my cousin is married.
it has been quite an exciting weekend for me. it started out with playing guitar for grease thursday, then driving in a minivan from fresno to sonoma county friday morning/afternoon for my cousin mel's wedding. the wedding was quaint and tiny with only about 70-80 people.
before and after the ceremony i mingled with many people, some who i hadn't seen in quite some time. one person being my newly married cousin's friend from high school who claimed to remember me when i was "yay (holding hand four feet from the ground) tall". i had only joined into this ongoing conversation because she said she was a women's studies major in college and i wanted to pipe in and say i am currently taking a women's studies class. shortly after, the group of people that were all sharing in this conversation boil down to myself and my cousin's friend and her escort, but then my brother walks up to join in on conversation and my cousin's friend introduces herself, "hello, i went to school with your cousin and this is my partner (insert female name here)" my brother didn't quite register what that meant right off the bat, but quick came to realize that we were having a conversation with two lesbians and exited the conversation quietly.
after dinner i did my best to entertain the people with music (aka dj) but my cousin's friends are very picky with their preference of music. i played 80's hits with some good turn out, 90's ballads with minimal interest, and contemporary top 40 stuff with very little interest at all. the strangest thing is, that the song that got the most people out on the dance floor that night was the violent femmes' "blister in the sun". now, the song is great, but i really didn't expect the turnout that it received and how little the rest of the songs got.
and with the 2:1 ratio of people to jello shots, i thought more people would be letting loose and hitting up the dance floor... i can't win them all i guess.
then saturday my family and i all drive back to fresno, so i can play guitar for grease. the closing night show was great, i got paid, had a small dinner at the 500 club and then crashed the cast party. jared (my amazing piano player buddy) and i know lots of songs. so at the cast party, we whip out our guitars and electric pianos with a handful of cast members and start a little jam session. we did some songs that we could get quite a few people to dance and sing along to and overall stole the party.
then after some downtime, jared and i start playing tunes from other musicals and and handful of hip kids joined us to sing along, while the rest of the party cranked up the booty shaking music in the other room and got their freak on.
so here i am. my crazy weekend slowing down. i have homework to do, but it will need to wait. i'm going to start rehearsing for joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat soon, and i'm really excited, the music rocks. i'm going to bring the thunder to that musical.
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