Sunshine
726 posts
Jul 16, 2009
8:22 PM
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just thinking about your wonderful travels across our beautiful country.......jest check in once in a while......
:o)
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FireFly
582 posts
Jul 17, 2009
9:51 AM
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I just saw this.
right now I'm sittin at a reststop 20 miles away from detroit. we just came from WV , the allgood festival, while I was there listening to jackie greene one afternoon , nodding of in the grass, i heard someone behind me tryin to get my attention, didn't get it until she said"firefly' it was shira, beaufro and JD's cute little friend. she is travelin around for music just like me.
save travels to shira!!!
we will hang in detroit for a few days and than off to minnesota.
I just found out that we will be working in chicago for lollapalooza!!! very excited for that.
P.S while driving on a countryhighway thru ohio last night , I saw , no kidding, thousands of fireflies, i have never seen soo many
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giggles
663 posts
Jul 17, 2009
10:27 AM
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FireFly, my alien partner in crime, oh I how I miss thee!
Hope you are having a WONDERFUL summer, I can't wait to see you again! =)
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FireFly
585 posts
Jul 17, 2009
10:30 AM
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sounds like you are having a wonderful summer too. goin to any dave shows? besides outside lands?
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
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Sunshine
733 posts
Jul 17, 2009
1:26 PM
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FF, very cool firefly siting that must have been indeed! I love your "free spirited" life across the county, and all the amazing music and folks you must come across in all your travels. You should keep a journal! Be safe and above all, have a wonderful time!
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No effort, stay the same
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mofrofans1
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1968 posts
Jul 17, 2009
2:51 PM
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Hey thanks Sunshine for putting out a FireFly lookout. Been wanting to do the same thing. Good to hear from you FF! Haven't heard from you much. You haven't been posting as much as last summer. You don't like us anymore.
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Sunshine
736 posts
Jul 17, 2009
3:44 PM
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I can be the designated FF spotter if you want?!?! :o) Sounds like she is quite busy at work and that has to be a great feeling to have: a line of work that is busy and to love what you are doing....
I heard someone say, she ain't never comin bayck.......
just kidding, I couldn't resist!!
:o)
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No effort, stay the same
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FireFly
588 posts
Jul 18, 2009
12:47 PM
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well If I was sittin around the house all day long like you clay, I would post more too,lol
I'm in port huron right now
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Sunshine
746 posts
Jul 18, 2009
6:34 PM
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LOL!! where is port huron?
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mofrofans1
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1973 posts
Jul 18, 2009
8:03 PM
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Damn dyslexia. I thought she said she was in porn hurton...
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FireFly
591 posts
Jul 18, 2009
8:13 PM
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hahah....maybe that's were the bacon is
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mofrofans1
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1974 posts
Jul 18, 2009
8:24 PM
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Maybe that's where the bacon went!
Cold up there huh? Take it while you can. You KNOW what the weather is here so I ain't go to tell you. Hope you're having the time of your life! Hey to Rob.
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FireFly
592 posts
Jul 18, 2009
8:36 PM
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yeah and they call this summer, don't wanna know what winter looks like,
I met this girl that works the catering at festivals, she might be able to get me a job as a "festival pastry chef" , that would be super awesome!
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mofrofans1
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1980 posts
Jul 18, 2009
8:46 PM
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OMG! That's like a dream come true.
For them that don't know, in one of her past lives on another planet in another galaxy far, far away FireFly was a pastry chef.
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Sunshine
750 posts
Jul 18, 2009
9:08 PM
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......my antenna just went up..........
:o)
I heard the word chef......pastry at that, something I have yet to conquer...
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FireFly
606 posts
Jul 22, 2009
10:58 AM
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hi ya'll, so i'm in minnesota now, on the way to the 10000lake festival.
saw a seriously sick wilco show last night. pretty awesome.
not sure if i will have internet there, if not, hope you all have a blast in atlanta, park and party save, watch for nails and make sure you put the wristband on the right arm..... :) !!!!!!
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Sunshine
778 posts
Jul 22, 2009
11:07 AM
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Thnaks for checking in FF!! Your Mama should be proud!!
:o)
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mofrofans1
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2017 posts
Jul 22, 2009
5:21 PM
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Sometimes it takes an interplanetary alien to dole out some wise advice. And we thank you.
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FireFly
611 posts
Jul 23, 2009
5:38 PM
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yeah i guess all the festivals nowadays bring a cellphone tower of some sorts, because I usually don't ever get any service. pretty cool.
just chillin before the wilco show.
I was just thinking about when mofro played here last year on the stage with the best views of 2 of the 10000 lakes.
it was also the first time i met lilbowbow.
