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The Importance of Absurdity
Saturday, May 01, 2004
This, my friends, is why I like boys.
Josh: What the heck WAS Bud Dry? It has "Bud" in the name -- so it must be gross -- but what in the world was it?
Brandon: I never had it. It was gone before I turned 21. I just remember that Ben Stein was the voice that said "Why ask why? Try bud dry."
Josh: Yeah -- I remember too. And I was always confused by how beer could be dry.
Brandon: Maybe it was that freeze-dried astronaut stuff. That was big in the late 80s/early 90s
Josh: So would it be like...beer blocks? Or it would it be beer powder?
Brandon: Well the ice cream was kind of a mixture of both. So I would say that it would be kind of a mixture of both.
Josh: And it would still have that funky cardboard texture, too, wouldn't it?
Brandon: Mos def
Josh: That might be a plus, it would destract from the horrible taste.
Brandon: Plus you would be eating ASTRONAUT beer. The novelty would make it taste all the better as well.
Josh: If you WERE an astornaut, and Budweiser was the only beer you could get…would you drink it?
Brandon: Hmm......good question. The novelty still gets lots of points right now. So maybe initially. Do you think alcohol would still be present if it's freeze-dried?
Josh: I think that's a secondary consideration.
Brandon: Cause that might inhibit you from flying the spaceship
Josh: It's a spaceship! What are you gonna hit? There's no centerline to cross!
Brandon: But what if you come across an asteroid field? Or space debris?
Josh: This isn't Star Wars! We're not flyin' around the galaxy all nimbly-bimbly running away from the darkside! All our "spaceships" just go up and chill in orbit and such. There's no skill needed for that!
Brandon: They do perform experiments though. I think they should do experiments to see what the lack of gravity does to a drunken state.
Josh: I think that would be awesome. What would happen to carbonation is space? Would it still be fizzy?
Brandon: Maybe the bubbles would go in every sort of direction. Instead of just up. Or just stay static.
Josh: Would they even "bubble"? Would it just a big blob of beer just sort of floating around?
- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 4:45 PM
Friday, April 30, 2004
Lately, I've found myself doing a hell of a lot of things alone. Which kinda makes me laugh. Because I really have no idea when I got so independent. It feels right though. My mom thinks GSW is the reason. But I wasn't at all independent at GSW. I spent every waking moment with either the orchestra girls (and Matt) or Ian's posse. No, it wasn't GSW at all. Actually, I think I do know when it happened. Sometime this fall, I just decided that it was time to stop missing out on stuff just because I would have had to go alone. In fact, I even know what triggered it. Steep Canyon Rangers played at Cat's Cradle on my birthday. And I wanted to go. But all my friends either couldn't go or didn't want to. So I ended up not going. And after that, I realized how frickin'' stupid it is to miss out of cool stuff just because no one would go with me. So now I do stuff alone. I go to concerts alone (and let me tell you, going to concerts by yourself is muchly awesome). I go to movies alone. I go to restaurants alone. I go to basketball games alone. I go to Duke Gardens alone. And you know what? Since this fall, my level of confidence has soared. Because, let's face it--I always put on a good act (or maybe it wasn't so good), but I never had ANY confidence. None in the least bit. Ever. But now, I've got plenty. Too much maybe (although, the way I see it, as long as my brother's got more, I'm still good). And there's no doubt in my mind that it's because I started doing stuff alone. So today, I'm spending my senior skip day alone. Not exactly what I would have chosen, but given the situation, completely understandable (because prom is tonight, school rules say you have to go to 3 class periods to attend, so everyone's in school this morning and then getting ready for prom after they leave, which leaves me no one to do anything with). I had decided months ago that I was gonna spend my senior skip day on the lake, so that's just what I'm gonna do. And then, tonight, I'm gonna see SpencerAcuff (my parents: "AGAIN?!?") by myself, unless Patty ends up going. But the great thing is, after spending the day by myself, I'm going to Summer's after-prom dessert party with everyone (including Kevin, who's also not going to prom, because he's going to see Ben Folds in Charlotte). And that's what I love--I'm doing exactly what I want to do today and I'm not bothered in the slightest that I'm doing most of it alone.
- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 10:11 AM
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
So, I realized after I posted yesterday that I really didn’t do the SA show any justice. It was so much cooler than I made it out to be. The orchestra played with the band on New Horizon, Aftercare, Coldfeet and Moment Golden. And it was good. It was very good. They sounded great (not quite as good as at Six String, but that was one of the better live performances of any band/artist that I’ve ever heard). And even though Dave couldn’t get anything out of his acoustic and had to play electric on North Shore, it was cool. It was a nice change to the song. I loved hearing Chucktown again--that may very well be my favorite SA song. It’s between that and Beauty. I wasn’t expecting the orchestra on Coldfeet, which made it really really sweet. The awesomest part of the night though, was them opening with New Horizon. At the end of the song, they do their “Doobie Brothers shoutout” and sing “with me, Jesus is still alright” several times. And WOW. Talk about proclaiming Christ’s name. It echoed throughout the auditorium. It's not that I'd never heard it before. I've heard it live 3 or 4 times. Maybe it was just the knowledge that the majority of people there weren’t Christians, but it was so poignant, so…well, chilling. But yes, overall, the show was awesome. The only thing that could have made it better was if they’d played Beauty. But that’s ok. I’ll hear it Friday (hell yeah for Friday!). Oh, and speaking of Friday…I’m gonna have 2-3 hours to kill between the show and the after-prom parties. And I’m thinking I really don’t feel like going home and leaving again at 1am. Any suggestions of what to do to pass the time? A movie, maybe? I dunno.
