Today was really not my day at tech. First show went alright, didn't mess anything up or miss a cue. Drove Cait to lunch at CJ's with my techie homies. She made the mistake of changing in the car...some passerby's got a bit of an eyeful (not like that, sicko's, she was still clothed. Just had on a tanktop instead of a turtle neck. She can certainly blush, though.) Stole some pizza from the band homies and then went backstage. This is where my bad night started. I somehow zoned out and grabbed the wrong baton, proceeding to fly an electric instead of the legs. Yeah. Knocked two lights (combined value of over 6 grand) out of focus, one of which wasn't noticed until it didn't work properly during teh show. >_< Nothing permanent, though, both are fine now. But right after this, I sorta shamefacedly walked towards the shop to get a wrench or something. As I left the stage, Jeff drove the lift right at me. I dodged, straight into the bookshelves which were stacked against the wall. I was still in shock or something from flying out the electric and totally failed to catch them. Elaine and Jeff both seemed pretty pissed...reports indicated Elaine started swearing when they hit...she spent like 4 days painting the bookshelves. >_< However, again I lucked out...no real damage was done, just needed to rescrew some boards. And they'd already been broken before, so I didn't hurt anything that wasn't already hurt. To top it off, I managed to pass out during the show and almost missed a cue. Scotty boy kicked me just in time. Amazingly, Jeff wasn't mad at me at all after the show...just gave me a grimace and laughed that I could be so big and klutzy while dexterous at the same time. (He observed me swinging Evan around above my head and later doing some odd breakdancing.) After tech notes, I headed out to hayes for some pizza with chris, mary, devon, Cait, and nolan. Then headed with Cait (and nolan following) up to beth fagan's house for the cast/crew party. Mountain Dew is good stuff; fagan's house is even better. Most awesome view of portland, not to mention an incredible house. Managed to get kinda lost or something on the way to Cait's, but some some more incredible views...I need to explore skyline some more sometime. Got home by 1:40 after observing two poor souls trapped in ditches with cops on hand. Was rather glad that wasn't me.
I warned y'all I wouldn't be on aim much for a while, and obviously I haven't been here. :D Tomorrow is the final show followed by strike, I prolly won't be home until late. Kinda miss talking to people but I've had almost as much fun today as on any other day...almost. Still, twas an awesome day.
I reiterate, if you need to talk, call me...I won't be here for a good 48ish hours, most likely.
Song du Jour: Haven't found one that fits perfectly for the day; have to be a cross between Hands Down and Open Road Song, I guess. Dashboard for the spirit of the song (not the literal meaning) and Eve6 for the driving aspect. Something like that. Not really worth struggling over, the caffine is wearing off. Which means bedtime.
Posted by Viper37 at March 7, 2004 02:08 AM