Excellent Saturday
I spent the afternoon helping Tomas move into the Blue Room for his new rock/theatre thing ‘Tomas Ford vs. The Audience’. We moved heavy bits of stage around for a while and then built his sound system, which is an awesome shopping trolley of doom thing. It is the most excellent thing I have helped build for ages. Here’s a diagram:
It looks like he’s stolen a bunch of electronic equipment and bundled it into a trolley and hooked it together - the result is basically a mobile computer-based DJ system. It’s going to be a sweet show.
Then there was the birthday party and people came over for merriment of various kinds. As it turned out, there were more of them than I had either seats to accomodate or glasses to serve so I was a bit embarrassed. I think I will get nothing but glasses and plates for Christmas, which is fine by me. Anyhoo, it was the best fun. Plus, in another bizarre blog-life-meets-real life phenomenon, Liz showed up, bearing wine and potted cacti. I sent her an invite but didn’t think she would actually show up on account of we have never met before, and for a terrible moment I was about to greet her with a drunken “who the hell are you?” but my stars were in alignment and I worked it out. It was all good from then on. I think everyone assumed we were old friends. Liz, aka Boofuls, is charming and not creepy in the slightest by the way.
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I told my housemate that you posted that I was charming and not creepy in the slightest, and he suggested I put that on a business card. But then he decided that giving out business cards that said I wasn’t creepy was a bit creepy. So I’d have to amend it to “Charming, and only very slightly creepy.”
Anyway, I enjoyed meeting you and your little buddies. Hey, internet: this guy is pretty kool.
Comment by boofuls — Sunday October 22 2006 @ 4:34 pm
Nice diagram. We’ve had to take some stuff out (the mic stuff didn’t end up working due to interference from the trolley) and put some stuff in (more keyboard action this wierd space age trackpad thing).
Liz was cool and indeed not at all creepy; I assumed that she was a uni friend I didn’t know. I wish I could be like that when turning up to parties of people I haven’t met in person before. I fear I would probably come off as a bit overenthusiastic-style creepy.
Comment by Tomás Ford — Monday October 23 2006 @ 1:09 pm
Liz - ;) I’d be happy with ’slightly creepy’. Or ‘vaguely disturbing’, which is even better because it’s something you wouldn’t notice initially.
Tom - Putting the mic receiver directly into the desk is a good idea anyway, since your sound guy can control it then.
Comment by Mark — Monday October 23 2006 @ 2:03 pm
most of my good friends come from a party i went to on an internet invite - yay you for inviting a stranger and yay liz for going! and happy birthday. perhaps next time you are short of glasses you could tell people they all got broken at the extremely cool party you spontaneously had the night before with ten hot chicks you picked up at a nightclub.
tom v audience will be interestig but i have seen enough of his gigs to know i should be scared. eep!
on a side-sidenote, i have put the link to my blog in here. i hate myspace and find it deeply embarrassing to not have got around to creating a real blog yet, but it’s likely i won’t for a while so i might as well post it with this disclaimer of “yes, i know myspace is shit and no, i don’t add people to my friends list unless i have to because it’s such a mortifylingly high school concept” my blog is not as interesting as anyone else’s here either, but we can’t all be special.
Comment by serrin — Monday October 23 2006 @ 2:43 pm
Hey I went and looked at your link - your funeral post was great, and you have a cleavage-tastic userpic too. I would have commented but I left my myspace login in my other pants.
Comment by Mark — Monday October 23 2006 @ 2:57 pm
Tomas - I had the exact same fear. But then I figured, heck, I’ll probably never see these people again if they think I’m creepy. But then I realised on the way there that perhaps it was a trap! and I’d get Internet Killed or something. I do enjoy parties where I’m still alive at the end of them.
Mark - “I come with a sense of vague disturbance that creeps up on you with every minute spent in my presence.” Not the best way to introduce myself. Perhaps I’ll put the business cards on the backburner. :)
Comment by boofuls — Monday October 23 2006 @ 10:31 pm
Liz’s housemate: I guess I will start reading your blog too, since you are apparently lovely enough to give our housemate back, rather than capturing her and keep her in her cellar.
I know how tempting it can be, sometimes.
*waves*
Comment by alexmoon — Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 4:35 pm
Liz - No, I really like it.
Alex - Oh, well I shall cruise over to your site as well then.
Comment by Mark — Tuesday October 24 2006 @ 7:35 pm