hi everyone!!!
i saw j.bro play last night. it was so AWESOME! i'm sad it is over - i
always feel that way after a concert - regretful. i swear i wish i could
live my life in music because there is nothing i love that much as the
sound. and I got to chat with marvelous Terry M! Terry - it was so great to
see you and your daughter again!! I hope I get to hang out with you again
even besides potential Asharafest.
so i think i mentioned my past front-row-girl jonatha adventures in Borders
in ann arbor and LA. anyhow i met her twice in february... so i went up
early yesterday like i'd gotten in the habit of doing with the tori shows.
i almost forgot my concert ticket but then i ran up to get it. i dashed out
to the car holding many things. i dumped them all in the car and zoomed off
to detroit. cheerfully. innocently. not realizing that i dropped my ticket
in the driveway. hmm. by the time i realized it, it was too late - i mean,
since i was so early, i could have gone back for it, technically, but i was
like, no. i figured i'd figure it out later.
so i got there, parked, walked 8 blocks in the wrong direction, came back
and discovered i'd parked right around the corner from the venue (yay!
except that i misread the parking sign and parked there during peak no-park
hours and got a $30 ticket). i went and hung out and this crew person came
by and asked if i was a "fanatic groupie" and i laughed and said no. soon
after this other guy Bob, who IS a bit of a fanatic groupie, showed up and
we chatted. and then two others, so it was four of us for a while. and then
Jonatha came in to the venue (it was this small club) and said hi to us
briefly and did sound check - for a while we could even see it happening -
they didn't kick us out of the building until halfway through and even then
we just lolled on the stairs and the doors were open. meanwhile i was
rushing around trying to figure out the ticket stuff (i called
ticketbastard). and we chatted with this trememdous bigot who was the
busdriver. OH MY GAWD i have never met such a bigot. i swear he was making
these incredibly sexist remarks and then if that weren't bad enough he
started making racist comments too. i was like, i'm not standing here
anymore, and i moved. he was this little old white guy who kept saying
y'all. he said that he'd heard that michigan women wanted only two things,
is that right? and i was like whatever. the two things were... i can't even
remember. money and something else. i felt like saying "i'm a lesbian so do
those rules still apply to me?" just to see what he would say! but i
couldn't be bothered. he did say he would get me in if i couldn't get my
ticket. weird how people can be nice and such jerks at the same time, isn't it?
so baybee i was front and center. really. and the show was so great! i love
dancing around and listening and making eye contact with jonatha and the
band members, being playful. sometimes i would just close my eyes to hear
the music rather than have this playful experience and that was amazing too
because the music was just so GOOD! and there was a lot of back-and-forth
chatter, which was cool. ahhh, so great! i need more! <she says, slapping
her arm for a fix>. so then after the show i was hanging around outside
talking to mr. bigot a bit, and he asked me if i wanted to go get a drink
with him at the hotel. i actually considered it - what was i thinking? rest
easy, though - i didn't.
then i heard jonatha was inside signing so i dashed in to say hi. and right
after i did security told people they couldn't go in. (i think they wanted
her to get out already, you know). so i stood in a short line behind Terry,
and when i got to jonatha she told me it was so fun to have me in the
audience because i look like i'm having so much fun and that some people
just sort of stand and stare (she demonstrated how some people stand and
stare). and we chatted briefly, and i said something about how its so fun
and sometimes i just really wish i were doing that with my life and she
said but you kind of are (i guess meaning because i am going to the shows
and really getting into them). she was very nice and sparkly! i wanted to
ask her if she wanted to have coffee but i thought that would have been
pushing it! :-)
next time. we'll go out for coffee. :-)
hugs y'all ;-p
-Yael