Anyway, I took quite a few pictures Saturday night, but I took most of them without flash (I don’t like using flash at concerts and such and I was far enough away that the flash didn’t really do me much good)…but that means that all the ones without flash are really blurry. This is by far the best one that came out, which rocks since it’s one of the few I took with the whole band and the orchestra playing. There’s a few more here and the rest were blurry enough that I didn’t upload them. I also took some Sunday night, but the same thing happened, so I just have the one of Sandra. But I know several people were interested in pictures (and there’s a soundless video clip of “Driving”, which is fun), so have at it!
- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 3:08 PM
Monday, April 26, 2004
So, funny story. I wasn't gonna write about the concerts I went to this weekend, 'cause I feel like all I ever do anymore is gush about musicians. But then I was requested to do so. And then I was blown away by the show last night. So here I am.
The SA show was ubercool. Umm, rock bands with orchestras? Yes please. It was a lot fun, despite--no actually, because of Dave's not functioning acoustic and him calling Will a wuss. Very nice. That made me laugh. Those boys just make me laugh in general (and apparently, they make me look like I want to make out with them, but more about that later). And David Mikush band was great too. It was fun to see him play again.
But as great as Saturday night was, the Derek and Sandra show last night far surpassed it. After the opener, that is. I'm sorry, but I just have no tolerance for ridiculous worship leaders. The guy was a horrible writer and all the songs sounded exactly the same--including the ones he didn't write. I all but fell asleep during his set. But then, the ever-lovely, ever-incredible Sandra McCracken came out (wearing the cutest shirt too!). She opened with Times They Are A Changin'. There's nothing like starting off with some Dylan. Being that I was hardly 16 the last time I saw her, I hadn't heard any of her new stuff, I'd only read the lyrics. So it was fun to hear new stuff and not just Gypsy Flat Road songs. 'Course, anything she sang would have been frickin' amazing. I mean, there just aren't words to describe her. At least, no words in any language with which I'm even semi-familiar. If it weren't so trite, I'd say she sounds like heaven. Derek was also a lot of fun. He played most of my favorites, including Table for Two, Somewhere North, The Rich Song, Center Aisle and What You Want (the only songs that could have made it better would have been The Truth and Dance). It was a real treat. So was talking to him afterwards. Anyone who's ever been to a DWebb show knows the multitudes that hang around afterwards--nearly as bad as Bebo shows, except that with Derek, there's usually more males than females (whereas with Bebo, it's all females). But because it was a Sunday night (and because they mentioned they had to drive back to Nashville last night), almost no one hung around. As in, there was a group of 3 guys, another guy, two more guys, and me. And surprisingly, none of them talked to him for a long time. So I got to talk to him pretty darn quickly and I didn't feel like it was rushed or anything. And, he recognized me before I said anything (he couldn't remember my name, but he definitely knew I was from the .net). That was pretty fun. We had a nice little chat about driving home (as we both had long drives and early mornings), GMA week, Memphis, etc. And then I went to talk to Sandra. There was some idiot talking to her. He clearly had a huge crush on her (dude, who wouldn't?) and as soon as she would turn to say hi to me, he'd say something else. That went on for entirely too long. Eventually, he went to help Derek load the van. And then Sandra and I had a nice chat about Katy Bowser (ok, I admit, I'm a namedropper like nobody's business), school, driving and Memphis. It was, on the whole, a most enjoyable night, even though I didn't get home 'til 3am.
Here's my makeout-related funny story though (I can't believe I'm actually posting this, but it's really really funny, albeit at my expense). I walked into second period and was talking to my friends and so forth. My friend Lauren turns to me with this mischievous smile and asked, quite randomly, if I have a boyfriend. I told her no and she said that she didn't think I did. When I asked why her she asked, she told me this story--she had been talking to some junior that I honestly don't know. I might know who he is, but if it is who I'm thinking of, I've certainly never talked to him or anything and don't know how he knows me. But in any event, he was telling her that he went to his friend's orchestra concert in Winston Saturday night (read: the SA show). And he said that he saw me there (how he knows that I'm her friend, I have no idea) with my boyfriend. She told him that she didn't think I was dating anyone and asked him why he thought whoever I was with was my boyfriend (mind you, I was there alone). He said that he saw me talking to some guy and I looked like I really wanted to make out with him. As Lauren told me this, I was just kind of laughing, trying to figure out who it was. And then I realized--the only two people I really talked to at all that night (aside from Perry for like, 30 seconds) were Will and Dave. Egads! The really really funny part is, that thought honestly never crossed my mind that night! For either one! So I'm making it my mission to track that kid down and figure out who he saw me talking to...'cause I just gotta know. But anyway, my friends and I have been laughing about that all day.
And just on a side note for anyone interested, I have some pictures that I'll get up as soon as I have some time.
- thoughts provided by Katey Orr @ 4:43 PM
