Tonight I attended the Punch Brother's show in Park City. The song you should now be listening to was the song with which they opened their set and it was, if you can believe it, even better in person than that recording.
I was able to attend because of the truly magnificent generosity of my dear Matt, who decided that I needed to experience Punch Brothers live and so bought me a ticket as a birthday gift (somewhat prematurely, as my birthday is not till September).
Technically he bought me two tickets, though I intend to repay him for the second. The goal was for me to bring someone to the show with me. Unfortunately, it turns out that none of my friends love me enough to come see a band in Park City that most of them have never heard of, which hurt to discover, btw you guys (or, in the case of a few, they HAD heard of the band, they just had lame excuses like poverty or hanging out with their wife's sister who was in town for a short while).
As such, I ended up attending alone. Which was fine except for the part where all of my witty conversation and observations were wasted with no one to hear and inevitably appreciate them. Which is why I'm sharing them with you all now.
So, without further ado, here is a small selection of the conversations I WOULD have had tonight, had I had anyone to have them with....
....wow...it turns out I did not need to leave nearly so early to get up here. How shall I pass the hour and 45 minutes until the show starts? Staring at nothing? Sounds good....
....these people in front of me literally just pulled out 5 bottles of wine...
....This opening act is so boring that I'm daydreaming about getting a blood clot in my leg from this chair so I can leave to go take care of it...
....HOLY COW I LITERALLY CANNOT HANDLE WHAT AMAZING MUSICIANS THESE MEN ARE!!!....
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| mostly a picture of the drunk people in front of me, but also of the band all tiny at the front |
....Chris Thile! So nerdy! So adorable! Might very possibly be the most awkward dancer in the entire world. Half the time he dances like Scott Pilgrim, the other half like he just needs to pee reeeeeally bad. He is an even more awkward dancer than Chris Martin....
....Dear Utah, please stop being so tacky and leaving 10-40 minutes early so you can "beat the traffic"....
....And THAT is how you play a bass solo!....
....My mind is still being blown by these guys. Totes 100% worth it!....
....WHAAAA???? Is he seriously busting out his Bach right now?! From memory of course. And this huge crowd of drunk people is actually digging it? Aw yissssss....
....they drank all five bottles of wine, one bottle per person. How are they getting home?....
....SHIRT!....
....Oh crap. I may never get home. I am 1000% lost on this mountain. I will die here. I wonder if anyone besides my mom will miss me. Oh, this is the road I'm supposed to be on. Ok, we're good....
....Dear Heber McDonald's: You might have very fancy bathrooms and a confusing layout, but you gave me diet Dr. Pepper (so nasty) and onions on my hamburger. We are not friends.....
....Who knew driving Heber canyon at night would be so fun! I should maybe slow down? I'll probably definitely get a ticket if a cop sees me. And animals? But...Gypsy Kings are singing "I Did It My Way" in Spanish and my speeds remain marginally safe and if I do crash at least there's no one else in the car to die with me! WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! I'm SO glad it was a good experience for you. I'm just disappointing in the entire Provo/Orem area that no one went with you after I went to the trouble of buying their ticket for them. Their loss.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you had fun! I apologize for my poverty.
ReplyDeleteRiss, I actually meant to call and tell you you could have the ticket anyway since we'd already purchased it, but I forgot till it was too late. Which made me sad.
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