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Dec. 5th, 2011 07:48 am( Gaeilge )
Well, now I have indulged my Robert Carlyle obsession to the extent that the poor man is no longer synonymous with Begbie from Trainspotting, and I feel a little better. Now he's sort of synonymous with either a snarky woobie or AUGH SORCERER STOP GIGGLING, which is mildly better. I've rewatched Plunkett & Macleane (several times, that movie was hysterical and Alan Cumming plays an amazing snarky fop) and Formula 51, both of which are hilarious fun times movies. And I thought there was something else but maybe not. Anyway, I feel better. Begbie left quite an impression. Also watched Sons of Anarchy, which left me both going 'oh Tig, you stupid fuck' and wanting to bash everyone's heads together. A lot. If people would just stop being fucking stupid, stupid shit would stop happening! Admittedly, this isn't everyone. Just the core clan, triggering Tig and Opie to be emotional and do stupid things. Juice, thankfully, can no longer be an idiot. Chibs hasn't been much of one, so far. Happy's just... Happy. And kind of hilarious. So, really, it's just Clay and Jax and Gemma and Tara all doing immensely, incredibly stupid things. Unser... okay, I don't know why Unser goes along with it except that he seems to feel sort of powerless.
There! I don't think that involved any spoilers for anyone who hasn't yet seen it and wants to. I want to smack all their heads together. That was my impression of the episode. And we have one more to go.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra was awesome, as per usual. There were lasers, there was fire, the opening video montage was a little more pointedly political (apolitical? something) than usual, Chris Caffrey was his usual bouncy self. The cute bassist was back! There was one song where Caffrey was doing a complicated guitar riff and he stood behind him and did little bunny foo-foo ears behind his head. Then they circled each other for a second and then Caffrey returned the favor and it was adorable. And and the Winter Queen came up my aisle and I got to shake her hand, and at the end CHRIS CAFFREY came up my aisle. And stopped like right in front of me and my group of chairs and and and. So awesome. I always said if I sat in an aisle seat long enough I'd get to grope a guitarist as he came by AND THEN I DID. Okay hug him, but yeah. And the other guitarist was all, at the autograph lines "oh, you play guitar??" and about as glompy as he could be given the speed with which they rush people through the autograph line. I am so bringing a guitar next year to sign. And. Um. And. Our violinist was Roddy Chong, who is made of awesome and SPRINGS. During the second part they did the Requiem (The Fifth) and during the first female chorus part the dark-haired boys (Roddy Chong and David Z) took a knee while the blonds (Joel Hoekstra and Chris Caffrey) huddled each on a side, and during the second female chorus part they did it again and there was all the hair mussing and it was ADORABLE. And Hoekstra threw guitar picks and they did some songs from Lost Christmas Eve again! Jay Pierce wasn't there though! I missed him, I miss his Prince of Peace. The girl they got singing it was okay in the voice but her stage presence was really weird. Also no Good King Joy. I love Good King Joy! But but but there was fire and there were fireworks and there was annoyingass scrawny pseudo fanboys who kept standing up RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. There was much talk of yanking them down by their belt loops, even though we didn't. We did talk to them a couple of times. But they can't have been that good fanboys, when the Queen of the Winter Night song started up you could see all the knowledgeable fans (including me and the boy, of course) turning towards the back because that's where she's popped up the last two or three concerts, and they didn't realize it until she started singing. Silly, silly fanboys. And afterwards Chris Caffrey had on his giant jacket of blinkenlights and we made autograph linebuddies and I got to flirt with the cute bassist David Z very briefly and IT WAS MADE OF AWESOME.
Ahem. So, yeah. And before that we went to eat at this Thai place that was all the tasty, definitely a place to remember next time we go back to that town for some performance of something (seems to be mostly Cirque and TSO). Today, oof. Hopefully today will be a nice, calm day back to work and back into the routine and so on and so forth. I hope. Maybe. My neck and shoulders are still sore from all the thrashing around and headbanging.
