Cloud Cult FTW, Shootings FTL

 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/12/bus-driver-in-satisfactory-condition-after-man-opens-fire-in-seattle/

Shit, man, so that happened this morning while I was on my way to work.  Got stopped downtown, and my bus driver kept announcing that there was a “serious incident accident” like he couldn’t decide which.  Didn’t think much of it, because bus drivers generally say weird things around here, and I’ve heard some weird, melodramatic announcements before, so I didn’t think much of it.  When we passed I saw two buses, so I was like “meh, bus must have hit another bus… Why are there so many freakin’ cops around, though?”

Only remembered to look it up after I got a work e-mail saying service was mostly back to normal.

So, yeah.  That’s, you know, great.  Third random shooting in Seattle in the last year.  The fact that we shit ourselves every time it happens tells you how NOT dangerous this city is on average, but it still seems to be happening more frequently and that bothers me.

I went to a Cloud Cult concert yesterday.  It was fucking amazing.  It was an acoustic set in this cabin on a campground.  There was only seating for a hundred people inside, and they said the rest of us could stare in the windows like weirdos.  Alicia found a spot that was technically inside—like, in a hallway kinda thing near the back, where all the equipment was—with huge-ass open windows RIGHT NEXT TO THE STAGE.  By the time I got there,  Brolicia’d staked out a spot directly in front of these huge windows that might as well have been glass doors, and they were wide open.  Some people came by and were like “hey the band’s gonna be walking through here so make sure there’s room” and we were like LOLK DEFINITELY GONNA MAKE ROOM FOR THE BAND THAT’S GONNA WALK DIRECTLY BY US!!!!

It was amazing, you guys.  Had this been a real stage, we would have essentially been… back stage, I guess.  Just barely off to the side of stage left.  Clint took one picture.  We were literally about 4 feet away from the drummer.  I spent a huge chunk of the concert making eye contact with the cello player.

They were fucking amazing.  It always surprises me when a band can manage to play the same songs for years and still do it with emotion in their voices, in their eyes.  Most of them seemed to tear up at certain songs throughout the concert.  It was fucking perfect.  PERFECT.

I didn’t cry!  Not like the last one, ooooopsohwellnoonecouldseemeanyway.  Simply because the band was LOOKING AT ME and I didn’t want to just weep.  Besides, I have the ugliest cry face ever.  That shit is unreal.  I look like a wounded pug.  Not gonna show that face to Cloud Cult, thank you and good night.  But shit, man, it was a close call.  And they played Journey of the Featherless which DW put on a mix he made for me while he was in Mexico and fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck if anything was gonna kill me, it was that.  Somehow I made it.

OH and also it was being filmed for KEXP (local non-profit radio station), which means there’s a good chance my torso will show up on the internet since I was right in front of the window.  If they filmed the drummer at all, my body (if not my face, dunno, they were sitting and we were standing) will be all up on the internet soon.  WEIRD.  DOUBLY glad I didn’t have Ugly Pug Face on.

ANYWAY this is basically DW’s favorite band, as well as all his friends who are camping right now.  Ha ha ha ha ha sucks to be you guys.  Super glad I didn’t go on that trip, man.  I was pretty close to making it, but we had like 7 fucking issues revolving around it that didn’t resolve themselves in time for me to plan/pack/take time off/etc.  He really wanted me to come and I was like sorry brah and then I got to experience the most amazingly intimate concert of my life.

I was walking on air for a couple hours afterward.  Just fucking dancing inside.  So amazing.  SO AMAZING.

Passed the band again on our way out, they were talking to everyone outside the cabin.  Brolicia fled the scene and I didn’t wanna lose track of them, but I also wanted to stay and talk to them ugghhhh.  I heard the cello player (shut up names are for people who read the Wikipedias on every band they love which is usually me but I keep forgetting) say they plan on doing more stuff like this in the future.  I made sure to catch his eye as I walked out, kept looking back and smiling at him, simply because he was the one I saw the most due to positioning of the band.

IT WAS SO FUCKING GREAT YOU GUYS I WANT TO DO THIS KIND OF THING FOREVER ALWAYS.

Kay that’s all.