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Well, if I respond to anonymous comments you won't be notified anyway, so in order: 1) Sorry, don't know who you are because I know many HnG fans and suck at guessing, but I will be posting more HnG fic soon. Soon! XD 2) What fangirls? 3) Probably, but if I read something tedious a trapdoor opens at the bottom of my head and it falls right out, so I can't even remember it afterward let alone blog about it. As for Mirage of Blaze, I have cursed the author, cursed the characters, posted rants, thrown the books across the room and taken month-long sanity hiatuses from reading them, so how sick is "sick of it"? XD I don't think the series is in danger of boring me any time soon, if that's what you mean. 4) Rhinos are also related to whales, unless I'm mistaken. 5) I guess I am one of those people who wouldn't post hate memes, so - I'm not going to post a hate meme. XD Besides, I can answer the question easily: of course people would jump in and vent. Apart from everything else, my flist would hate all over my lj just to let me know that they appreciate that I appreciate the irony. 6) I have seen the Tuvan throat singers but have yet to download. Doing so now! 7) I've never been much interested in campfuckudie, because... I've seen crack RPG comms come and go. But my default filter is over 100 people, so it's only one of the many things my flist talks about constantly that I'm not interested in or have never seen. XD

( File under still-not-sick-of-it: more Mirage of Blaze sidestory babble. )

But instead of doing what I would've done, had I personally come into possession of a weeping Virgin, Naoe and his bro went out to get smashed and listen to jazz. And so did I! Isn't that creepy? ...Okay, fine. I went to the Khaled show at Metropolis, sponsored by the Jazz Festival. It was... well, Khaled himself (and band) were awesome, and the audience was spwecial in a way the security did not enjoy. XD My better pictures were taken after the speakers in my corner of the stage were knocked over, making for a lovely view.

A few photos from the Khaled concert last night

Got home on the last metro train. ^^; Wide range of ages in the crowd, lots of flag-carrying North Africans, plus oddities like this little old Indian lady with a glass of wine in the mosh pit and - well - me. XD Chinese-Canadians represent eheh. I got the impression that a lot of the audience either didn't attend rock concerts often or didn't care how they worked; more likely the former than the latter, or else more people would've clapped for the encore instead of milling about confusedly and going "Is that it? He's not going to sing Aisha?" XD;;; The mood was adoring but sort of volatile. I was right up against stage right with this large group of university-age Algerians, and in approximate chronological order there were: flag-waving, yelling at the opening-set DJ for playing something abstractly d'n'b until he put on "Ya Rayah" instead, official camera crews wading around and blocking everyone's view, a fight centre front in which security intervened, this one guy kept macking on a girl next to me until he grabbed her hand and left two-thirds of the way through, more flag-waving, tossing flags onstage, Khaled tossing his towel offstage to the guy next to me (he strutted as you can well imagine), lighter-waving, getting up on people's shoulders and flag-waving, umbrella-waving and getting told off by security for it, taking photos of each other using the stage as a backdrop (including a blurry one of me XD), getting up onto the stage to take photos and getting kicked off by security, storming the stage to give Khaled hugs during the encore (eight or nine people in a row - security so v. not amused XD;), girl next to me accidentally knocking down speakers, girl crying, other people around me including towel boy and umbrella girl screaming at Khaled to get his attention so he would come shake crying girl's hand which he graciously did, yelling and throwing water bottles at security after the concert's end for refusing to give back the flags that had been thrown onstage. A real change from the stoners at the Herbaliser gig. XD

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Wonder of wonders, I also used the movie-recording function on my camera: 30-second clip (7.8MB). No way of getting the flag-waving down in stills. XD