hiddenmuse | Finally Friday

Today's Moment of Zen: "I want to broaden my vocabulary. I found this book of words, where they use them in, like, sentences." -- JESSICA SIMPSON

Yes, thank G*d and Everyone Else - it's Friday.

To Kellie and everyone else that speak of the BNL concerts as Going Home, I can understand that feeling. And if you'll oblige me for a moment, the talk of the difference between "home" and "Home" reminded me of a line from an older Toad The Wet Sprocket Song (older meaning from the CD Fear):

"You can take me down
To show me your home
Not the place where you live
But the place you belong"

- "Something To Say"

I went to the Non Prophets (NPs) show last night - and missed out on getting some BNL phone love. :-(
The good thing is, something I'd posted to the NPs message board in kind of a half-assed attempt at being funny ended up being picked up and used in the show last night. :)

Here's what happened - there's a local grocery store chain that touts the fact that they make life easier for their customers, and in recent ads, they show the services they *don't* offer: eye exams, driving ranges, beauty salons, etc.

The NPs being a bunch of sick little puppies have twisted the ads around, showing that the stores don't offer black market babies and breast augmentation. Last week, it was the breast augmentation sketch - and they'd only blown up one balloon, instead of two, leaving the actress with a uni-boob.

Since the grocery store employees are on strike, I'd posted something to the message board the next day about how "that's what happens when the employees strike - those damn temps come in and wreck everything!" So, they ended up taking the idea of the strike and working it into the show - and I was given credit in the program for the idea. :)

All I can say is that it was such a "Steven Page at the Brian Wilson concert" moment - I didn't know whether I wanted to jump up and shout "That's my idea!" or just crawl under my chair for the entire sketch. So, I just sat there, kind of shocked that they'd used my idea, thinking "yeah! That's my idea!"

Post-show, I got the cast members telling me that they liked the idea and thought that the sketch was cool, so I just took it all in stride, and managed to not blush 300 shades of red at the little bit of attention.

Also, thanks to Tyson, I have a stupid grin on my face that will be rather hard to remove. No, nothing remotely salacious happened. Actually, I'd mentioned that I was a John Mayer fan (turns out that he is, too), so we talked about his music - as well as those infamous Mayer-faces, as Kellie calls them. The instant I said that, Ty started imitating John's facial expressions - which was funny as hell. After that, I said kind of off-hand, "well, if those are his expressions onstage, it almost makes you wonder what his fuck-faces would look like." Ty's response: "The exact same thing. Not that I'd know personally - although I'd like to!" (So, yeah, we can add Tyson to the list of Slaves to John Mayer - hope the gals don't mind!)