I'd played European style handball once in Germany, and a bastardized (or betterized?) version was popular in my high school gym class. The gym teacher that would usually run the games was stereotypical. You'd get extra credit if you bled.
My team consisted of novices. It was Kat, Damien, and Philippa. Damien said that his name was not spelled like the antihero's in The Omen, but I don't know how to spell that name any other way. We lost the three round robin games, each in penalty shots. Handball has a retarded rule that if your team wins the first half and the other team wins the second, then you go to penalty shots no matter the total score is. I played goalie. We won our only playoff game and Damien won most valuable player in the novice league.
The Pink Floyd concert was awesome and it was one of my top five concerts I've seen. I don't get out much. Roger Waters was the song writer for Pink Floyd's best albums, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. He went for high production value and his band sounded exactly like the albums. I don't know why I know so many Pink Floyd songs. In high school band, The Wall was a popular movie to watch. I don't own Wish You Were Here anymore and I still knew most of the lyrics to most of the songs. Here's the set as I remember it:- In The Flesh (The Wall)
- Mother (The Wall)
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
- Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Part Something) (Wish You Were Here)
- Welcome to the Machine (Wish You Were Here)
- Wish You Were Here (Wish You Were Here)
- 3 or 4 songs from Roger Waters solo career (Who wrote the guitar riffs for Pink Floyd? The solo stuff pales in comparison.)
15 minute break - Speak to Me/Breath (Dark Side of the Moon)
- On the Run (Dark Side of the Moon)
- Time (Dark Side of the Moon)
- The Great Gig in the Sky (Dark Side of the Moon)
- Money (Dark Side of the Moon)
- Us and Them (Dark Side of the Moon)
- Brain Damage (Dark Side of the Moon)
- Eclipse (Dark Side of the Moon)
Encore - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) (The Wall)
- Nobody Home (The Wall)
- Vera (The Wall)
- Bring the Boys Back Home (The Wall)
- Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
You can see that I was far up in the stands. What you see in the black screen is the video that was playing during the show. The visuals for "Wish You Were Here" were the best. The band stopped "Welcome to the Machine" and a shot of an old radio came up. Hands occasionally fumbled with the knobs throughout the song.
Three things would have made the concert better. First, they didn't play my favorite Pink Floyd song "Fearless." Second, in the second act when they performed songs from Dark Side of the Moon, they should have shown The Wizard of Oz. My neighborhood in Seattle showed outdoor summer movies. (Be careful. The first link is not work safe.) Traditionally, they'd end the season with The Wizard of Oz followed by The Dark Side of Oz. Start Dark Side of the Moon from the third lion roar and the synchronicities are uncanny. When I saw it, they had free beer between the two shows, but you could only drink the beer in the warehouse and not see the screen. You had fifteen to down what you could. Hmmh, maybe I have found the reason for the synchronicities. Three, Dar Williams should have been there to join in on "Comfortably Numb."The second photo is a shot of central Christchurch from the top of Jade Stadium. I'll finish this entry quoting the lyrics from the second part of the first verse of "Fearless" because I like the song so much.
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb
The hill in my own way.
Just wait a while for the right day.
And as I rise above the tree-line and the clouds
I look down, hearing the sound of the things you've said today.
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