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I'm in Los Angeles today...
... or, rather, I was in Los Angeles three days ago. <3
I had a wondrously fun time in Cali, but I can't really write about most of the trip because two days of it were spent in transit; and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kupoke and I basically spent Saturday sitting around watching sentai and playing video games. XD Lots of fun, but how do you actually blog about that?
I mean, aside from laughing at the horribly cheesy sex scene in Kizuna, babbling about Gaoblue and Gaoblack's blatant slashiness, and dying from the sheer amounts of really good crack that WarioWare Inc. was apparently made with. XD
So, since nothing really happened to me on Thursday or Sunday, and since Saturday isn't really bloggable, I'll just chat about the concert, which is what I'm sure you're all here to read about anyway. XD Maybe I'll blog the whole trip another time.
So, after we spent the afternoon in Little Tokyo - a very fun excursion to recount another day - we made our way to the Wiltern LG where DCfC was playing. Parking was hideous, there was only space on the very top floor of the structure. And it was cold. XD Anyway, we went inside, found our way to where we were going, and sat down.
(I embarrassed myself in here. I nearly bumped into a very obviously American guy, and as I ducked around him, instead of "sorry" or "excuse me", I said "sumimasen".
I'd been in Little Tokyo all day. Shut up.)
So we waited for a while. We were sitting in back of the theatre, at the tables near the bars. (Incidentally, this was the only sitting room there was. There were no chairs anywhere else. Though we might have gotten seats in the mezzanine if we'd ordered earlier. ... And we didn't order earlier because Jason had to delay the ticket order until we could be completely sure that I was coming, so, um, sorry again, Jason. XD;;) We sort of watched the theatre gradually fill up while some vaguely disturbing filler music played in the background. And we were sitting behind the sound board, so we were able to peek at the playlist for the concert. :D (I learned this from the girls sitting next to us, one of whom had done just that.) And then, at last, the concert started.
Well, the opening act did. And we were in for something like 45 minutes of boredom. The opening band was Plus/Minus, who I have decided I never want to hear again. They weren't ear-sporkingly bad, they were just very, very generic and boring. Not one of their songs interested me at all. So I spent the opening act in a kind of stupor.
... Which I came out of as soon as Death Cab for Cutie came on. <3 <3 <3 They opened up with The New Year - naturally - and went directly into We Laugh Indoors. Then Ben Gibbard talked to the audience a bit, and said that the next song "is dedicated to all of you".
They then played Why You'd Want To Live Here. XD Which is a very unflattering portrayal of Los Angeles. (The title, in fact, comes from a recurring line in the song which goes "And I can't see why you'd want to live here".) Afterwards, Ben addressed the audience again, saying "I hope none of you took that song personally."
I've forgotten the exact order of the songs, but they played almost all my favorites. <3 Aside from The New Year and Why You'd Want To Live Here, they also played Photobooth, For What Reason, Expo '86, Title and Registration, Movie Script Ending, and We Looked Like Giants. <3 <3 <3 They also played The Sound of Settling, Sleep Spent, President of What?, Company Calls, and Pictures in an Exhibition. Those last two songs were the only two on the list that I didn't recognize. They finished up with Tiny Vessels and Transatlanticism.
And then they did an encore. :) They played Styrofoam Plates, Blacking Out the Friction, and a third song I didn't recognize.
And they chatted a lot between songs. I almost wish we'd been closer so that I could actually see who was talking and when - I actually thought Ben was the only one talking, but Chris Walla was chatting a fair bit too. They talked about stuff like Plus/Minus, changing their own name, and what movies Chris cries at. XD (The Lion King, for one.)
Really, all told the concert was awesome. The lighting kicked ass - except for the end where it was shining right at US - and they did the coolest thing on Blacking Out the Friction. Ben usually plays his guitar while singing, but for Blacking Out the Friction and a few other songs he was at the piano. (I think he was at it for Blacking Out the Friction. I could be remembering it wrong.) There's a line in that song that goes "The hardest part is yet to come, when you will cross the country.... alone." In the concert, they dragged the pause out for something like a full minute, while the music went very soft and thin, and just when you were wondering if they were going to end the song there, suddenly Ben belted out the final "Aaaaalone!" and the music kicked back up to its former energy.
