NYC MOG Meet: Thoughts On The Whole Thing .....
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Artist:Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
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Album:Premier Hits
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Track:Are Friends Electric?
One of the things I really dig about MOG is the stellar conversations that comes from sharing experience and that 'experience' comes in 'spades' around these parts.
We all have something to bring to the table.
Okay, show of hands, Who has gotten strange looks when you mention the fact that you are going to see one of your 'online' friends?
Q: So what are you doing this weekend?
A: I'm going to NYC to meet some of my online friends.
Q: Really, Aren't you like, scared?
A: No, because these people have keen intellects and they seem pretty well together.
Q: What if someone turns out to be an axe murderer?
A: Then I will die happy.
The way I talk about you guys to others is in the familiar. It's almost as if we get together daily as a group to decompress, rant and rave, cry, laugh, and generally try to keep in touch. In fact that is exactly what we do and we come and go in shifts. My gig is the late night EST. Others have the day, some this week but not the next one. Still through it all, whatever the time is, we stay together.
My guess is that we just happen to enjoy each others company.
There is this apprehension when meeting some one for the first time. We know the feeling. You get it when you go for a job interview or when you go on a blind date. That metallic taste, OJ and toothpaste, chewing on foil, or like getting a good WHOMP! on the beazer. Your tongue turns to iron and you suddenly think, "I hope I can live up to it".
Erin found me. It was getting near 3ish, I had found a table. While working my way through about a quart and a half of lager and a plate of brats, sauerkraut, and potato salad she rolls up and says, "Are you Chris?"
Me: Erin?
Erin: Hi.
At that point I felt as though I was chewing through the center of an oil tanker. My anxiety was way up. Prickly heat and the feeling the hairs on your neck are standing up.
Digression: I wanted to keep this trip on the cheap. At home I can drink a pint of Lager for about a $3 bucks. NYC the cheapest is $4 bucks and you really don't want to be drinking that stuff. Moving on .....
Recap: tanker, metal mouth, great smile and laugh.
I think I am going to stop there for tonight. I have great audio of a conversation that has to be cleared by Erin first.
In the meantime this is something I saw while cabbing it over to Zum from Penn Station. When I saw this the first person I thought of was Kevin Cooper (aka Rawkiddoh).
The track comes from PopeyePete's Page, with a shout out for Dachmo who set the whole thing up.
Cheers fellas.
Comments (33)
Now we're just rubbing it in . . .
great description of that nervous feeling you get, though. OJ and toothpaste? Cringe. I still can't look at Ford Broncos the same way!
Filling it in and just trying to make it real to you.
Buddy I was quaking in my boots.
Ya know, I didn't have any idea how appropriate this tune really is.
Man, when you hot your hot.
Filling it in and just trying to make it real to you.
I know. And as much as I say things like "rubbing it in", truth be told I'm eating up every word, waiting for more.
Yeah, I know that you know, you know?
Yeah, I know.
you nailed it & I am THRILLED you had such a grand time... funny how - 5 minutes after a first meeting with a MOGger - you're fast friends & family !!!
Yeah 'wet panties' and all.
If you don't remember that I know you were having a good time too.
(Smiles)
In the interest of full disclosure, someone had texted Erin a .......
Ah forget about it.
Wha... who me - having fun... at a festival with fellow MOGgers... nawww really ;)
Wish we could have melded it all together - but alas maybe next year !!!
Dig that.
We should run another Philly get together. Wouldn't want the West Coast to have one up on us.
Okay, show of hands, Who has gotten strange looks when you mention the fact that you are going to see one of your 'online' friends?
[Waves hand wildly in air]
Even better: Who has had to tell her mother, "I'm off to have dinner with a friend of mine. No you don't know her she's from Canada and we've never actually met before we just talk online about a band we love. Okay bye!" Yes, I am an adult but my Mom's my BFF so she gets to hear about all my crazy adventures.
Glad you had fun! I was tres jealous of the NYC meet before your post. I expect more details soon monkey!
You got it Mimi.
So where's the good eats round Memphis way?
Now I'm feeling even worse that I had to back out of attending the NYC mog meet - hoping we can do a fall one when more Moggers are around.
I should be able to swing that.
Rebekah and I are looking forward to saying hi in person.
Having Erin all to myself was great, but I wish more would have come.
I am dying for another Philly meet *&* want to see a redux of NYC !!! At least I know Cody will be around for my trip to NYC on the 19-20 Sept !!!
Mimi... you murderer you ;) My Mum is my bff as well & she's really the only person who actually GETS it... I don't know how or why - I guess she just knows me & knows that I adore all y'all & what grand quality people MOGgers truly are !!!
