Wearing a Shirt in Several Stages
Sep. 23rd, 2023 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ateolfSo early yesterday morning I got a google call from my director about getting another stock thing like the one I got a few years ago that's about to divest. So that's all fine and dandy, but there's a horrendously embarrassing and unrelated part to this story! So when I first start working in the morning, I let myself dry out a bit after showering and all that and usually go about an hour or so before putting my shirt on. Well, and I'm more used to the meetings instead of the calls and almost am never on the calls (I find 'em kinda buggy anyway). Well, I know google is a piece of shit and doesn't default to no video like microsoft teams would do (and let me just go on the record again to say how much better in just about every respect microsoft's product is than google's!) but when you join a meeting there's a second screen before it starts where you can mute the video/audio first before joining. Well, the call doesn't do that and it went straight into the call and I had my shirt in my hand about to put it on and then there I am shirtless on the screen! So I turn the video off after (who knows? a second?) finish getting my shirt on and then turn it back on like [insert casual whistling sound]. It was kinda close up and so like only so far down as my shoulders or so and the call video is a smaller window (I think?) but yeah. Now I'm utterly mortified and horrified. Well, so then I somehow manage to make it through the day.
At night Mary Beth and I went to a shows or two shows. She'd wanted to see a drag show at the Hi Tone which was upstairs in the big room and then General Labor was playing downstairs in the small room so I figured I could go back and forth between both. I did try it at one point between two of the bands' sets but then I felt bad because she had taken all my bills for tipping so I didn't have any bills and then I'm sitting there like a freeloader so I only caught one act. Anyway, at the downstairs show we'd showed up after the first band had finished so I missed them. But then General Labor was good as usual. The next band was the touring band called Wailin Storms. I'd never heard them but they ended up being really good. They were pretty loud and heavy and kinda between post-punk and noise rock. They kinda had a "professional" sort of sound, but were good. And it was a little surreal 'cuz they had this fancy lighting setup and it's always kinda funny seeing something like that in the small room (or any small room). But they were good. I got a t-shirt and two of their cds: Rattle and The Silver Snake Unfolds. Last it was a local band I hadn't seen before called Pressed. At some point between sets Will, the singer for that band, came up and talked to me and said he was at my tape release show a few months ago (I remember seeing him but didn't know his name at the time or anything) and we talked a little bit and he was nice, I didn't realize he was in any of the bands at the time as this was before they played. And before the show, I had kinda listened to a few second snippet of Pressed and it sounded just kinda like bland metal and I didn't think I'd be into it so I went in kinda not expecting to but still with an open mind. But then they were really fucking good. Hearing and seeing them live, I think descriptions of "post-metal" are more accurate. They're very loud and noisy and do some weird stuff too. Will's a pretty energetic singer and does lot of hand gestures and stuff. At one point the guitarist did this very long guitar feedback and delay squeal-fest and the bass player and singer left the stage and went into the other room while the guitarist and drummer just let this noise thing keep going and then came back after a couple minutes and finished the song. Anyway, it's always nice to hear another good local band and be reminded that hearing five seconds on my phone won't be the same as seeing someone live! (Which, yes, I know this and it's why I gave it a chance, but definitely nice to have the first impression thrown off...I do see that Will wasn't always the singer and hasn't been in the band since they've recorded an album so maybe it was a different singer I'd heard and the vocals were the detractor? Whatever! I definitely enjoyed seeing them live!) Oh, I also picked up a Pressed t-shirt, they had a bunch of shirt designs and I liked others more but they were out in my size. But it's cool to just have any ol' one.
At night Mary Beth and I went to a shows or two shows. She'd wanted to see a drag show at the Hi Tone which was upstairs in the big room and then General Labor was playing downstairs in the small room so I figured I could go back and forth between both. I did try it at one point between two of the bands' sets but then I felt bad because she had taken all my bills for tipping so I didn't have any bills and then I'm sitting there like a freeloader so I only caught one act. Anyway, at the downstairs show we'd showed up after the first band had finished so I missed them. But then General Labor was good as usual. The next band was the touring band called Wailin Storms. I'd never heard them but they ended up being really good. They were pretty loud and heavy and kinda between post-punk and noise rock. They kinda had a "professional" sort of sound, but were good. And it was a little surreal 'cuz they had this fancy lighting setup and it's always kinda funny seeing something like that in the small room (or any small room). But they were good. I got a t-shirt and two of their cds: Rattle and The Silver Snake Unfolds. Last it was a local band I hadn't seen before called Pressed. At some point between sets Will, the singer for that band, came up and talked to me and said he was at my tape release show a few months ago (I remember seeing him but didn't know his name at the time or anything) and we talked a little bit and he was nice, I didn't realize he was in any of the bands at the time as this was before they played. And before the show, I had kinda listened to a few second snippet of Pressed and it sounded just kinda like bland metal and I didn't think I'd be into it so I went in kinda not expecting to but still with an open mind. But then they were really fucking good. Hearing and seeing them live, I think descriptions of "post-metal" are more accurate. They're very loud and noisy and do some weird stuff too. Will's a pretty energetic singer and does lot of hand gestures and stuff. At one point the guitarist did this very long guitar feedback and delay squeal-fest and the bass player and singer left the stage and went into the other room while the guitarist and drummer just let this noise thing keep going and then came back after a couple minutes and finished the song. Anyway, it's always nice to hear another good local band and be reminded that hearing five seconds on my phone won't be the same as seeing someone live! (Which, yes, I know this and it's why I gave it a chance, but definitely nice to have the first impression thrown off...I do see that Will wasn't always the singer and hasn't been in the band since they've recorded an album so maybe it was a different singer I'd heard and the vocals were the detractor? Whatever! I definitely enjoyed seeing them live!) Oh, I also picked up a Pressed t-shirt, they had a bunch of shirt designs and I liked others more but they were out in my size. But it's cool to just have any ol' one.
