. I marched with my mom and some friends. Mom had to cut out early because she is still tired from her trip, plus she hurt her back on the last day. :( The weather was quite warm for this time of year -- 65-70F the whole time -- and mostly nice with a few scattered sprinkles of rain. Luckily, it cleared up and the sun was shining strongly at the moment when we did our die-in -- everyone lay down on the streets pretending to be dead. That was super-cool and looked really impressive in the aerial shots on the evening news: ten or more thousand people lying dead in the streets of Boston.
After the rally, as usual, I was exhausted. Basically hung around mom's place for several hours, with mom and my friend M., and eventually we headed out to Davis Square for dinner and concert. We finished dinner (crepes mmm) by about 6:45 and the concert wasn't till 8 so we hung around being bored for a while. ;) Finally we went into the theater, and mom and M. went to the bathrooms, and as I was waiting for them to return, I saw two of M.'s housemates enter. It turned out they hadn't known M. was going to this concert, and he hadn't know they were going! LOL.
Anyway, we heard The Bobs perform, and as always, it kicked ass! The Bobs rule! They opened with the Helmet Song, which always makes me think oftiggrrl and giggle. They did many of their older classics as well as some of their newer stuff.
You haven't lived until you've heard the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" done a capella, and the Doors' "Light My Fire" as a 16th-century English madrigal. :) They do "Purple Haze" at pretty much every concert I go to, and it always has me riveted. You just can't believe the things Joe Bob can do with his mouth. Whoa.
They tried to stay away from political stuff mostly; at one point the between-songs witty banter veered that way and Amy Bob was like, "I thought we agreed we wouldn't get all political" and Matthew Bob was all, "yeah, sorry, I'm just sayin'," and stopped. But later they did their song "Kill Your Television," the lyrics of which are all bumper stickers, and they stuck in some more recent ones like "Texas has oil, let's bomb them too" and "How did our oil get under their sand?"
Afterward we had ice cream because you always get a "buy one get one free" coupon in the concert program book. Alas, in the car on the way home, I put in my Bobs tape of "Songs for Tomorrow Morning," possibly my favorite of all their albums*, and the tape broke! :( I shall have to run off to bobs.com and see if I can get it on CD. Snif. I wanted to listen to "Dictator In a Polo Shirt" again! Wah!
* but I say that about almost every Bob album ;)
Ahem, anyway, so that was my Saturday. And now I'm wasting my whole Sunday sitting around doing nothing. Yay for do-nothing Sundays. I just walked to the store for milk and back, getting well-rained-on in the process, but who can argue with a little rain when you see little shoots and buds pushing their way up out of the ground? :)
jenwrites's kitty Hippolyta, also known as My Apprentice in the Sith Academy.My Saturday in a nutshell: marching, dying, and singing. And ice cream.
In the morning/early afternoon there was a huge peace rally in Boston. Crowd-size estimates range from 15,000 to 30,000. I marched with my mom and some friends. Mom had to cut out early because she is still tired from her trip, plus she hurt her back on the last day. :( The weather was quite warm for this time of year -- 65-70F the whole time -- and mostly nice with a few scattered sprinkles of rain. Luckily, it cleared up and the sun was shining strongly at the moment when we did our die-in -- everyone lay down on the streets pretending to be dead. That was super-cool and looked really impressive in the aerial shots on the evening news: ten or more thousand people lying dead in the streets of Boston.
After the rally, as usual, I was exhausted. Basically hung around mom's place for several hours, with mom and my friend M., and eventually we headed out to Davis Square for dinner and concert. We finished dinner (crepes mmm) by about 6:45 and the concert wasn't till 8 so we hung around being bored for a while. ;) Finally we went into the theater, and mom and M. went to the bathrooms, and as I was waiting for them to return, I saw two of M.'s housemates enter. It turned out they hadn't known M. was going to this concert, and he hadn't know they were going! LOL.
Anyway, we heard The Bobs perform, and as always, it kicked ass! The Bobs rule! They opened with the Helmet Song, which always makes me think of
tiggrrl and giggle. They did many of their older classics as well as some of their newer stuff.You haven't lived until you've heard the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" done a capella, and the Doors' "Light My Fire" as a 16th-century English madrigal. :) They do "Purple Haze" at pretty much every concert I go to, and it always has me riveted. You just can't believe the things Joe Bob can do with his mouth. Whoa.
They tried to stay away from political stuff mostly; at one point the between-songs witty banter veered that way and Amy Bob was like, "I thought we agreed we wouldn't get all political" and Matthew Bob was all, "yeah, sorry, I'm just sayin'," and stopped. But later they did their song "Kill Your Television," the lyrics of which are all bumper stickers, and they stuck in some more recent ones like "Texas has oil, let's bomb them too" and "How did our oil get under their sand?"
Afterward we had ice cream because you always get a "buy one get one free" coupon in the concert program book. Alas, in the car on the way home, I put in my Bobs tape of "Songs for Tomorrow Morning," possibly my favorite of all their albums*, and the tape broke! :( I shall have to run off to bobs.com and see if I can get it on CD. Snif. I wanted to listen to "Dictator In a Polo Shirt" again! Wah!
* but I say that about almost every Bob album ;)
Ahem, anyway, so that was my Saturday. And now I'm wasting my whole Sunday sitting around doing nothing. Yay for do-nothing Sundays. I just walked to the store for milk and back, getting well-rained-on in the process, but who can argue with a little rain when you see little shoots and buds pushing their way up out of the ground? :)
