okay, lets talk about the concerts and wrestling matches leading up to icp…! 

shrug. 

consult youtube, apparently. 

while the early shit was going down, i was primarily engaged in a hella entertaining game of into the echoside with luis and jumpsteady [teamed together, mind you].  they had a thing goin where they were,as jump put it, ‘takin on all comers’.  if you somehow managed to defeat the game creators, the rewards were the big mortons list watch, or charm. 

i had a partner, as well.  im actually having a tiny panic attack right now, cuz i cant remember his fuckin name, and i feel like a dickhead for it.  [if youre readin this, holmes, please tell me your name.  and sorry bout that.]  [and for the record, i forget names sooooo easily.  faces, not so much, but names… yeah.  codenames help.] 

obviously, jump and louis won.  by a good thirty points.  but me?  i put up nineteen.  this is by far the worst score i have ever gotten in the game, even when playin against my own self. 

my partner had never played before.  ever.  this is a considerable handicap, when playing the against worlds two best.  so, i figured we had no chance if i didnt feed him good cards early on [it barely helped].  so, in effect, my partner had half of my points.  now, im not tryin to make excuses here.  we got our clocks cleaned out, handicaps only affected how far the rubble flew. 

after that, they went through several more games with real, planned teams.  they fared better, but not much. 

i really, really, really wanna get a learned crew together, and face them again.  at the con would be ideal, if i can be there. 

also got to have a closeup test of the new expansion shit, which looks promising.  i didnt sign the sheet, though, so i will not be credited as a playtester.  which is fine with me. 

two more things, real quick. 

1 –  yeah, i took various pictures, im sure most of em suck, and havent looked at any of em. 

b –  more important than that: 

if you were in the house for ballas, and happen to either be a member, or are maybe about to become a member, feel free to login and throw your thoughts and stories and pictures and corrections of my inaccuracies all over the thread.  i expect there were many who have more to say than i do. 

i talked to three or four people who said they like flh and had thought about join the forum. 

eh, one more thing, real quicker, cuz fuggit. 

i thought i had finally given out the last of the flh ‘hat’pins last night, but when i got home, i found two more. 

oh, hell.  ill just add another bit.  i doubt ill get penalized for it. 

when i say ‘last night’, mostly i mean, ‘oh-dark-thirty this morning’.  shit ran waaaay late.  clowns came on at like one. 

im guessin i should mention icp, huh? 

pretty good stuff. 

its real, real, real weird seein icp without faygo flying.  i didnt catch js solo set thingy, but i caught shaggys solo tour back whenever, and even that was kinda weird. 

that said, its also kinda cool.  now, im not sayin they should do this all the time, or even once in a while, or for that matter ever again.  but it was actually nifty the way the non-spectacle of the icp set was consequently even more personal. 

by non-spectacle, i mean, non-spectacle.  there was a few humble stage props, mostly there to have sumn to look at all night.  icp set was kicked from the wrestling ring.  no clowns with flags n confetti, nuffin.  what flashiness there was [all night] mostly came from us, the crowd.  ill get back to this later, but not a lot of people were there for a concert; most were there for an xmas party. 

the various songs they busted out were a fun mix, in the main.  i listed out what i can recall in the other thread that wigglefarmer started, but countin em up i get 17, so id expect thats all of em. 

i thought mr happy, we belong, shiny diamonds and yellow bus were all nice touches, as far as left field shit to throw out at us.  in addition to the obvious xmas songs. 

santa killas is a fuckin frrresh song to jump around to.  i wasnt even thinkin they would play it, song is a lil obscure.  fuck, you could tell that many in the crowd didnt know it, which was hilarious.  one of the simplest crowd choruses in icp history, and still people were shrugging.  i mean, cmon… three words?  you should pick that one up easily. 

more dumb bullet points, to try to save a post. 

i didnt even realize that blahzay had performed.  i was told she had a short set, which makes sense, since shes got like four or five songs.  not that i would know;  the shit she dropped on us during icp coulda been brand new shit, or from the ep, either way i wouldnt recognize.  she did good with that, uh, minute or so? of stage time. 

gogetem is actually damned cool live, given that it was only abk and hoodoo.  works nicely like that, in my opinion. 

hoodoo bein there at all was a nice touch, too.  im a fan, i dig hexed live. 

im not botherin to go back and clean up typos n shit, you may have noted.  zcuz at some point im goin to fall asleep, and i wanna try to write out whatever i can before that.  uh, even though its already a large collection. 

LooneyBen said
Sounds like it was a great show! I didn’t make it because of the weather. Wasn’t sure if roads were going to freeze and ice over like they did Friday. I never miss a show at Pops.

wack, but i cant fault you at all.  shits werent the worst ive ever seen, but still fairly fucked up. 

Did you get any pics of the merch booth by chance?  

not i, but i know pictures were taken, so id expect theyre in the interweb somewhere. 

Carnivalkilla44 said
I gotta know, while playing jump in echoside, does he stare you (as his opponent) down with a menacing look that eats at the inner fibers of your soul? 
I can kinda picture it lol    

not really, although if he did, i bet it would be effective.  even against my ‘soul’. 

he mostly seemed to study the situation, and plan out how the next four turns were gonna go down.  i was that far behind. 

pro tip:  when playin teams with a rookie partner, make very sure he buys cards for you, not the other way around. 

King Lucem Ferre said   
I meant did anybody else from the forum show up.    

yeah, actually. 

but i figure if they want to let everybody know it, i will let them sound off first. 

thus, if they dont, im not fuckin em up. 

[edited for clarity]

King Lucem Ferre said  
I’m sure they won’t mind, it’ll bring a more refreshing discussion to the forum.   

im glad you are sure.