Category: Great Big Sea
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Speaking of the guitar pick of awesomeness
There’s a ridiculous amount of fangirly glee I can get out of something as simple as a well-used guitar pick! I am not a professional guitarist by any stretch of the imagination; I’m barely at the level of competent amateur, really, and then only because I can play decent rhythm on a small set of…
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Great Big Sea at the Woodland Park Zoo, 7/29/2010
There’s only one thing really that could have kept me from writing this up in a timely fashion–and that’s the simple fact that I’ve been working all weekend with on our entry for the Great Big Karaoke Contest! But I assure you, I’m still in a warm and fuzzy afterglow from Thursday’s awesome show. This…
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Brief pictorial teaser
I didn’t get too many pics during the show since I’m still learning the fine art of how to do a picture on the iPhone that doesn’t suck–and then how to actually save it in the best possible format. However, I’m pretty happy with this one of my B’ys! As you can see I wasn’t…
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Well THAT was Great Big Fun
Just got back from the zoo, you guys! Picoreview: delightful as always, especially up in the dancing area surrounded by fellow OKPers and other people ready, willing, and able to bounce like crazy along with our B’ys. Huge shoutouts to , , , , her spouse Clint whose LJ I still can’t remember, , ,…
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Is this plan awesome or what?
Today’s Excellent Plan of Excellence: Go to store Get moneys Purchase tasty things Bring them home and load them up in the cooler Go to zoo with and Rendezvous at the zoo with and the children Look at critters for a couple of hours Join the ZooTunes line at 4pm Commence fangirling, general bouncing, and…
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And speaking of Great Big Sea
T minus 7 days and counting until the B’ys are HERE for the Zoo show next week! , , and I will be gathering Team Cascadia for a mighty gathering! and and and and and and and Clint (whose LJ I forget DOH) and are all joining us! The Cascadian Vertical Movement team (which y’all…
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Great Big Sea Karaoke contest!
Check this out, you guys: my beloved B’ys have announced a video karaoke contest! They are handing out instrumental tracks for three of the songs off the new album and telling people to get creative with video responses! Anybody local want in on this with me? 😀 (I wonder if it’d still count as karaoke…
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Safe Upon the Shore album review!
RIGHT THEN! texted me when I was on my way home this evening to alert me that the desperately awaited Safe Upon the Shore had finally arrived in the mail. It should surprise none of you that I ripped that envelope open as soon as I kicked off my shoes and changed clothes and got…
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Vertical Movement is ON
This just in, for those of you who aren’t members of greatbigsea.com and/or not on the band’s mailing list: they’re playing the Woodland Park Zoo again this summer! The show date is July 29th, and tickets go on pre-sale for members of greatbigsea.com this Friday the 23rd! I am of course ALL OVER THIS. Any…
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Song prequel giggles
Those of you on Twitter may have seen the #songprequel trending topic, wherein the idea was to post titles of songs that came before actual songs. Much hilarity ensued! With a hat tip to , , , and , here are the Great Big Sea ones we all came up with so far: Young Brown’s…