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[sorcyress]

Just finished up the Vienna concert. Somewhat swooning, because man, that was all kinds of awesome. Both as a concert (Vienna, omgee!!) and as a technological thing, where I am sitting in the middle of my kitchen, in a chatroom with strangers, listening to Vienna. And when I don't know the lyrics I can look them up, and that's kinda completely awesome actually.

She played The Tower. First thing and right off the bat, and my heart fluttered and sung and everything was perfect forever. Then she played some other songs off her first album --in order, Daughter, Say Uncle, Drought, Gravity, Eric's Song, and Unwritten Letter Number One (For which she forgot the lyrics partway through, which was very cute, and the chatroom (which she had scrolling and could look over and read --this will be important in a minute-- exclaimed over the correct line for her.)

And then she played Between. And I flung myself from my seat, grabbing my speakers and getting them set up properly in a matter of seconds, because the music was just enough too soft and I couldn't have that, if I was going to dance, I was going to dance loudly. So now I have danced --fractured and stiff and strange-- to Between.

Someone in the chatroom asks her to tell the story behind Between, and she does, and she mentions that it didn't quite come together until she took a dance class. In the chat, I exclaim "Cross-step waltz!" into the rapidfire chatter of fans, which doesn't really matter until Vienna looks over and goes, "Yes cross-step!"

...and she's still talking but my mind is reeling at this tiny sliver of being touched by fame. For she is Vienna and all-powerful and she has just responded to what I said and oh. my. god.

That was cool.

Anyways, she wrapped up with Soon Love Soon (and I'm convinced that *everyone* was singing along, despite the miles and time zones between us). And then she was gone, with a beautiful smile and a wave, and we're left to our own chatter for a few minutes. And that was that.

I approve heartily of this sort of thing, and simply can't wait until the next one.

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[harena]

Wow, that sounded like that was fabulous! i'm so happy you got to do that and it was sooo awesome! Your sliver of fame made me think of my fantasy one.. whereby John totally heard me hollering FINGERTIPS as a request when i saw him & John in concert and thereby played it as an encore ^_^

[werewulf.livejournal.com]

And for me, that moment was when (after I SHOUTED my request at the beginning of the concert) the Bobs came out for their second encore and said..."Did somebody request Shoes?"

Ah! Bliss indeed!

[tricia868]

I wish I could have gotten tickets. I'm so sad I missed it. Of all her albums, this was the one I wanted to hear live the most.

I'm really glad you enjoyed it so much. *hugs* Also, the cross-step waltz connection is awesome.

[sparr0.livejournal.com]

I envision the next iteration of this involving something like a Google+ Hangout, so everyone can sing along together, out of sync :)

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

reeling at this tiny sliver of being touched by fame

You tweet at famous people don't you? I've had several conversations with famous people on Twitter. It is kinda neat.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, there's the webcartoonist with whom the path somewhat went twitter conversations -> forum conversations -> e-mail -> more e-mail -> no seriously -> him drawing semi-NSFW pictures of me and one of his characters and sending them to me in the mail.

...okay, the plural is an exaggeration but yeah. That happened. My life is fabulous.

~Sor