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February 13, 2008
Ready to Rock
There has been far too much talk of babies on this blog of late. I'm sorry about that. The thing has yet to arrive and already it's dictating the conversation. Fortunately for all of us, a monumental event looms on the near horizon, an event of such intrigue and significance that even if the baby were here, we would leave it unattended in its baby contraption while we headed off to Idiots'Fest in all its glory.
What's that, you say? Idiots'Fest?
Yes, my friends, the festival is upon us. If you still need convincing, you just haven't taken a close enough look at who is performing and what they are going to be doing:
In case you are the sort that is swayed by pictures of grown men playing rock band in someone's basement, here's a little behind the scenes look into a festival rehearsal that went down in Williamstown in January.
Here is Rich Flynn, in his glory.
And Brian Wecht, master of the improbable.
Yes, he can play both instruments at once. He can and he will.
Here is Brian Slattery, uncertain what to do with my harmonica mic.
Rest assured, his uncertainty was short-lived.
Here is Aidan who, at 16, has at least 40 years of hard-driving drummer's angst stored up in his hard-driving drummer's heart.
Aidan is the core of the rock. Just you wait and see.
Of course, the other festival performers, Jim, Victor, Drew, Robbi, and me, aren't even pictured here. Your heart is racing with just this tiny taste of what marvels await. I'm pointing this out to save you the soul-numbing disappointment that you will surely feel if, come Sunday morning, you wake to find the Rock has passed you by.
I'm talking to you, Ming Weigel. If you are a no-show at Idiots'Fest, I will have to go on believing that you do not actually exist.
I'm talking to all of you who are not Ming Weigel, too.
Posted by bogenamp at February 13, 2008 10:57 AM
Comments
rock on.
Posted by: the hose at February 13, 2008 10:50 PM
The female students are already swooning, having seen a picture of Aidan Shepard.
Posted by: Kate at February 14, 2008 12:14 PM