Did anyone else google "connivence" to discover that it's also the name of an obscure 70s Quebecois prog-yacht-rock band that's actually pretty good if you're into that kind of thing and can be downloaded here?
No? Just me?
I have actually been to an ICP concert, and I have some advice for you. Bring a like-minded friend so you don't feel like you're all alone on an alien planet. You will still feel like that, but at least you won't be the only one of "your kind" there. It's sort of like going to a foreign country, being surrounded by people with strange customs you don't understand, and even though they may seem intimidating at times, they're just doing their own thing and don't mean to cause trouble. You will probably see a few other non-juggalos there, and it's easy to connect with these people just as it's easy to connect with other travelers when you're abroad.
Another tip, and I cannot stress this enough: stay far away from the front of the stage. If your venue has a balcony, this is the ideal location. This is assuming you don't want to go home soaked in Faygo. When I saw them, they had two large barrels full of 2-liter bottles, and a few stagehands whose sole job was to restock said barrels.
But you will have more fun than you expect to have. Even though their music is not "good," ICP put on a very entertaining show, and you will not find a more enthusiastic crowd. And if you ever take an anthropology class, you can write a paper about it.
Have a great weekend everyone! Even though we may be wallowing in our own crude oil poison mixture down here on Earth, it's a party right now in heaven.
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I know I'm late to the party, as in I've never been so late to any party in my life, but I watched the Lost finale on Hulu last night. This was the first and only time I've ever seen an episode of Lost. Oh man, what a strange experience for me, you guys! At first, it was hard just trying to figure out who all the characters were, because everyone was talking about people I didn't know, and just as I think I've learned people's names and faces, the show would introduce more characters, and this happened over and over. This show has so many characters! And then all these characters would be acting all intense and melodramatic, because when they touched each other they would have 90s-music-video-colored flashbacks of the memories they had with each other, except they weren't really memories because they happened in an alternate reality or something? Or they were all dead and this was the afterlife? And they all cried and said things super dramatically, except the things they said didn't make any sense. You know how trailers for Oscar bait movies tend to focus on the scenes of the most dramatic acting to emphasize how the actors are very good, very acting, except you don't really understand why they're being so dramatic because all the clips are out of context? This show was like a two-hour-long version of that. Oh boy there were so many lines that didn't make sense to me. Like near the beginning where that Ben guy said "When you said you were going to destroy the island, I thought you were speaking figuratively!" because why in the world would he think that? Did he think it was a euphemism for pooping? My favorite part was when after Desmond went down in that cave to pull some rock out of some other rock and nobody mentioned him again or seemed to care that he was presumably dead down there, but then Jack goes down into the same cave to put the rock back, and the other guys pull up the rope to find Desmond attached to the end, not Jack, and they're all, "Oh no! Where's Jack? This is so sad!" right in front of Desmond, who they absolutely don't care is still alive. I thought that was pretty bad manners. So in conclusion, I know all these things probably made sense to people who have actually watched the rest of the show, but I don't care because they provided me with an interesting, baffling experience, and I'd rather be baffled for two hours than understand things for 120 hours or however long this show is.
I heard that alligator skin handbags have gotten a lot cheaper recently. The bad news is that most of them have crude oil stains on them. I'm pretty sure that's the only bad news though.
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