In summation, I do think it was worth spontaneously hopping states to see. <3
...And after the concert, I had my first experience with a concert mob. XD Determined to support my favorite band (and also determined to get swag), I lined up at the counter outside the theatre to buy stuff: one (1) extraordinarily comfortable Death Cab for Cutie shirt, and one (1) copy of Something About Airplanes. Though in retrospect, the CDs were cheap enough that I really could have afforded to buy We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes too. Ah, well, live and learn. Anyway, after I purchased those items, I swear to god the crowd around the counter got thicker. I barely made it out of the mob alive. XD
Oh, and I'm 19 today. <3 Happy birthday to me.
I had a wondrously fun time in Cali, but I can't really write about most of the trip because two days of it were spent in transit; and
kupoke and I basically spent Saturday sitting around watching sentai and playing video games. XD Lots of fun, but how do you actually blog about that?I mean, aside from laughing at the horribly cheesy sex scene in Kizuna, babbling about Gaoblue and Gaoblack's blatant slashiness, and dying from the sheer amounts of really good crack that WarioWare Inc. was apparently made with. XD
So, since nothing really happened to me on Thursday or Sunday, and since Saturday isn't really bloggable, I'll just chat about the concert, which is what I'm sure you're all here to read about anyway. XD Maybe I'll blog the whole trip another time.
So, after we spent the afternoon in Little Tokyo - a very fun excursion to recount another day - we made our way to the Wiltern LG where DCfC was playing. Parking was hideous, there was only space on the very top floor of the structure. And it was cold. XD Anyway, we went inside, found our way to where we were going, and sat down.
(I embarrassed myself in here. I nearly bumped into a very obviously American guy, and as I ducked around him, instead of "sorry" or "excuse me", I said "sumimasen".
I'd been in Little Tokyo all day. Shut up.)
So we waited for a while. We were sitting in back of the theatre, at the tables near the bars. (Incidentally, this was the only sitting room there was. There were no chairs anywhere else. Though we might have gotten seats in the mezzanine if we'd ordered earlier. ... And we didn't order earlier because Jason had to delay the ticket order until we could be completely sure that I was coming, so, um, sorry again, Jason. XD;;) We sort of watched the theatre gradually fill up while some vaguely disturbing filler music played in the background. And we were sitting behind the sound board, so we were able to peek at the playlist for the concert. :D (I learned this from the girls sitting next to us, one of whom had done just that.) And then, at last, the concert started.
Well, the opening act did. And we were in for something like 45 minutes of boredom. The opening band was Plus/Minus, who I have decided I never want to hear again. They weren't ear-sporkingly bad, they were just very, very generic and boring. Not one of their songs interested me at all. So I spent the opening act in a kind of stupor.
... Which I came out of as soon as Death Cab for Cutie came on. <3 <3 <3 They opened up with The New Year - naturally - and went directly into We Laugh Indoors. Then Ben Gibbard talked to the audience a bit, and said that the next song "is dedicated to all of you".
They then played Why You'd Want To Live Here. XD Which is a very unflattering portrayal of Los Angeles. (The title, in fact, comes from a recurring line in the song which goes "And I can't see why you'd want to live here".) Afterwards, Ben addressed the audience again, saying "I hope none of you took that song personally."
I've forgotten the exact order of the songs, but they played almost all my favorites. <3 Aside from The New Year and Why You'd Want To Live Here, they also played Photobooth, For What Reason, Expo '86, Title and Registration, Movie Script Ending, and We Looked Like Giants. <3 <3 <3 They also played The Sound of Settling, Sleep Spent, President of What?, Company Calls, and Pictures in an Exhibition. Those last two songs were the only two on the list that I didn't recognize. They finished up with Tiny Vessels and Transatlanticism.
And then they did an encore. :) They played Styrofoam Plates, Blacking Out the Friction, and a third song I didn't recognize.
