The Good Kind of Drag
Eeeee, what an incredibly good weekend! A weekend like that makes any variety of boring work during the week worth it. It was the sort of weekend which goes:
"Shall we do another fun thing?"
"Dare we?!"
"I think we do."
"Dash it all, let's!"
(Only possibly a little less English; sorry to any American readers.)
Friday had about 9 interesting things going on on campus, allowing a leisurely picking and choosing kind of process. One class to go to, and then we went for bubble tea, briefly stopping off at the j-dorm spring festival; went to the basketball game to cheer Garon and whoever else in the team we could remember the names of (they beat a visiting team full of priests-to-be); saw The Incredibles in the lecture hall (free donuts); finished up at the Holi-themed dance party in the SU, with some awesome bhangra-hip hop stuff.
Saturday was Drag Ball, an awesome time. All my male friends suddenly became a slightly more glamorous Women's Institute, and all my female friends looked as gorgeous as usual as blokes, with added drawn-on moustaches. Stayed in bed all morning Sunday, did a little reading out in the quad, then went to a Badly Drawn Boy concert at the Aladdin Theatre in the evening. Support by Lissie and Adem, both very good; had a small chat with Adem at the end: he seemed like a really nice bloke, but it must be tiring to be that emotionally articulate all the time. Badly Drawn Boy gave an amazing performance, despite being in a bad mood and having problems with the sound. This created a bond with the audience, as we thought he needed encouragement. We were right in front, and he shook our hands from the stage. In fact he kissed Alice's hand, both because she is very pretty and because she had yelled "You're doing very well!" earlier. He also took pictures of the audience, (in which I think I have some kind of Quasimodo thing going on with my face), and played a really long amazing set. Pretty great!
And, oh! The campus is so very beautiful right now. Everything is green and blooming; all the cherry blossom is out, and falls like snow in the breeze. Just so nice-looking as to become silly.
Sorry, this entry is a bit gushing. Also, I will write about the rest of the spring break California roadtrip soon.
"Shall we do another fun thing?"
"Dare we?!"
"I think we do."
"Dash it all, let's!"
(Only possibly a little less English; sorry to any American readers.)
Friday had about 9 interesting things going on on campus, allowing a leisurely picking and choosing kind of process. One class to go to, and then we went for bubble tea, briefly stopping off at the j-dorm spring festival; went to the basketball game to cheer Garon and whoever else in the team we could remember the names of (they beat a visiting team full of priests-to-be); saw The Incredibles in the lecture hall (free donuts); finished up at the Holi-themed dance party in the SU, with some awesome bhangra-hip hop stuff.
Saturday was Drag Ball, an awesome time. All my male friends suddenly became a slightly more glamorous Women's Institute, and all my female friends looked as gorgeous as usual as blokes, with added drawn-on moustaches. Stayed in bed all morning Sunday, did a little reading out in the quad, then went to a Badly Drawn Boy concert at the Aladdin Theatre in the evening. Support by Lissie and Adem, both very good; had a small chat with Adem at the end: he seemed like a really nice bloke, but it must be tiring to be that emotionally articulate all the time. Badly Drawn Boy gave an amazing performance, despite being in a bad mood and having problems with the sound. This created a bond with the audience, as we thought he needed encouragement. We were right in front, and he shook our hands from the stage. In fact he kissed Alice's hand, both because she is very pretty and because she had yelled "You're doing very well!" earlier. He also took pictures of the audience, (in which I think I have some kind of Quasimodo thing going on with my face), and played a really long amazing set. Pretty great!
And, oh! The campus is so very beautiful right now. Everything is green and blooming; all the cherry blossom is out, and falls like snow in the breeze. Just so nice-looking as to become silly.
Sorry, this entry is a bit gushing. Also, I will write about the rest of the spring break California roadtrip soon.
posted by susie r at 8:43 PM
4 Comments:
Ooooh, did he sing Silent Sigh? Y'know, that song where he sounds like he's about to collapse at any minute from sheer exhaustion.
No, he didn't as a matter of fact. He played just about everything else though...
Sounds like a pretty ace concert then. Hour of Bewilderbeast was one of those must-have albums for me; I walked into a diddy music shop in Brighton where they were playing The Shining: I wanted the album on the strength of that one track, forgot about it, and then got terribly surprised on Christmas Day when one of my friends got it for me because "it had this amazing opener called The Shining"....
why does this post not mention the fact I'm coming to see you on Friday, and that it's the most exciting and great thing ever?
Badly Drawn Boy - one album wonder (though some stuff from the About A Boy soundtrack was pretty good too). What was with the children's choir on that recent stuff?
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