Can't even imagine my life without all of you in it - don't want to - don't have to so I WON'T !!!
I can't make that weekend because of wifey. I think that's a good enough pass.
Ha, love that picture and before I wrote this I drew it in my sketch book. Like you I think I would be nervous as hell to meet up with the people I talk to here on MOG. Not in a "will I die" kind of way.......that would be if I met up with someone on myspace. MOG is different, people here are different. Things stay positive, and that is what I have always liked about this site. I think the nervousness would come from not knowing. Not knowing who the other person truly is, and worried that they might not know the true you. As I imagined it all turned out good, as it seems all mog meets do. Once again this goes back to the kind of people here on MOG, outside that vandal Rawkkidoh of course
Yes Coop, Yes!
I don't know about all of you, but for me, after that little bit of anxiety comes the feeling of getting together with old, good friends that you haven't seen in a long time.
I've had the pleasure of meeting a few of what I call my Internet Music Nerd Friends and they are easily the best friends I've made in my adult life. You guys rock in so many ways.
I had many people think I was NUTS to share a condo with 7 other MOGGERs for Coachella. To many, you people are strangers and not entirely to be trusted. To me, you are my friends..my very special good friends. So what if the people in our day to day lives don't get it? Their loss.
Guess you all are just stuck with me. :)
Testify Amber, Testify.
Can I get an amen?
Amen...
Sooooo, who all is joining the group for Coachella 2009?
So was anyone an axe murderer? That'd be a good reason to avoid these meets IMHO.
i'm sorry i missed it...
@Chris: All depends on what you want to eat my dear! BBQ is a big thing here and Tops has the best sandwich. Garibaldi's has the best BBQ pizza though. I believe Cody once mentioned Dyer's Burgers (and their famous grease!) and while those are yummy my fave is a Huey's burger. And right down the street from my house you can get the best snowcones at Jerry's.
@Lizzie: My first and favorite victim! (Shhh! Don't tell the others!) I'm not sure if my mom gets it, but I think she trusts me enough to know who's a friend and who's going to chop me into little bits. =)
i love this post! i don't think i ever talk about online friends, i already know it will freak everyone out, let alone the fact that blogging is not even that familiar a concept to the hoi polloi. on the other hand, it probably goes without saying, since everyone knows i am an internet fiend. (unless they all think i spend that much time online just to download porn.)
the pic does look like a Rawkiddoh avatar. bring on the audio - i would love to hear you and Erin talking!
i am known to burst into nervous laughter, just so you know. and i've become a bit more picky about my beer since tasting many good ones in Belgium. (;
i am going to raise you one in the ax murderer dept. and invite nyc area moggers into my nyc apt and onto my roof for a little dual mog mellow set
i will push you off the roof if you try to kill me
old school mogger henry of me and the horse i rode in on fame is having me host his amazing singer songwriter friend christian kjellvander from sweden and i will be playing as well
it will be on saturday night august 30th
christian recently opened up for leonard cohen
woo hoo!
should be good times
hit me up with a mogmail if you'd like the address
I was very very stressed the first time I was going to meet MOGgers in real life. The second one, not really. I'm getting a thick MOG-skin :)
Strange looks? None. I just stop them before they come to be, by glaring ;)
I almost chicken out of my first meet...I even had a friend wait with me. A security blanket friend. She left when I said I was going to stay and go thru with it...I was just so apprehensive.
I know the crazy feeling of telling friends/family that I am meeting someone from my online community. The look they give...like it's the last time they will see you alive.
Truly jealous...truly.
Really? Your boots may have been shaking but you looked cool as a cucumber when I rolled up. Truth be told I was more nervous you'd show up with a box of mensa riddles than an axe, but you put those fears to rest quickly. ;) We made fast friends of it, yes?
I figure in the unlikely event a mogger turned out to be an axe murderer, I'd stand a hell of a lot better chance at hearing something good before I left this mortal coil. hey, maybe even This Mortal Coil!
Nice post, and sweet call on the Numan, C.
I am so coming when there is a philly mogmeet. I am not afraid of you strangers :)
This is unrelated, but I just saw that Andrew Bird is playing in Bethlehem on Oct. 3rd. I don't know if you know or care about him, but I saw him last year and I highly recommend seeing him live. So check it out, if you have the chance.
Glad to hear it happened and charmed by that video clip on the other post, I am. Nothing but good feelings have come out of the MOG Meets I've attended, informal or otherwise. I'd relish spending time with 90 percent of my Trusteds. The rest of you? Um...
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