Drained…

…but still have a looooong week ahead.

Pride was mostly pretty good, although I was WAY more social than I usually am or thought I could manage at this juncture.  Our set was plagued by tuning problems, but the PA and the sound guy were excellent, and nobody else said they noticed the tuning or other glitches (for example, at one point C looked up, saw a girl she’d been crushing on and forgot where she was at in the song… normally it’s me who does that stuff).  Opening the festival was passably OK in terms of audience — we’d have gotten a much larger crowd in our original time slot today, but we wouldn’t have in the closing slot we were given before we got the one we finally got, since everybody partied so hard last night they all pooped out hours before Pride festivities closed (including me, although I didn’t drink much at all last night).  So yeah, smaller crowd, but I honestly don’t know where I would have gotten the energy today unless I’d passed up hanging with friends yesterday, which I’m very glad I didn’t.

The aggregation of friends hanging out most of the weekend included X-Girl (now Boi).   At one point between activities we took a nap in my bed, along with another friend visiting from out of town.  Listening to him snore was sadly nostalgic.

The rest of Pride, well, there were a lot of very very very cute people around, and mostly I just felt sorry for myself about that. 

Some great music in the lineup, though.  Overall I was most impressed with the littler acts, although Chris Pureka did a nice set.  Emily Herring too… <3 her.  Uh Huh Her… well, not my thing:  the Blake Babies did that style of music much better in the 90s already, and I can’t be into UHH just because of Leisha Hailey like everybody else is.  Gone Against Blue has turned into a really fun energetic band, and have tightened up a LOT since they first started out, which was when I saw them last.   And PDXMajesty did a nice job on the main stage yesterday — I regret to say I went home and fell over with my stomachache before her set today on the cafe stage.

And now  I have to clean and pack for the trip home….