Well, now I have indulged my Robert Carlyle obsession to the extent that the poor man is no longer synonymous with Begbie from Trainspotting, and I feel a little better. Now he's sort of synonymous with either a snarky woobie or AUGH SORCERER STOP GIGGLING, which is mildly better. I've rewatched Plunkett & Macleane (several times, that movie was hysterical and Alan Cumming plays an amazing snarky fop) and Formula 51, both of which are hilarious fun times movies. And I thought there was something else but maybe not. Anyway, I feel better. Begbie left quite an impression. Also watched Sons of Anarchy, which left me both going 'oh Tig, you stupid fuck' and wanting to bash everyone's heads together. A lot. If people would just stop being fucking stupid, stupid shit would stop happening! Admittedly, this isn't everyone. Just the core clan, triggering Tig and Opie to be emotional and do stupid things. Juice, thankfully, can no longer be an idiot. Chibs hasn't been much of one, so far. Happy's just... Happy. And kind of hilarious. So, really, it's just Clay and Jax and Gemma and Tara all doing immensely, incredibly stupid things. Unser... okay, I don't know why Unser goes along with it except that he seems to feel sort of powerless.
There! I don't think that involved any spoilers for anyone who hasn't yet seen it and wants to. I want to smack all their heads together. That was my impression of the episode. And we have one more to go.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra was awesome, as per usual. There were lasers, there was fire, the opening video montage was a little more pointedly political (apolitical? something) than usual, Chris Caffrey was his usual bouncy self. The cute bassist was back! There was one song where Caffrey was doing a complicated guitar riff and he stood behind him and did little bunny foo-foo ears behind his head. Then they circled each other for a second and then Caffrey returned the favor and it was adorable. And and the Winter Queen came up my aisle and I got to shake her hand, and at the end CHRIS CAFFREY came up my aisle. And stopped like right in front of me and my group of chairs and and and. So awesome. I always said if I sat in an aisle seat long enough I'd get to grope a guitarist as he came by AND THEN I DID. Okay hug him, but yeah. And the other guitarist was all, at the autograph lines "oh, you play guitar??" and about as glompy as he could be given the speed with which they rush people through the autograph line. I am so bringing a guitar next year to sign. And. Um. And. Our violinist was Roddy Chong, who is made of awesome and SPRINGS. During the second part they did the Requiem (The Fifth) and during the first female chorus part the dark-haired boys (Roddy Chong and David Z) took a knee while the blonds (Joel Hoekstra and Chris Caffrey) huddled each on a side, and during the second female chorus part they did it again and there was all the hair mussing and it was ADORABLE. And Hoekstra threw guitar picks and they did some songs from Lost Christmas Eve again! Jay Pierce wasn't there though! I missed him, I miss his Prince of Peace. The girl they got singing it was okay in the voice but her stage presence was really weird. Also no Good King Joy. I love Good King Joy! But but but there was fire and there were fireworks and there was annoyingass scrawny pseudo fanboys who kept standing up RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. There was much talk of yanking them down by their belt loops, even though we didn't. We did talk to them a couple of times. But they can't have been that good fanboys, when the Queen of the Winter Night song started up you could see all the knowledgeable fans (including me and the boy, of course) turning towards the back because that's where she's popped up the last two or three concerts, and they didn't realize it until she started singing. Silly, silly fanboys. And afterwards Chris Caffrey had on his giant jacket of blinkenlights and we made autograph linebuddies and I got to flirt with the cute bassist David Z very briefly and IT WAS MADE OF AWESOME.
Ahem. So, yeah. And before that we went to eat at this Thai place that was all the tasty, definitely a place to remember next time we go back to that town for some performance of something (seems to be mostly Cirque and TSO). Today, oof. Hopefully today will be a nice, calm day back to work and back into the routine and so on and so forth. I hope. Maybe. My neck and shoulders are still sore from all the thrashing around and headbanging.
