Current Music: De Dijk - Ik kan het niet alleen
It is late late LATE - technically the 4th, as you'll see from the date - and I don't know why I'm still awake... oh yes I do... I'm WIRED!!! And can't stop singing. LOL!
Aaaahhh... Elton was amazing! J and I took the train and then the metro (which is COOL!) to Ahoy, and our seats were good - 21st row was a bit far back for my taste, but we were dead center. Anyway, he started out with a bunch of songs that neither J nor I really knew - newer ones, I think - but then the second half was great! He sang "Candle in the Wind" and "I'm Still Standing" - my two favorites - one after the other, and of course everyone stood up for "I'm Still Standing" and then didn't really ever sit down again... LOL! And I didn't know he sang "Sacrifice"! When he did it, I recognized it, but somehow I'd never known it was from him... one of those songs you hear in the dentist's office and never really 'place'. Anyway, he did all the 'good' ones :) and then left for a while so we could do the obligatory clapping and 'we want more' screaming, but then he came out - out of his stage clothes and in a track suit - and signed some autographs along the front, then thanked everyone for their support and sang "Your Song", changing it a bit so that it fit as of he were singing to the people of Holland. He did the same thing earlier with "Crocodile Rock" - someone who worked on the setup was celebrating his 5-year anniversary with his boyfriend, and so Elton changed the words to fit 'Alan' and 'Dale' - the guys' names - into it. You know, I never really thought about it, but maybe Elton feels more comfortable in Holland because being gay is so normal here? Hmm. Anyway, he also said something which he would never have dared to say if he hadn't been in Europe - he was talking about Reagan and said something like "I don't know what it is about those Republicans in America but it just seems like they have a few less brain cells than everybody else." Everyone cracked up, myself included... but it made me glad I saw him at an international venue. He's English, I keep forgetting that, and not American, so he of course has opinions like that. You just don't generally hear them. :) Anyway, it was nice because he felt very 'real'. Complaints: he overdid the pointing-to-people-and-smiling thing between songs, and he (in general) didn't talk enough in between numbers - he just swung from one right to the next. The few times he did talk, people really listened and as I said, it made him seem more 'real'. He should have done more of that. But overall he was awesome. The best parts were when he was just by himself on the piano, though - with the whole band behind him it made the words hard to understand (not to mention tried to change the beat of your heart, it was that strong of a bass... LOL!)
Anyway, I have to go to bed now - I've got to get up at 7.30 as usual, and then I have to come back and clean myself up and go to Doetinchem to give W his first English lesson. And I'm *scared*... LOL... I'm only 19, how the &^%$ am I supposed to teach a school principal?! Well, I'll ask Saskia for some tips tomorrow - the first day is always the hardest. I'll be fine. Anyway, then P's coming by after he's done with work (in A'dam) and staying here since he has to go to work in Utrecht the next day... no real point in driving from A'dam to Friesland to Utrecht, is there?
Goodnight!!! *sings* "It's no sac-ri-fiiiiiice at all!"...
It is late late LATE - technically the 4th, as you'll see from the date - and I don't know why I'm still awake... oh yes I do... I'm WIRED!!! And can't stop singing. LOL!
Aaaahhh... Elton was amazing! J and I took the train and then the metro (which is COOL!) to Ahoy, and our seats were good - 21st row was a bit far back for my taste, but we were dead center. Anyway, he started out with a bunch of songs that neither J nor I really knew - newer ones, I think - but then the second half was great! He sang "Candle in the Wind" and "I'm Still Standing" - my two favorites - one after the other, and of course everyone stood up for "I'm Still Standing" and then didn't really ever sit down again... LOL! And I didn't know he sang "Sacrifice"! When he did it, I recognized it, but somehow I'd never known it was from him... one of those songs you hear in the dentist's office and never really 'place'. Anyway, he did all the 'good' ones :) and then left for a while so we could do the obligatory clapping and 'we want more' screaming, but then he came out - out of his stage clothes and in a track suit - and signed some autographs along the front, then thanked everyone for their support and sang "Your Song", changing it a bit so that it fit as of he were singing to the people of Holland. He did the same thing earlier with "Crocodile Rock" - someone who worked on the setup was celebrating his 5-year anniversary with his boyfriend, and so Elton changed the words to fit 'Alan' and 'Dale' - the guys' names - into it. You know, I never really thought about it, but maybe Elton feels more comfortable in Holland because being gay is so normal here? Hmm. Anyway, he also said something which he would never have dared to say if he hadn't been in Europe - he was talking about Reagan and said something like "I don't know what it is about those Republicans in America but it just seems like they have a few less brain cells than everybody else." Everyone cracked up, myself included... but it made me glad I saw him at an international venue. He's English, I keep forgetting that, and not American, so he of course has opinions like that. You just don't generally hear them. :) Anyway, it was nice because he felt very 'real'. Complaints: he overdid the pointing-to-people-and-smiling thing between songs, and he (in general) didn't talk enough in between numbers - he just swung from one right to the next. The few times he did talk, people really listened and as I said, it made him seem more 'real'. He should have done more of that. But overall he was awesome. The best parts were when he was just by himself on the piano, though - with the whole band behind him it made the words hard to understand (not to mention tried to change the beat of your heart, it was that strong of a bass... LOL!)
Anyway, I have to go to bed now - I've got to get up at 7.30 as usual, and then I have to come back and clean myself up and go to Doetinchem to give W his first English lesson. And I'm *scared*... LOL... I'm only 19, how the &^%$ am I supposed to teach a school principal?! Well, I'll ask Saskia for some tips tomorrow - the first day is always the hardest. I'll be fine. Anyway, then P's coming by after he's done with work (in A'dam) and staying here since he has to go to work in Utrecht the next day... no real point in driving from A'dam to Friesland to Utrecht, is there?
Goodnight!!! *sings* "It's no sac-ri-fiiiiiice at all!"...
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