audio: "touched by the hand

audio: "touched by the hand of god." (live, from reading fest '98) new order.

this weekend was, without a doubt, the best time i've had at Acen since the first year. and the first year was so cool primarily *because* it was the first year, and there was that whole first-year sense of wonder and amazement about it. this year...it was very laid back, all about hanging out with friends you never get to see except at these cons...and all in all, it was a great, great time. more than likely, recounting this will require at least a few entries. so here's the first...

THURSDAY NIGHT

right, so Thursday night is when it all began. i was allegedly to sleep on the floor of Jon, Eric and Tony's room so that we could have our practice at 5am Friday before opening ceremonies and all that. probably got to the hotel around...a little after 11pm or so that night. the main impetus for this was to make Spaz avoid having to get up and schlep my arse to Rosemont at 4am so i could go to practice, right?

sound setup in main programming was going on. we helped out where we could, but as Eric was in charge of sound for the whole weekend, and as Jon was also supposed to be helping (ConOps) and whatnot, we ended up sitting there for ages. and there was only so much we were allowed to/could do. i passed out across a row of chairs...which wasn't so bad, actually, as they were padded and i was quite exhausted. highly exciting. then Jon was ready to go upstairs, so we went up...and i later found out that Spaz didn't get to leave till 6am cos he was helping test out all the speakers and wotnot...>.<;;; so much for not putting him out any. but he didn't seem to mind too much...he did get into the con free, after all. XD

went upstairs, crawled into my sleeping bag, plopped my bunny pillow down on the floor, plugged earplugs into my ears, and went to sleep for about 5 hours or so. this was around 2:30-3am.

for anyone who may have done the math already, this does indeed mean we in fact did NOT have practice at 5am. Dale talked Jon out of it after i'd passed out, and actually most people (both in and out of the band) were betting we probably wouldn't, cos it would just be TOO MUCH. too exhausting. and Dale was just like, "if we don't know these songs by *now*, one more rehearsal isn't going to help us any. XD" which is true. so, sleep. sleep is GOOD. still needed more, but.

(poor Rich showed up at 4:30 though, thinking we were going to practice. and it had JUST been decided that we in fact were *not* right as he was walking in the door. ;.; so he meditated on the floor of Jon's room for awhile. and seemed pretty unperturbed, as it saved him from the parking nightmares to take place for anyone arriving at a respectable hour later on in the morning. XD)

part two still to come...

[slight update: upon careful reconsideration, the title of "touched by the hand of god" should really be changed to "touched (WHOOOOOOOOO!) by the hand of god" in accordance with the version i'm actually listening to. barney whooping. again. XD XD XD XD

more later on? perhaps... *sings* "...and if it wasn't for your big penis, i'd be a heavenly person today..." XD XD XD]