The most important thing about the Great Big Sea show tonight

[annathepiper]

Internets, my usual full concert report will be coming about tonight’s Great Big Sea show in Edmonds real soon–but before I post that, I have to post this, because THIS was the high point of the evening and I’m still trying to ramp down from the outburst of ZOMG in my system.

As you all know, I’m a novelist. I’ve completed five novels, in fact. Verbosity is my primary superpower. I have a LOT of words in me. So you’ll know that if other people’s pictures are worth a thousand words, this one, coming from me, is worth an entire trilogy. This happened after the GBS show in Edmonds tonight, when I and several other fangirls were hanging out by the band’s tour bus!

Anna and Alan Doyle

Thirteen years. THIRTEEN YEARS I’ve been in this fandom and I’ve finally scored not only the opportunity, but also the gumption to ask Alan Doyle to his face if I could have a picture with him. He promptly said “sure!”, invited me to get in close, and put his arm around my shoulders. I handed my phone off to my friend Helen, who then needed me to unlock it for her ’cause duh right access code. THEN she had trouble finding my camera app, so she made cracks at me about how “should I draw this out a little longer?”–’cause Alan was standing there with his arm around me the whole time. I chirped, “I’M GOOD!”

There was laughter, and the picture was finally taken. One other girl in the group also snapped a pic which she promised to send me, so this wasn’t even the only one!

(ALSO! There was bonus Murray! Most of the group wanted pics with Alan, so after I got my turn I turned to Murray and asked him about his fundraising efforts for his Cocksure Lads movie–his mockumentary about a fictional 60′s British rock band. Great fun. I was in on round one of that fundraising and I’ll be chiming in on the second one too. Because Murray is awesome.

Also, mad props to Foster when I told him I was annathepiper on Twitter and that we’d chatted some about Tolkien. He remembered that. YAY!)

So yeah. This was a TRIUMPH. Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

Also note: I neither confirm nor deny any rumors of high-pitched squealing and a victory dance as soon as we were out of range of the bus.

Mirrored from angelahighland.com.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad you had fun.

(Btw: I had some big complex dream last night, part of which was set in the original Murkworks.)

[annathepiper]

Massive fun was indeed had!

And hee, yeah?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. So what did you and he say about Tolkien?

[annathepiper]

He was tweeting about watching Lord of the Rings and deciding that while everybody respected the elves, nobody really LIKED them, and they were coming off (at least in the movies) as aloof and judgy.

I was agreeing with him, and even acknowledging I was saying that as an elf fangirl. ;) Re-reading The Hobbit, in particular, I was finding the elves in that rather more relatable.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. I think Tolkien's elves are one of the aspects that the films get very, very wrong. If nothing else warned him, Jackson might have realised that Bilbo has better taste than that...

Legolas is still the prettiest, though.

(Sir Ian was being interviewed by a particularly moronic Hollywood journo - this was about the time of the second film - and she said "So, still no love interest for Gandalf?" And he said, "Of course there is. He's called Orlando Bloom.")

[annathepiper]

*chortle* Thank you, Sir Ian, for your continuing awesomeness. (heart)

Although I DID approve of movie!Galadriel delivering her "if you're done being a jackass, send some troops to Helm's Deep for fuck's sake" lecture to Elrond. ;) Movie!Galadriel, at least, was FINE. Of course, she's Cate Blanchett, so that kind of goes without saying.