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FireFly
615 posts
Jul 23, 2009
6:02 PM
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I just remembered to tell you all a story.
so we went to royal oak to see wilco. it's very small venue. it was totally sold out, I wanted to get there early , see about maybe the boxoffice releasing more tickets and than hang around the area until showtime. we get there at 10.30 am. there are bunch of people hanging out, I think "great" , that must mean there is a chance for tickets. I walk up to find out from those folks whats up. and they weren't waiting for tickets, they were sitting there to be first in line to get in when the doors opened at 7.30pm!!!!
that is crazy i thought, so I hang around ,score one ticket from a lady whos husband couldn't make it.
still wondering about those crazy fans I started to talk to them to find out.
turns out that they are just like us!!!
they all met because of their love for this band on a messageboard, they meet up before shows, they looked out for each other for tickets,they travel and fly to shows, they stay in the same hotel and so on.
I think thats pretty cool, except maybe waiting outside for hours.
they told me when wilco played in chicago one winter, it was soo cold, well its chicago, the band send out hot chocolate .
One time one of them didn't have tickets and their TM hooked her up.
jeff tweedy makes a point to recognize them during the show.
sounds familiar?? It made me seriously smile to think that music does that people, no matter what style they like, but it's also the BAND and their down to earth attitude that does that to their fans.
pretty cool, right?
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
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mofrofans1
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2037 posts
Jul 23, 2009
7:58 PM
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That is very cool FireFly. Thanks for sharing that. It does all sound quite familiar doesn't it? But I beg to differ: we're crazier fans than they are!
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FireFly
618 posts
Jul 24, 2009
1:22 AM
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and when we sit outside somewhere in the freezin ass cold , don't send me fuckin hot choc. , let me in and give me some whiskey
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Sunshine
793 posts
Jul 24, 2009
5:06 AM
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Great Story Firefly! :o)
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FireFly
628 posts
Aug 07, 2009
9:04 AM
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i think its time for another update.
after 10000 lake festival in minnesota we drove aaallll the way to NY. I cursed that ride all the way there.too long.
but I got to hang with some old friends and go to my favorite sushi place. ( i used to live there)
we worked all points west festival which turned into all points wet. the mud was disgustingly incredible.
not fun at all.
there was one day when the sun was out and we did some running around in the city, guggenheim museum, central park. ended up at battery park where arlo guthrie was giving a free performance. it was sweet to see fireflies flyin around in a little piece of green in south manhattan.
next stop: chicago. we took 2 girls we're working with us as they are running this event .
so right now I'm sitting on the floor of a tiny apartment in lincoln park. a friend is letting all of us crash with her, which is very generous.
yesterday we went to the art museum, its free on thursday nights. chicago is a great city.
we are handling the catering and artist hospitality departments at lollapalooza, should be fun...off I go.
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mofrofans1
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2117 posts
Aug 07, 2009
9:11 AM
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"...and go to my favorite sushi place. (i used to live there)"
Leave it to FireFly; she's the only person I've ever known that's lived in a sushi restaurant.
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FireFly
629 posts
Aug 07, 2009
9:29 AM
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hahaha, if i could I would so totally live there
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Sunshine
880 posts
Aug 07, 2009
11:41 AM
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Thanks for the update! wow, you travel bout much as the Boys do. Hopefully you will have better weather. would have checked in sooner, but I am not at work in front of the puter, took the day off. Had to put 110 lbs of pork butts on the smokers last night and had to git up bout 7:30 this morning to start pulling the pork for a gig for about 100 folks for lunch today (ain't nuthin like eatin pork fer morning vittles hot off the grill and gettin those pieces that stuck to the grate - we call that pork candy!!), then I had to mow the yard, then played softball with the youngin, then came inside to clean up all the pork grease and bitties in the kitchen, Just had familia from WI and TN now gittn ready for the Mum in law tonight....gonna go and git make me a Cherokee Purple Mater and Crunchy Cuke sammich with a slather of Mayo on sour dough bread........
Til next time Firefly!!!
:o)
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FireFly
630 posts
Aug 09, 2009
10:07 PM
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I can't read your posts about pork, sunshine, that makes me seriously hungry,lol
lolla was fun, i love chicago, great city.
watching bands perform with the chicago skyline as a backdrop was awesome.
we went to one late night show at the house of blues for sts9,
for you not familiar with chicago, there are these 2 identical condotowers, right on the chicago river , called the marine towers, they kinda look like a corn on the cobb with all the corn eaten off.
the HoB sits right in between those 2.
cool venue, probably my fav HoB of all of them ( I've been to the one in LA , new orleans and orlando)
I'm here for 2 more days, gotta work little bit tomorrow, goin to see phish on tuesday and than drive to arkansas to the mulberry mountain harvest fest on wednesday.
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