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Words: Tonight Harvey and I went to see the Dropkick Murpheys, the Mahones, and Teenage Bottlerocket. It's hard to explain why getting good-naturedly shoved for three hours, pressed into some stranger's sweaty body, with music pounding so loud that you can feel the bass vibrating through your bones, is amazing. It's liberating. It's exhilarating. And, strange as it sounds, it's relaxing. (It's pretty hard for me to let loose in general.)
Dropkick played an amazing 90 minute set. They really know how to get you moving, working the crowd and constantly changing places to make sure that you could see everyone in the band no matter where you were in the crowd (for the record, we were front and slightly stage left, two to three people back). They know just where to place the softer songs to give the crowd a bit of a break (I refuse to admit that I'm getting old; but I needed it). I love that their choruses have the whole crowd yelling right along with them (though my voice was already pretty much gone, so there wasn't a lot of yelling for me). They played the Worker's Song before the encore, so I forgot trying to save my voice and yelled right along.
Afterwards Harv and I walked over to Chubby's and had dinner and caught up with each other's lives. Pretty much the perfect bro's night.
Here's what you can take from this:
- Always make sure photography is allowed before taking photos at an event, and never use flash.
- When I go places I'm sure to be unable to take good photos (movies, concerts, plays), I love getting pictures of signs or posters. (It's even better to get a photo of a person you went with or yourself in front of that sign or poster.)
- Documentation isn't just photos and words. Include memorabilia too, either physically, by taking a photo, or by scanning it. When I document this, I'll include my ticket and a flier.
- I'll admit to being kind of stuck with the writing for this one. One of the things I love most about concerts is that they get my constantly over-thinking / narrating my own life head to shush for a bit so I can just enjoy it. So I started writing with "It's hard to explain" and it flowed from there.
This is my documentation from the Daily Doc | Nov 2012 handout. It has 30 prompts to use if you get stuck documenting. I'm tackling all of these this month AND doing unplanned daily documentation. I printed out the prompts (pages 2-4 of the handout) and I'm highlighting them to cross them off as I go. I'm not doing them in order; I'm using them as they make sense for me.
If you did documentation from the handout today, post a link to it in the comments section!
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