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[twincityhacker]

Other things I've been doing besides being sick in my room:

On Wedsday, I ushered a Rupert Randolf and the Family Band concert. I now know both what a lap steel is, and what it sounds like! Though I did not get up on stage and dance to "Shake Your Hips," preferring to dance in my empty asile of seats instead. It's also fairly easy to mash up the Charleston, club dancing, and snatches of Lindy hop to this band's music as well. The tango and cha-cha, however, are right out.

On Thurday, I had a ticket for the Ben Fold's concert, with Korn Mo as the opening act. Is "Freebird" a popular song? Because it got requested quite a few times. Though I only knew a single song that got played the entire night - well, two, because "We Are the Champions" got played as well - was Ben Fold's "Annie Waits." But I had a nice time, and snarked a bit with the floor fellow on the massive amount of security they had at the auditorium.

Today, I went to the Informatics Game Day. I played two games of Halo 2, and played quite a bit of Guitar Hero II. I was terrible at Halo 2, for obvious reasons... Okay, the reasons aren't obvious over the internet, but in RL I'm pretty uncoordinated, so I could hardly walk in Halo 2, let alone aim and shoot people. I was actually pretty decent with Guitar Hero II after a while, but for some reason it really made my arms ache. *shrugs* I mostly watched people after a bit. Also ate large quantities of pizza, something like five or six slices.

...WTF? Firefox does not recognize the word "okay." OK, is fine. Silly Firefox. = )

Sidenote: TORCHWORD TONIGHT! OMG YAY!

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[myrthrilmercury.livejournal.com]

Is "Freebird" a popular song?

You have NO idea. :)

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that's a "Yes, have you been living under a rock?!" then? I'm hopeless on the current music side of things. = )

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

"Free Bird" is also a thing. That is, yelling out requests for "Free Bird" is a thing. Hell, I've done it, and I don't even like it all that much. People just yell "Free Bird!" It's fun.

There was a very funny article somewhere about that phenomenon, and if I remember right, one of the members of Lynryd Skynyrd even said he'd done it.

(And do you remember that Giles has sung it on BtVS? He probably took an ironic request seriously.)

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Okay, that explains some of it. I don't go to many concerts - actually, these were the first two that I went to if you don't count a battle of the bands I went to once - so I don't feel so bad at losing at popular culture. As badly. = )

And I bow to your superior knowledge of Buffy cannon! I remembered that Giles did play the guitar a few times, but I didn't remember what songs he played.

[thefamiliar.livejournal.com]

Haha, there are way worse things to lose at. X3 Wiki explanation should suffice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebird#Popular_culture_clich.C3.A9

I happen to really like the song, but do humbly submit that you are probably not missing much.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Oh, lame jokes are the best. It's like... apple pie or something.

It does seem like a decent song, from what I heard from it. And anything played on an accordian and foot stomping on a cymbol must be pretty decent to survive that.

[the-crazy-lady.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what Freebird is, and I listen to a ton of music, so you're not the only one XD I don't go to concerts much, either. Evanescence last month the first real concert I've ever been to (not counting Maynard Ferguson, Glenn Miller Band, and Bamboo Orchestra).

I've been meaning to try Guitar Hero. Can't rent it, so I guess I'm stuck buying it. Is it any fun? Cuz from what little I've seen of it, it looks fun. Or at least amusing for a few hours XD

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

It was fun. I would have liked DDR better, but my hand-eye coordination sucks.