And they chatted a lot between songs. I almost wish we'd been closer so that I could actually see who was talking and when - I actually thought Ben was the only one talking, but Chris Walla was chatting a fair bit too. They talked about stuff like Plus/Minus, changing their own name, and what movies Chris cries at. XD (The Lion King, for one.)
Really, all told the concert was awesome. The lighting kicked ass - except for the end where it was shining right at US - and they did the coolest thing on Blacking Out the Friction. Ben usually plays his guitar while singing, but for Blacking Out the Friction and a few other songs he was at the piano. (I think he was at it for Blacking Out the Friction. I could be remembering it wrong.) There's a line in that song that goes "The hardest part is yet to come, when you will cross the country.... alone." In the concert, they dragged the pause out for something like a full minute, while the music went very soft and thin, and just when you were wondering if they were going to end the song there, suddenly Ben belted out the final "Aaaaalone!" and the music kicked back up to its former energy.
In summation, I do think it was worth spontaneously hopping states to see. <3
...And after the concert, I had my first experience with a concert mob. XD Determined to support my favorite band (and also determined to get swag), I lined up at the counter outside the theatre to buy stuff: one (1) extraordinarily comfortable Death Cab for Cutie shirt, and one (1) copy of Something About Airplanes. Though in retrospect, the CDs were cheap enough that I really could have afforded to buy We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes too. Ah, well, live and learn. Anyway, after I purchased those items, I swear to god the crowd around the counter got thicker. I barely made it out of the mob alive. XD
Oh, and I'm 19 today. <3 Happy birthday to me.
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But you made up for it on those times you found the idol, making me giggle uncontrollably at her song and dance. XDXDXD
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...well, I was the dominating queen at something, right? Right? T_T
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Or maybe just pure luck in the starship Othello thing. XD
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O_O They played every single DCfC song I love! God, I wish I'd been there. Did they sound any different on stage?
Oh, and I'm 19 today. <3 Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday, luvvie! Here's to your last year as a teenager. Make it good. :D
Damn, if I had known, I would've given you the Like, Like, Love scanlation as a present. XD Maybe I could scanlate act 20 of the manga instead? After what Tokyopop did to it, it could use a makeover...
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Not so much, no. Aside from some of the songs having slight variations (Ben sang one line in The New Year with a different inflection, apparently changed one line in Why You'd Want to Live Here, and did the thing I mentioned with Blacking Out the Friction), they sounded pretty much the same. Only, you know, in person. <3
And much, much, much louder, but that goes without saying. XD
It was a lovely concert, really. It would've rocked if you could have been there. And that reminds me, I must rip The Photo Album and share.
Happy birthday, luvvie! Here's to your last year as a teenager. Make it good. :D
I plan to. :D
Damn, if I had known, I would've given you the Like, Like, Love scanlation as a present. XD Maybe I could scanlate act 20 of the manga instead? After what Tokyopop did to it, it could use a makeover...
Actually, I've been following the Fakephoenix scanslation of that. ::g:: You know, what you could do... you could go ahead and write the JJ x Drake x Ted threesome bunny... ;D
Or not. ::g:: It would be pretty neat to have a Neeksie scanslation of act 20, I loved the LLL scanslation. <3 Well, whatever you think is good.
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Oh, right. I've not read it, but I understand it's pretty good. The site seems to be down at the moment, though.
You know, what you could do... you could go ahead and write the JJ x Drake x Ted threesome bunny... ;D
I think I'd need
Or not. ::g:: It would be pretty neat to have a Neeksie scanslation of act 20, I loved the LLL scanslation. <3 Well, whatever you think is good.
Aww, that's nice to hear. All for the fandom and so on. :)
I could scanlate act 20, as it surely will take a shorter time than writing that threesome fic. Unless some insistent plot bunny bites my ankle... Hmm. We'll see.
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Really? I just tried it, and it loaded fine for me. Guess it got fixed?
I could scanlate act 20, as it surely will take a shorter time than writing that threesome fic. Unless some insistent plot bunny bites my ankle... Hmm. We'll see.
Well, either one is fine; whichever you think would be best. :)