Update to Entry So I'm

Update to Entry

So I'm in Baltimore right now. I thought I'd do a little post on my evening last night. First of all, after school I go home and pack and carbomb and bass show up to take me to the airport. So paul drives by himself in his own car and marc takes me in his volvo. I get to the gate and the Southwest computers are down in the entire airport. So they just assume that our confirmation codes are right and just write them down on a sheet of paper and hand us a gold boarding card. Then we sit on the runway for a long time waiting for a fax to come in that apparently gives us confirmation to take off. Cause supposedly the plane computer is supposed to just recieve it by I guess the southwest computers, except they were down so we had to get like a manual confirm.

Anyway, get to baltimore and out in my brother's car at 7:30 and find out that we're driving to DC to see the They Might Be Giants show that I discovered a few days earlier and informed my sister of. So we went and met her and went to the show. It turned out, that it was actually "They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeny's" which means that They Might Be Giants will play music to the background of the stories that the McSweeny's people were reading. McSweeney's is a literay magazine and they had some of their really good writers read their stuff, as well as Dave Eggars who was like the MC for McSweeney's. He ended up reading an excerpt from his book which incredibly hilarious and good, and my older brother Joe ended up buying it. Before that, this lady Sarah Vowell read an excerpt from her book which I ended up buying. It's called the Partly Cloudy Patriot, and it's all these short stories about her life pertaining to history. The particular chapter she read was "God Will Give You Blood to Drink in a Souvenir Shot Glass."

Yeah, DAMN hilarious, and that was just a snippet. Marc and Joanna should appreciate the starbucks reference as well. Anyway, so TMBG would do a song inbetween each reading, and also do musical accompaniments to the readings.

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I wanted to give a little description of the readers and the show. The first reader was Arthur someone, and he read his short story "Rosaline's Dog" which was pretty funny itself. Basically, there's Rosaline's dog and he always wants to stick his hand in the cage but is told not to, so eventually he does and nothing happens and so he suddenly hears the dog say "let me out" and he thinks he's crazy, but says "well, even if the dog didn't tell me to let it out it still wouldn't hurt" so he lets the dog out and it bites him, which causes him to start growing hair on the spot he was bitten, and slowly turns into a dog, and eventually rosaline's dog comes back from running away and he and the dog end up making out which cuases him to further become a dog and rosaline's dog less a dog, and then the dog turns into a young woman and the narrator a dog, and he's put into the cage in place of Rosaline's dog and somehow the dog that is now a young woman has become the new "Rosaline" type character in that it's her dog (I've no idea what happens to Rosaline).

The next reader was an 18 year old african american girl who I guess was tought to write creatively through some non-profit organization affiliated with McSweeny's, and she read three pieces, one was why she writes, one was an embarassing moment at school for her, and the other was I guess her first time having sex. All three were very well written, all three had many references to black history which was really cool, and all three took a lot of courage to read in front of so many people (but she did fine with it). The way she read reminded me of the beatnic stuff.

Then was Sarah Vowell who's book I bought.

Then Dave Eggars read a chapter from his book, the one my brother bought, and it was basically him and his friend Hand were driving in Estonia I think and they ponder highschool, and basically highschool dances and making out with girls at highschool dances. It was really funny, I can't wait to finish mine and borrow joe's.

Last was this guy who read an excerpt from his book Hobo, and supposedly he himself was a hobo just riding around trains and stuff, and it (and he) was really hoaky, and obviously not truly a hobo but decided to be cool and be one, and it was just dumb.
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Then, there was a ten minute intermission, and TMBG got back on and played for about 30-40 minutes. They did Older, Actual Size, Dr. Worm, and a couple others. It was really great. Afterwards, we went to Friday's and had dinner at midnight, and then around two or two thirty starte the trek home from DC to Baltimore and I was actually the designated driver as I was the only one sober. Anyway, I'll update later, maybe monday about the Ben Folds concert.

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