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September 20, 2004

byrnaerobics

saturday was kind of a sucky day; i mostly worked on the starlite site and kind of moped around and stuff.

i had a lot of mixed feelings about sunday; sometimes, when i have a lot of plans, instead of looking forward to them, i see them as obligations and dread them instead. that's at least partially how i was feeling about my grandmother's 95th birthday party and the whole byrne-stravaganza.

but, as always, when i'm actually doing the things, i have a good time and my mood improved a hundredfold by the end of the day. just call me little ms. mood swing!

gran's birthday party went really well. i have photos that i won't have time to process until later. mom put out a great spread, and gran was surrounded by tons and tons of people. we had residents from the retirement home, old friends of hers from the neighborhood, younger members of the neighborhood, and all of her grandchildren were there. we haven't all been together for probably fifteen years. my stepbrother keith even came; we got to meet his girlfriend june, who i liked.

it's probably not obvious from the way i speak about her, but gran is actually not a blood relation of mine. she's my first stepfather's mother. however, she's been like a grandmother to me since i was a little kid, and we have found it simplest just to refer to each other as "grandmother" and "granddaughter".

so one of the most amusing moments of the day came when my mom's friend deborah was standing next to me and inspecting some beautiful old photos of gran that mom had done up on a piece of posterboard. gran was a redhead and has fair skin, like me. deborah said to me, "I can see the resemblance!" and then when we all started laughing at this, she said, "OH! wait, you're not related!"

at the end of the party, i relented and had a very small piece of cake, and a glass of punch to wash it down.

big mistake.

i'd had a sandwich earlier, but apparently that wasn't nearly enough; i went into full-on hypoglycemic shock, which hasn't happened to me in quite some time. nausea, the shakes, etc. i took my folks up on their offer of dinner at cracker barrell. my favorite meal there is actually pretty sensible-- grilled chicken tenderloin sandwich and a salad, and by the end of the meal i was feeling much, much better.

after dinner, i went over to christa's for the pre-byrne cookout, which was lots of fun. corn-dog was there and he was all over me! odd, i think that little dog likes me or something. as he was clambering into my lap i said, "don't you know that i'm a cat person?" apparently these distinctions are lost on him. cutie.

the byrne show was great! we occupied basically the entire first row and part of the second, and the first row was thisclose to the stage-- i was literally holding on to the stage for balance and leaning up against it at times.

at the first rockin' song he played, christa stood up, the rest of us in the front stood up, and then a little ways into the song i looked back and the rest of the house had gotten up too! we ran into our old pal dave t. after the show; he said he was up in the front of the first balcony, and he could recognize us from there. i think he said we basically looked like crazy people. HAH! we are crazy people! it was a total blast. i was actually airborne through parts of the show-- lots of jumping up and down.

when we were talking to dave, we decided that it would be great if we could get a big room with a video monitor and do byrne-aerobics, because that stuff is just great to dance to!

after the show, a few of us decided to stick around. we went back and hung by the tour buses, and sure enough we eventually got to meet the band and david.

see, i can call him david now, because for a few moments he and i stood next to each other in companionable silence. i successfully resisted all stupid fangirl impulses to babble, because it was pretty obvious that he was tired and kind of down and not up for a lot of fan crap.

we also got to meet the folks from the string group, the bass player, and the rest of the band.

we waited for a while to see if david would come back, but it was getting late, cold, and my body was starting to feel the ill effects of eating badly all day-- i was feeling kind of sick. so we took off around 1am.

Posted by lisa at September 20, 2004 07:56 AM | TrackBack

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security report over the radio during david byrne that i was afraid pertained to you or your party:

camera seized
camera phone seized
female escorted out of theatre bodily by security after drawing their attention by screaming obscenities at the people sitting in front of her. when security approached her, female grabbed the hair of patron standing in front of her and announced, "sit down, bitch!"

Posted by: rick! on September 20, 2004 11:00 AM

dave t. reported a SEA of camera phones taking photos... i'm amazed that any were actually seized. as you can see from sarah's blog, she managed to get a few and leave the theater with them. so did our pal molly. who's gonna take a camera from a woman who is terrifically pregnant and dancing in the front row? that would just be tacky.

although the two rows behind us tended to remain seated through much of the show, as far as i know none of us were screamed at nor had our hair pulled. in fact, a woman came and stood next to me, and i think she exhibited more enthusiasm than all of us in the front row put together. i found her rather irritating but chose to ignore her rather than argue about the fact that her ticket probably didn't give her a front row seat. i mean, it's a rock show, people gotta be cool to one another...

Posted by: lisa on September 20, 2004 11:21 AM

actually my photos left the theater before I did -- I posted them all immediately so that if security made me delete them from the phone, it would be too late.

I'm really surprised that anyone's camera phone got confiscated. No one noticed me taking photos, typing captions into the phone and then sending them. Maybe being left alone by security is another perk of having such good seats?

Posted by: Sarah on September 20, 2004 05:26 PM

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