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I finally got to scream for a Beatle.

I shouldn't phrase it that way, I know - I mean, he's been a former-Beatle about twice as long as he was one - but it's all I could think during Hello, Goodbye last night, when I finally got to se Paul McCartney live in concert.

The show was beyond unbelievable. Living in Miami, we have a knack for getting the last show of a tour here - the last or the first. Back in December, I went to U2's last concert in the states - I think it was actually the full out end of the Elevation tour - and I cried with everyone else in the mass grieving that accompanied Walk On and the devestating list of the names of the murder victim/heroes on the planes and the heroes among the FDNY and NYPD. Last night, he unfurled a banner signed by thousands of New Yorkers in praise of freedom. I think a week ago I would've felt otherwise about the lines to the song, but the reasons why I feel that perhaps we haven't all been in this "together" are for another time.

This post is for wondering and wonderfuling.

The songs - I mean, the songs! Forty years of wonderful songs! And he really rocked - wonderful young band, and even Sir Paul jumped around with more energy than I can even really comprehend. Nearly every song I really wanted to hear was played - from Blackbird to Yesterday to Here, There and Everywhere - the 80s were practically skipped, but well, that's ok too.

Aaron and I so rarely say that we both have a *great* time going to concerts together - our musical tastes are just different enough that only at Billy Joel concerts have we both been able to say we both had a *great* time. But last night, we did. And I'll never forget that at the terribly pathetic age of 31, I finally got to scream for a Beatle.

Anyone want a bite of fandom history?

From October 23, 2000
Cassie's first time in a Sunday HPfGU chat

cassandraclaire73 enters
hert0661isme says, hello
cassandraclaire73 says, simon, which one are you?
hert0661isme hops around Cassandra
hert0661isme says, I am simon
cassandraclaire73 says, hi simon!
cassandraclaire73 says, i owe you one for the leather pants thing
hert0661isme says, I do not think I will ever forget that conversation!
cassandraclaire73 says, im really sorry simon. it wasn't my idea!
hert0661isme says, I do not mind really - it is oneof the perils of being
a male on a female dominated group!
cassandraclaire73 says, i know, simon and you're very good about it
hert0661isme says, I am talking about PoU, and the lack of male posters
there
cassandraclaire73 says, well, rave drew you that picture so now you can be
happy
cassandraclaire73 says, i'm sad i missed last weeks slash pairing discusson
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Simon didn't like it
siriusgeologist says, that was interesting...and I did go read BOCA
cassandraclaire73 says, erk. *sorry simon*
cassandraclaire73 says, i read it too
hert0661isme says, I do not mind - just does not interest me
cassandraclaire73 says, i think its funny...
siriusgeologist says, well written....but you know how I feel about sirius
blaise_42 says, sirius is excellent in BOCA
siriusgeologist says, yes well characterized
cassandraclaire73 says, i liked BOCA.
hert0661isme says, this is how it started last week!
cassandraclaire73 says, a lot of slash tends to be very angsty and it wasn't
cassandraclaire73 says, simon, you are going to grow to hate me
blaise_42 says, Love in the ruins had a bit more angst to it but also was
very funny
hert0661isme says, are you writing slash then?
cassandraclaire73 says, me?
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Cassandra, are you putting a / in DS?
catlady_de_los_angeles says, It's alread a soap opera
cassandraclaire73 says, can you imagine? I'd have to leave the country
hert0661isme says, I will just hide and make myself a cup of tea in the
background and change cd
blaise_42 says, which is a soap opera?
catlady_de_los_angeles says, DS
blaise_42 says, oh yes. and PoU
cassandraclaire73 says, no, but someone sent me a 'alternate ending' to DD
once that starred Harry and Draco
blaise_42 says, hehe
cassandraclaire73 says, it was very very very funny
cassandraclaire73 says, better than my ending. although simon wouldn't have
liked it


heiditandy enters
cassandraclaire73 says, heidi!
catlady_de_los_angeles says, bye bye Nick
babynick34 leaves
€ heiditandy says, hi - hope everyone is having a great day
hert0661isme says, hello and bye - aimed at different people
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Hi, Heidi
€ heiditandy says, Cassandra - is it really you? : )
cassandraclaire73 says, why not?
€ heiditandy says, I guess so - I don't see a "1" in your name ; )
cassandraclaire73 says, they missed their oppornity to really make fun of me
cassandraclaire73 says, too bad
cassandraclaire73 says, it was far too short
€ heiditandy doesn't think that's so easy to do - you'll get all sarcastic
on them & hurt their feelings.

hert0661isme says, I am still around - just looking at some fanfic - ie
adding to my list of stuff to read
cassandraclaire73 leaves
cassandraclaire73 enters
€ heiditandy says, fanfiction.net is working again - good.
heiditandy says, but is very slow - every time they re-add full text
searching it goes all evil and messy

catlady_de_los_angeles says, Let'stalk about sex and violence instead
cassandraclaire73 says, okay, you start
cassandraclaire73 says, you know there was an article in entertainment
weekly a while ago on 'websites you never want to see'
hert0661isme says, well this gets us back to amputating Draco's leg!
cassandraclaire73 says, one was 'harry potter slash fiction'
hert0661isme says, I believe I am to be characterised as a bad guy in one
of the up coming fics to be written by Penny and Carole!
cassandraclaire73 says, there's going to be a bad simon?
hert0661isme says, I would like to meet him
cassandraclaire73 says, i thought about naming one of the aurors simon
cassandraclaire73 says, just to annoy you
hert0661isme says, If they write another story then it is a possibility
cassandraclaire73 says, but i cut that bit
hert0661isme says, why not?
hert0661isme says, or maybe why?
cassandraclaire73 says, chapter already far too long
cassandraclaire73 says, lori always tells me my chapters are too long.
cassandraclaire73 says, but she's allowed since we talk on the phone
catlady_de_los_angeles says, You read your chapters to her on the phone,
and the length drives up her phone bill?
cassandraclaire73 says, no, she's just allowed to abuse me because then i
can abuse her back
cassandraclaire73 says, but i know what'S going to happen in TSNE
cassandraclaire73 says, rita actually gave me the best review of DD that i
ever got, ever
catlady_de_los_angeles says, in HPfG?
cassandraclaire73 says, yes
cassandraclaire73 says, it was the first time i realized anyone over the age
of 14 read anything i wrote


cassandraclaire73 says, it's just funny, it's not like there';s any mention
in the books that sirius is a ladykiller
cassandraclaire73 says, but it seems to be accepted fact
hert0661isme says, who is there that would describe him as being such a
person?
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Does it say in the books that he was a big
drinker?
cassandraclaire73 says, *looks surprised* i don't think so
hert0661isme says, there is little mention of any of the martauders pasts
hert0661isme sneezes.
cassandraclaire73 says, all the fanfic i;ve read has sirius as a womanizer
cassandraclaire73 says, admittedly i haven't read much

Again, I am left wordless, so I will let this speak for itself.