近ごろ私達はいい感じ
So, today I woke up for the Byrne blockade, which we won soundly.
After that, I met up with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
damienroc at Gordito's for dinner; we were briefly joined by theonlymegumegu and Max, who spent the whole time geeking about D&D. Whee. It made me glad I only play wizard characters in high-level campaigns.
Jeff and I went downtown to the Showbox after that for the Puffy Amiyumi concert (I got him a ticket to it for his birthday a month ago). We got there a little after 7pm, and the opening band, Quiet Drive was playing. They were a very stereotypical Seattle emo band. I really, honestly can't describe them except to say that. The last song they played was a sort of punk version of "Time After Time"... it was okay, I guess.
Then after that, Puffy came on stage. It was Ami, Yumi, and four guys as their backup band -- they had a bassist, guitarist, keyboard player, and drums. The gals just sang, and occasionally played harmonica.
To be perfectly honest, since I haven't actually seen their "Hi! Hi! Puffy Amiyumi" show on the Cartoon Network, or actually bought any of the music they've put out since 2000, I wasn't familiar with a lot of the songs they played. Infact, the only ones I recognized for sure were 海へと, これが私の生きる道, ジェット警察, and アジアの純真. They did say a few other songs' names -- like Tokyo Nights, and they mentioned "Friends Forever" because it's in Scooby Doo 2, and the last song they played in their set was "Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi" or whatever, the theme song from their show.
It was funny because they had papers with stuff in English to say, that they kept reading off to talk to the crowd with... like "We were in Portland before this... and I wanted Pho, but the place closed at 5! Then we wanted Korean BBQ but that place closed at 10... are we cursed or what?? Can you all say, 'Gosh!'?" and the whole crowd yelled, "GOSH!"
Anyway, the best part of the show was their encore. First they explained that when Green Day toured in Japan, they invited Puffy backstage, and said how they were fans, etc... so in return, Puffy decided to sing here, of all songs, Basket Case. It was really really funny, but it actually sounded pretty good. The other half of their encore was アジアの純真, which is the first Puffy single I ever owned, actually (it's actually their first single ever, I think), so that was super-cool, and it sounded really neat live. It was a really good way to end the show, I think.
Halfway home, Jeff made an offhand comment that he wanted a milkshake, so I suggested we go to Red Robin. So we did, the one in Northgate, and we hung out there for a while talking about baseball and Puzzle Pirates and crap. Whee!
After that, I met up with
damienroc at Gordito's for dinner; we were briefly joined by theonlymegumegu and Max, who spent the whole time geeking about D&D. Whee. It made me glad I only play wizard characters in high-level campaigns.Jeff and I went downtown to the Showbox after that for the Puffy Amiyumi concert (I got him a ticket to it for his birthday a month ago). We got there a little after 7pm, and the opening band, Quiet Drive was playing. They were a very stereotypical Seattle emo band. I really, honestly can't describe them except to say that. The last song they played was a sort of punk version of "Time After Time"... it was okay, I guess.
Then after that, Puffy came on stage. It was Ami, Yumi, and four guys as their backup band -- they had a bassist, guitarist, keyboard player, and drums. The gals just sang, and occasionally played harmonica.
To be perfectly honest, since I haven't actually seen their "Hi! Hi! Puffy Amiyumi" show on the Cartoon Network, or actually bought any of the music they've put out since 2000, I wasn't familiar with a lot of the songs they played. Infact, the only ones I recognized for sure were 海へと, これが私の生きる道, ジェット警察, and アジアの純真. They did say a few other songs' names -- like Tokyo Nights, and they mentioned "Friends Forever" because it's in Scooby Doo 2, and the last song they played in their set was "Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi" or whatever, the theme song from their show.
It was funny because they had papers with stuff in English to say, that they kept reading off to talk to the crowd with... like "We were in Portland before this... and I wanted Pho, but the place closed at 5! Then we wanted Korean BBQ but that place closed at 10... are we cursed or what?? Can you all say, 'Gosh!'?" and the whole crowd yelled, "GOSH!"
Anyway, the best part of the show was their encore. First they explained that when Green Day toured in Japan, they invited Puffy backstage, and said how they were fans, etc... so in return, Puffy decided to sing here, of all songs, Basket Case. It was really really funny, but it actually sounded pretty good. The other half of their encore was アジアの純真, which is the first Puffy single I ever owned, actually (it's actually their first single ever, I think), so that was super-cool, and it sounded really neat live. It was a really good way to end the show, I think.
Halfway home, Jeff made an offhand comment that he wanted a milkshake, so I suggested we go to Red Robin. So we did, the one in Northgate, and we hung out there for a while talking about baseball and Puzzle Pirates and crap. Whee!
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Err, okay, well, Mr. Zenspider is rarely wrong, I think...
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That's interesting. Nicotine (also from Japan) did a cover of that song too. However, I thought their punk/ska cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" when they played SXSW 1999 was more amusing.