Seattle August 21, pre-Mountain Goats FAP in Lower QA

There's just three west coast in-store shows... Easy Street/Seattle on Monday, Amoeba/SF on Tuesday, Amoeba/LA on Wednesday... then they head east to do non-record-store shows in the midwest and eastward.

Since tMG are battling it out with Built To Spill for Non-Seattle Band That Plays Seattle The Most at this point, I'm not going to complain.

Hahahahahahaha! Eating good Thai food, getting drunk, staggering across busy street, wandering about excellent music store, and hearing/seeing tMG without you! :)

(not that I'd rub it in or anything...)

Yeah WHATEVER.

Rickey, you should definitely come!

8pm at Racha for a FAPThai... (across the street from Easy Street)

10pm or whenabouts: we head over all the way across the street.

11pm: R0XXXX omg c u in the pit <3 :D

Just a couple of "I, Anonymous" type scribes to a couple of people I don't know who were at the performance, first...

* the reason everyone at the in-store yelled at you to shut up in unison was because -- perhaps -- not only bitching about not playing songs off a certain album but also admitting you were drunk, agitated, and belligerent about it -- and then admitting that to the performer himself is not even close to being a good thing to express in the middle of said performance.

* I don't know if you exist or not, as you are still officially a rumor to me as I was off to the side in a HUGE crowd of youngsters and not in front to witness you, but there's an unwritten rule about a stage being a performer's domain. Getting up on the edge of the stage to do a hugglezy crowdsurf is cool in that neighborhood-kid-using-your-inclined-driveway-as-momentum-for-teh-awesome-skateboard-maneuver kind of way, and is colloquially permissible, and all that good stuff. However, if the rumors are true, crawling onto the stage like some feral animal to drink out of the performer's watter bottle off to the side is not only a blatant invasion of that stage, but it's also what some people might describe "very creepy" behavior. So thank you for disrupting the performer mid-song because of that. You're welcome.

(granted, all in all, it was all good at the end.. but the weirdness did slightly stain an otherwise great night out for all. I was glad to have hung out beforehand with A. Lingbert, Jaq, Kate, Jen, Morley, Jergins, Lisa, and met new friend Mark -- and at long last meeting Pat. :D )

Apologies for not coming to the thing, but I've only posted on here a few dozen times, and I don't know any of you. I'm sure you're all very cool, though. If you were crammed next to a skinny guy in a tweed hat, that was me.

Jeff Davis County Blues
Maybe Sprout Wings
Going to Georgia
New Monster Avenue
Woke Up New
Alpha Omega
Moon Over Goldsboro
One Fine Day
If You See Light
Wild Sage

I know there were others, but I can't quite remember.

Thanks, I really should. I've never actually met up with people that I've met online, so it's still a somewhat unnerving concept. Also, as a 19-year-old without a fake ID, going out for drinks isn't very easy.

The next croquet/house FAP, you should definitely be there :)

How does that (drinking the water) even occur to you? And if you really want to take someone's water, maybe you would wait until you weren't doing it on the stage in the middle of a performance?

And yeah, clotpoll, I met Donut, Jergins, and Jaq for the first time on Sunday, so it's not like we're bestest buds by any means.

I tried to find people after the show to say good byes, but there were just way too many people in there. Nice seeing y'all. I'll FAP again if another should happen.

Anyway they are all nice people and I will vouch for them, so you shouldn't fear meeting them (nor me when I next wander up to Seattlesville).