I dunno, the website had an "at the door" price for tickets...and I have friends to stay with in Seattle. But I've decided not to go. Cut our vacation time in Portland/visit with friends short, drive to Seattle (3 hrs), go to a con I wouldn't normally go to (I'm not into video games - kind of into tabletop games but I didn't get excited about any of the exhibitors), see JoCo with 5,000 others instead of the 200 to 400 I'm used to, and have to restrain myself from stalking him at his "booth", well, even though I would love to see him, it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
A friend of mine is heading off to PAX in a few hrs b/c he knows the guy at HotHead Studios. I handed him some cash, pointed him in the direction of Seattle and told him not to return without an autographed copy of Wheaton's book, dedicated to me.
He's a gamer, programmer, geek and my concert buddy: we saw JoCo together a few months ago and are going to P&S next month. I can't wait for his stories. I'm SURE he'll be at the JoCo concert there.
Heh, he'll be at PAX and I'll be at Jimmy Buffett. Life is funny like that.
There may be "at the door" prices, but the chance of getting an "at the door" ticket is infinitesimal. Considering the number of people that are going, you'd probably have to get there and start lining up yesterday to stand a chance.
You should totally go! If I lived anywhere remotely close I would. Alas, Ontario is pretty far. One of these years I'll make a mini-vacation of it and fly out. And yes, it really caters to every kind of gamer.
Bry: Where were you, musically, when you started high school? What were your musical interests at that point?
When I started high school? Well, I'd been playing drums in the junior high and elementary school band -- that was my instrument of choice in school. Snare drum, mostly - there wasn't any stage band, or jazz band, until high school. But in high school I did continue playing drums - I did snare drums in the concert band, snare drums in the marching band, and for the first couple of years I played jazz drums. I was not a very good jazz drummer as a high school student.
Bry: And now of course you have no real drums.
Now I don't have any actual drums, yes. And also at that point I was sort of playing stuff on the piano, not really reading music -- 'cause that took too long -- but playing by ear, stuff on the piano. And I had been learning guitar at that point, sort of playing through various song books, learning chords and practicing playing and singing. And at some point in high school I just sort of transitioned from drums to guitar, because it was easier to carry around and more interesting.
Took a day off to refill the well (with beer). Except now my bucket is missing. Also my pants and 300 dollars.
Well = metaphorical source of inspiration Bucket = metaphorical means of extracting inspiration from its metaphorical source, with a nod to an Internet meme Pants, $300 = items lost during now-irrecollectable hijinks resulting from the boozy day/night off. Perhaps he was seeking inspiration for his dance craze in a den of iniquity.
That's my take, anyway. Dude makes his 140 characters count.
There's a scene in the comic Cerebus where he drinks a BUCKET OF SCOTCH a day, and then spends the rest of the day falling off his barstool, getting distraught because he can't find his "buggid", then sees it and climbs the barstool to get to it. Then he falls off the barstool again in excitement.
The image of him being so happy to see it, drunkenly yelling "BUGGID!" has permanently ruined the word for me.
That person who just dropped by is the wife of a guitar player who's a friend of mine who I play poker with and lives in the neighborhood.... He and I and my sister-in-law and another friend of ours have been recently getting together in a rehearsal studio and playing like 80's cover songs together. I've been playing bass and it's just the most fun thing I've ever done. I'd forgotten how much fun it is to learn music and play music with other musicians. So yeah, I've been thinking a lot about having a band, I think that would be great fun. I hope to do that some day.
Unless we hear a new song very soon, or JoCo announces some kind of fancy remix contest, this is my wishful thinking that the tweet hints at a new JoCo song in Rock Band. What else would he be exporting source tracks for?
I could completely not know what a source track is though.
I remember him saying somewhere recently (the Talk with JoCo series, maybe?) that he really wanted to release more source tracks, so it might just be the completion of a long-held idea. Another remix contest could be a lot of fun.....
Just....that intro, man! I got to see it live as well, and you could tell alot of people in the audience weren't familiar with her version and were really psyched to hear it.
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But I've decided not to go. Cut our vacation time in Portland/visit with friends short, drive to Seattle (3 hrs), go to a con I wouldn't normally go to (I'm not into video games - kind of into tabletop games but I didn't get excited about any of the exhibitors), see JoCo with 5,000 others instead of the 200 to 400 I'm used to, and have to restrain myself from stalking him at his "booth", well, even though I would love to see him, it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
Jutze
(leaving Germany in a couple of hours)
Also, I hear PAX is crazy about tabletop gaming. It's really supposed to be a con for all sorts of gamers.
He's a gamer, programmer, geek and my concert buddy: we saw JoCo together a few months ago and are going to P&S next month. I can't wait for his stories. I'm SURE he'll be at the JoCo concert there.
Heh, he'll be at PAX and I'll be at Jimmy Buffett. Life is funny like that.
(Have yet to read the PAX stuff.)
(edit: oops)
ETA: Just saw that this has its own thread. Doh.
CleavageField.
(also, Bridge over the River KY is my favourite. LOL)
Bucket = metaphorical means of extracting inspiration from its metaphorical source, with a nod to an Internet meme
Pants, $300 = items lost during now-irrecollectable hijinks resulting from the boozy day/night off. Perhaps he was seeking inspiration for his dance craze in a den of iniquity.
That's my take, anyway. Dude makes his 140 characters count.
The image of him being so happy to see it, drunkenly yelling "BUGGID!" has permanently ruined the word for me.
I'll see if I can get a chance to scan it.
BUGGID!
I could completely not know what a source track is though.
Or he could just be releasing the source tracks, as was once planned.