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Well, as my referral log has shown, I have been beaten to the punch on the pirate slash by livejournal users. I should have guessed. POTC "drabble" community(drabble seems to mean short directed topic writings) and do me capt jack a more, ummm, to the point community. Entertaining stuff. Please enjoy. So last night was my ultimate bisexual concert experience, Lisa Marie Presley and Chris Isaak. Both of them were absolutely gorgeous, like I knew they would be. Both of them sounded AMAZING--truly. Beyond that, I have to say that Lisa disappointed a bit. She still seems really akward---not very engaged with the audience, although she did thank us profusely after every song. But she just didn't seem to be interacting with the energy of the crowd the way I would have liked. Perhaps she will learn by the end of the tour. Also, she bizarrely did a cover of "while my guitar gently weeps"--bizarre in that she doesn't PLAY guitar. It was more like, "while someone else's guitar gently weeps and I stand here swaying akwardly." Still---she has a fantastic voice. And she writes good songs. So there is hope. And touring with Chris Isaak is a really great gambit because any lack of entertainment value Lisa might have left was more than covered by him. That man is FUNNY, with a capital FUNNY. He tells offbeat and offcolor stories, and he wears ridiculous suits (fuscia with a black glitter shirt, and then one made of out mirrors) as if he is in jeans and t-shirts, he dances, he plays a mean old guitar, and he just CROONS. So heavenly. There were psychedelic projections behind him and lights and mirrors and confetti. He had people dancing and he had a CONGERA named Raphael from Cuba who at one point brought his TIMBALES out to the front and did a 3 minute Timbale solo. My heart lept. God I love the timbales. He was FAST, too. Chris sang not my favorite song ("Dancin") but my second favorite ("Can't Do a Thing") and he did some real rave-ups and lots of crooning things, and old standards as well. He is just a consumate entertainer. I was well pleased. I also had a bunch of junk food (nachos, pretzel, birthday cake icecream!) and a beer. I did not take the merchandise table seriously because I still can not get past 1987 when I go to a concert. I still expect t-shirts to be $18 and to have a heart attack over it. Now they are $40 and I am just incredulous. But people were spending it, and there was one Chris Isaak shirt that was very cute---black with his name spelled out in red white and blue rhinestones--but SHEESH! $40 is unfathomable. But people were spending it, and Chris was brilliant in his marketing (he stayed after the show to sign autographs, but ONLY MERCHANDISE PURCHASED AT THE SHOW. Fucking brilliant.) After the show I walked out down the long corridor of chain restaurants and bars and thought that it would be fun to get some people together and do some sort of bar crawl of that place. Just to get all into the trashy glitz commercialism of it. Like a pennance. Today is meeting day, and tonight is LIVE. I am so excited. |
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