published on the internet Mar 6th, 2008
I’m seeing Matthew Good in concert this May! I got the tickets yesterday and I’m very excited. It will be the first concert I’ve ever seen in my life. I wonder if you can sneak cameras into the venue. I wonder if my Nikon D80 would fit in my bra. Should I attempt it, I wonder?
Because I figured if the guy taking the tickets asked me what the unfortunate looking bulge in my shirt was, I could be like, “THAT’S MY BREAST. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM?” And you know the guy wouldn’t pursue it because I’m sure that response would set off the Potential Lawsuit alarm in his head.
You see I am full of good plans.
Wow! First concert…EVER? That’s stunning, to me. Nevermind the bulge in the bra. Seriously?
Dang!
I know this is going to seem like psychic sibling weirdness, but I was going to post a ‘concert’ type of post here on my glorious bloggy blog this week.
Cuh-ray-zee.
I usually just use my or my girlfriends phone camera for concerts. Its sort of stupid them taking any cameras these days when you have phone, pens, and even glasses with cameras on them and the quality isn’t bad.
I could not BE any more jealous of you right now!
I don’t know why I forget to type in the anti-spam word every time. Maybe I need to take some Ginkgo biloba or something.
Anyway, can I suggest maybe modifying that to electronic breast. I think it might be slightly more plausible…although you don’t want to risk intriguing security too much, do you?
Have fun! I’m sure the show will be a blast.
You have to smuggle the camera in. When I was 21, oh, say FOURTEEN years ago, I was a huge musical theater geek, i.e. I used to see Broadway shows 3 to 4 times a week, buy the ultra cheap $10 balcony seats, would even second act ones I’d already seen and just slip into the crowd during intermission and see the second act again. Anyway, the actor Marcus Lovett who had once played The Phantom in Phantom of the Opera was called in with only two days rehearsal to learn the role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel at Lincoln Center because the star had damaged vocal cords. Well, being a Broadway geek I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, so I got tickets and took my tape recorder and recorded the whole thing. Boy, did I think I was the biggest scofflaw at the time! Me, with my bootleg Marcus Lovett Billy Bigelow performance. If only I could find that tape, imagine what it would be worth on eBay.
TKT: Seriously! That’s what happens when you live in the middle of nowhere and three hours from somewhere in all directions! Concerts become a luxury! It’s a crime! And dude! Psychic Sibling Weirdness represent. You should totally post a concert post!
Brian: I AGREE. And I am going to use that logic if I’m caught with my camera. I will demand they confiscate pens and phones!
Briony: You saw Damien Rice!! We are even.
CK: Maybe I am just stunningly immature but ‘electronic breast’ sent me into fits of giggles. It also sounds way more awesome. And thank you! I think it will be. I hope it is, anyway. I have all these fantastical expectations of concerts, having never been to one.
Daisy: That is the best story ever. Also it inspires me. I had never even considered the bootlegging potential. And this day an age, you can get some pretty awesome recording equipment. I will stuff that inside my bra as well!!
OK, so here’s the rest of the story…So I LOVED Marcus’ performance so much I waited by the stage door after the show and introduced myself and said hello and how great he was. And then the next day I sent him flowers and asked him to lunch on the card with the flowers. Needless to say, he did not respond to my ask-out. However, a year later I wound up working in the talent agency business at his agency so there was that dreaded moment when he first came into the office and my boss introduced her new assistant, me, and he must have really thought I was a stalker!
have a great time! Make sure you wear a nice bra now, just in case you get strip searched…lol
that’s pretty.. clever.
Daisy: omg. Okay, I can imagine how that must have felt when it happened but it makes a really, really great story. That is the best ever.
Angela: Hee. GOOD THINKING! *takes note*
Kelvin: You wish you’d thought of it first, admit it. ;)
Where.
I want to go!
We should meet!
Vero: It’s his May 20 concert! Check out his tour dates and you’ll see where!!