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Feb. 27th, 2006 02:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drcuriositySo. The concert today was all sorts of good. Not the kind of music I generally listen to, but definitely a very fun day. 10,000 or so people at the venue, so it was a bit difficult at times to catch up with people I knew, but I had a generally good time and made a few new friends along the way. I think it generally helped having an alcohol-free venue - most of the people who would otherwise have overindulged and been obnoxious assholes were quiet and having fun with everyone else. A good positive vibe to the place - though I must admit, I did have to hide away from the more crowded areas some of the time due to smoke (legal and otherwise). It was almost amusing seeing the sheer number of joints being lit up when Fat Freddy's Drop came on stage. Many trees' worth.
Thanks to Dennis and Mary Anne for the SPF15 sunscreen, my parents for the SPF30 skin and being careful to take occasional shade breaks, I seem to have braved six or seven hours outside in the sun without burning to a crisp. For those of you overseas, be aware that this is taking into account the negligible ozone layer this far south in the world, and a MetService UV index of "8 - VERY HIGH". We've got one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, and it's not all due to the outdoor lifestyle. [More info here.]
Aside from any dancing and so forth, I also spent a bit of time helping the venue staff pick up rubbish and so forth afterwards, then helped the RDU staff with things like moving couches, mic stands and giant polystyrene letters, so I managed to get a good bit of exercise while I was at it.
I also spent a while talking with Mark, one of the RDU production staff. We got talking about various kinds of music, and I discovered that he's a former member of the band Valerie Violet - in other words, the other guy who wasn't either Matt or Adrian (who I already knew through my sister). If I get some spare time at some point, I may end up helping them with voice work for adverts and so forth.
In somewhat related news, I'll also be filming a scene for a short film in April - a sequel to the one I was in back in late 2004, even though I died at the end of the last one. Hooray for flashbacks. Helpfully I'm also more fit at the moment than I was then, so I'll look the part for a younger version of my character as long as you don't pay too much attention to the grey hairs I'm starting to get. Well. As "the part" as a gaijin can be when he's being Matsuyama sensei, a cruel Japanese swordmaster. I get to wear nifty custom-made traditional Japanese kimono though, so that will be much fun. I just wish I could afford more stuff that's actually built to fit me.
(Oh, and I'm almost finished writing my thesis progress report which, due to my enforced medical absence, is the first one I've written since November 2004. Yay.)
Thanks to Dennis and Mary Anne for the SPF15 sunscreen, my parents for the SPF30 skin and being careful to take occasional shade breaks, I seem to have braved six or seven hours outside in the sun without burning to a crisp. For those of you overseas, be aware that this is taking into account the negligible ozone layer this far south in the world, and a MetService UV index of "8 - VERY HIGH". We've got one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, and it's not all due to the outdoor lifestyle. [More info here.]
Aside from any dancing and so forth, I also spent a bit of time helping the venue staff pick up rubbish and so forth afterwards, then helped the RDU staff with things like moving couches, mic stands and giant polystyrene letters, so I managed to get a good bit of exercise while I was at it.
I also spent a while talking with Mark, one of the RDU production staff. We got talking about various kinds of music, and I discovered that he's a former member of the band Valerie Violet - in other words, the other guy who wasn't either Matt or Adrian (who I already knew through my sister). If I get some spare time at some point, I may end up helping them with voice work for adverts and so forth.
In somewhat related news, I'll also be filming a scene for a short film in April - a sequel to the one I was in back in late 2004, even though I died at the end of the last one. Hooray for flashbacks. Helpfully I'm also more fit at the moment than I was then, so I'll look the part for a younger version of my character as long as you don't pay too much attention to the grey hairs I'm starting to get. Well. As "the part" as a gaijin can be when he's being Matsuyama sensei, a cruel Japanese swordmaster. I get to wear nifty custom-made traditional Japanese kimono though, so that will be much fun. I just wish I could afford more stuff that's actually built to fit me.
(Oh, and I'm almost finished writing my thesis progress report which, due to my enforced medical absence, is the first one I've written since November 2004. Yay.)
