Only Mercer Is Exit

[mousapelli]

Tori Amos in concert was amazing. She played a bunch of older stuff (Crucify, Precious Things, China, Cornflake Girl) which was awesome because I haven't listened to any of her new stuff since college. Lol, but now we're listening to "Winter" on my laptop, which I sang for a Tri-M concert in high school while my incredibly gay friend who also adored Tori played the piano. sociofemme can probably guess which friend that was :D

Tori Amos is weird as hell, but goddamn is she talented. She had five keyboards going at one point (the Bosendorfer with a keyboard on top of it, and then on the other side, a two-keyboard organ with another keyboard on top of it) and just O.o gah, her voice is so powerful live. She's phenomenal.

also amazing is Plum bubble tea, which apparently i am too white to order, because the lady was like "um, are you sure? Reeeally sure?" It's not onigiri, but it'll have to be close enough. おいしい！

And I bought my mother a tote bag. copperbadge, i thought of you.

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[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

Right before your Tori-post on my flist was a post by Neil. How appropriate. ;)

[jain]

Is the plum bubble tea salty (which is how all the plum-flavored things that I tried in Taiwan were)? Or is it just a regular sweet plum flavor?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

It was salty, like for real plum stuff, which is what the lady was trying to warn me about. I mean, it isn't really salty at all after you've taken a couple sips, i think the flavor is just weird and so your brain codes it as salty at first because it doesn't know what to do.

anyway, there's no way this lady could have known that sour plum onigiri is like my favorite thing ever ^_^

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I can read your katakana! I am so proud of myself! :D

I love Tori, though I probably won't get to another concert of hers. I think I saw...three? She's lovely in concert.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

やった！ It's a good feeling, isn't it? いいかんじ〜

I hadn't ever actually seen her before, so it was really something.

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

You know, at first I was like huh? What katakana (well, hiragana)? She used Japanese? And had to go read again.

Such is life. Sometimes people talk, or even I myself talk, and then a second later I can't figure out what language it was. Sometimes Japanese registers to me as "English" when it's something I understand entirely without thinking. *facepalm*

...that was really awkward to explain. Pardon me, it's 6am. *goes right back to sleep*

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

lol, I don't think that sounds weird as all. I use a handful of Japanese words casually, like tensai or kouhai, in conversation, and nobody stops me doing it.

[rooneytunes.livejournal.com]

I totally remember you singing that. Now was the the concert with him doing a Britney Spears song??? I cannot remember if they happened on the same night, or if I just remember it that way.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I can't remember at all, but I do remember after he did the interpretive dance that one time nobody was allowed to do that ever again.

[rooneytunes.livejournal.com]

Interpretive Dance!!!! Yeah I totally own up to helping him with that one. Not one of my finer moments.

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

...but how did she have enough hands to play five keyboards? I'm confused

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

she doesn't really, lol, she just switches between them a lot. She just puts one piano bench in the middle, so she can turn around fast, or sometimes she straddles the bench and has one hand on both pianos on either side.

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

maaaaan, it sounds like these shows are just. incredible. i'm salivating with jealousy. but i'm glad you got to see tori!!! howawesome!!

^__^