so..this open mic thingy...

and first off, let me say, you people who get up there to do such things have got to be insane...i mean, i do public speaking, but public playing/singing is something else entirely...
it was pretty good last night, i went caus ei wanted to check it out, and to hand out with a few people, that's all, but pretty soon, i was riveted..i mean, not everyone was good, and a great many of the artists (dare i call them that?) weren't attention grabbing in any logical way, but i swear, to see someone play an instrument, is to catch their walls unaware, to speak to their soul and not to their barriers...prehaps that is why music is so loved? it was facinating...anyway, i have to say a few things... 1) NATHAN SHEETS rocks...i mean, i knew he played guitar, but i didn't actaully conciously realize that he PLAYED GUITAR, and he does, and he sings too, and writes what he sings (except for flower puck, which was by someone else, either warren zevon or frank zappa, currently fighting with han over that, and of course, neither one of us is going to look it up...) and it was AWESOME! i swear, you never look at a person the same way after something like that... i read teh soul of nathan, and now i understand a little more... 2) ELAINE ATWELL (sp) rocks...great, angsty chick-meets-guitar-rock... she wrote her own stuff and she was by far one of the best vocalists of the night...i loved her second one, the one about things being broken...she;s still a prickly little bint, but now at least i can love her words if not her self... (i could kill summer, she treated me like a little kid... "stop burning things" and "you're going to catch my ass on fire" when i brought out the lighter i stole from john to pop open for precisely that reason... what a pain in the neck, and not the good kind either, the kind that sets your teeth on edge...i have said it before, i simply cannot tolerate rudeness, it is one of the few things i cannot overlook in people i know... and summer is one of the rudest people i know, i still don't know if i like her yet, there is obviously more study called for, though i doubt i have the energy just yet)...3) i love han, she got up there, even when they didn't give her a mic, even when elaine made the snide comment about being the only girl up there, and played the tenor she borrowed from lindsey, an instrument that is not her main one, and didn't freak out, even when the duet she was supposed to have with jason turned out to be han mouthing the words because she had no mic..*sigh* i am still proud of her, i didn't get up there, after all, and she at least had the inclination to do what i cannot...4) i gots to love me some of my other children, john and jason (same one, yes, he's multi-talented...hehehe) with their band, the royals (i think) john as guitar, jason as bass, soem kid on the drums and the singer named dillion... didn't know that's who that was, but i have to tell you, they were quite good, i love their avalon song, and now that they have a bass, they sound even better then they did on thier demo tape (or rather, cd), there's a classic rock sorta feel to them, probably because their singer has the intonation of an old school rocker, andthere is absolutly nothing wrong with that...i like classy cowboy, alright, i mean, there's no denying that they were good, but i hate to say it, cause it makes me sound stuffed-shirt, but i like to be able to understand the words in my music...not have to listen to someone scream all the time, though their drummer did amuse me, he looked as if he was about to have a seizure on stage...so anyway, went, had a phenominal time, what with hanging out with reb beforehand and hanging out with the group after (for long enough to share a smoothie with han) and still getting home in time to get a decent amount of sleep...yeah, i could do with more friday nights like that...i'm legal and i'm single, and i'm in it for the thrill (yeah..as if......)