Am I the poster girl for some suburban sickness?

September 18, 2006

-”Dirty Business” Dresden Dolls

It’s a little hard to sum up the last few days- it would probably be easier if I broke it down into daily entries, but then you’d miss the overwhelming weirdness and urgency of it all.

If I take you backwards through this weekend, at least that way you’ll end up with the happy and exciting part, and not the dowdy reason I’m sitting depressed on the couch right now.

You see, today I spent three hours in emergency getting my blood pressure down, followed by a nice visit to my cardiologist and then home to rest. I’m taking this week off work- which is going to make some problems of it’s own, but I think it’s in the best interest of my health. It’s a pity everything has gone so pear shaped, because I had the most astounding and fantastic weekend.

Sunday was interesting. I dragged BMB along to the Brisbane Devmeet. We rode the trains into Southbank, and I forgot how much I like Brisbane train, in a weird way. I was feeling a little out of sorts, shy and like a bit of an old poser, so we didn’t stay too long. Besides, we had places to go and people to meet. The rest of the afternoon was great, BMB, a couple friends and I went into the Valley for a yummy lunch , some beers and to listen to some music at the Valley Fiesta. Then we headed off to the Amazing Human Body exhibit at the RNA. Then home on the train…. Saturday, BMB had council, so we took I took it fairly easy on Saturday, did some cleaning and caught up on some reading. Saturday night we caught up on our TV viewing and had some takeaway.

Warning: heavy photographic content follows, just because….

I had been waiting for Friday night for quite a while, because we had tickets to the Dresden Dolls. Needless to say, BMB and I were a little excited and got dressed up:

While I thought my outfit (which you can’t see here, but it was a lovely black and pink corset) was pretty special, it was nothing compared to what some of the other fans were wearing. Frank went all out and had a gorgeous corset, dress and falls. She was running a little late, and missed my new ‘discovery- Jason Webley. He was fantastic, sort of like a pirate Tom Waits, but very funny and great with audience participation, at one stage- I was in a island of sane static people, while the rest of the crowd looked at their fingers in the air and turned around in circles- crazy!

The other support acts were local, The Red Paintings and Zen Zen Zo- both of which were amazingly theatrical and gorgeous to watch. Zen Zen Zo have a reputation for physical theatre that’s a little controversial, so they didn’t disappoint and the Red Paintings are an amazing mix of music, costumes, multimedia and live rock. It was astounding.

Seeing the Dresden Dolls was one of those fan girl moments- after listening and watching and imagining for so long, it was great to see them perform live, after all, as a cabaret act, performance is a vast proportion of their act. They were very energetic and giving. I wish I had remembered a set list, but I was so caught up in the moment and since my illness has come back, I think Friday night has taken on another significance for me.

We were quite a way back, so while I tried to get pictures, they weren’t that good.