Slammin' Arm

Roots & Blues 2009:

• watching the naked man dance all over the festival (he actually was wearing nude-coloured pants, but STILL)
• meeting up with Camp Hurlburt friends (Jamie, Rachel, Alex, Julian, Warren, Allison, Mike, Tara, Mitchell, Katie)
• listening to those weird women who had songs about Japanese bath houses ("scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub... i am so cleeeeaaaaaan") and their favourite pony. oh, and cocaine. "that song was from my dark period, in the 90's". HAHAHAHA.
• watching Gay and Gaytown's extremely strange and awkward set on the Community Stage
• Trombone Shorty! they were actually so good. "This song goes out to my saxophone player's ex-wife. It's called 'Liar, Liar'. " zing!
• dancing in the mud with Mike, Jamie, Thomas and Fraser
• meeting cute Salmon Arm boys. THERE ARE SO MANY.
• watching Alex, Mike, and Jamie shotgun Bull Max
• mini-doughnuts =)
• getting my picture taken with girls i loathed in elementary school
• Warren's impersonation of a very drunk Mike the night before. sooo great.
• watching this 85 year old black soul-singer. this man is the epitome of Dirty Old Man. he sang this song in which he graphically describes how to please a woman. "suck her titties", "i don't need no Viagra" and "lick lick lick lick lick" were some of the lyrics. he then humped the stage for a bit. did i mention he is 85?!?!
• BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH. oh my god, that was amazing. Jay Malinowski is so attractive. oh man... so Julian, Jamie, Rachel, Kyle, Dylan (some Salmon Arm boys) and I were in the "Dance Zone", where standing audience had to go. Jay and Eon of Bedouin Soundclash come on, and Jay's all "I don't like this gated community thing going on, we want all you guys over there to come up front". So we hopped the fence and managed to get a really good spot right in front of the stage. Jay was right there. whoo. my toes got stepped on and i got elbowed a few times, but it was so fun. singing "When The Night Feels My Song" at the top of my lungs, surrounded by all these people, was such a cool feeling. i met so many people in that crowd. Gaaaaah, it was amazing.