From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #100 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Thursday, August 19 1999 Volume 02 : Number 100 In This Digest: ----------------- my Sarah release show/party experience [Leif ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:27:20 -0400 From: Leif Subject: my Sarah release show/party experience Hi Navy-Soupers type people, I just subscribed to this mailing list so I'm new here. I suppose I should introduce myself first before plunging into the cd release party post, right? Hehe. Ok, well my name is Leif and I'm a lil`faery ;) and that's enough for now about myself :). Anyway, Steve Ito and Gian Covello were the first ones who introduced me to Sarah's beautiful music b/c they knew how much I loved Tori Amos and told me to check this girl out. And then Dan Stark got me her Universe EP already signed to me for my birthday last year and I thought that was very cool and nice of him! Thank you, Dan! And thank you's to Steve and Gian as well (and James McGarry for the lovely pictures) Well, I fell in love w/her music of course! And at the time I lived in California, so no way would I be close enough to see Sarah perform. But then I moved to NYC last autumn and finally saw her!! YAY. ok I think that's enough for an introduction :] ... So Dan drove himself, Debbie, and me 10 hrs to Toronto to make it to both private and public release shows (but not Saturday's show b/c we had to be back in time to pick up my family from the airport :( sigh). So this would be my 3rd and 4th Sarah shows that I would have gone to. But I'm only going to write about Thursday's Show since that would be the day the Sarah release experience thingy happened :D So a couple of hours before the show at Steve's place, I told him that Sarah wrote me a letter thanking me for the birthday card I sent her etc. and how I wrote a letter back which included a song request ...and I couldn't remember which song it was at first. But then I thought of faeries and was like "I Know"!! was the song. So at the private show, Sarah did her whole set (WHICH TOTALLY KICKED ASS AND ROCKED)...and it occurred to me near the end that she didn't play that song and I was a little disappointed :( Then she came back out for the encore. As she sat down she looked down at the very front of the stage where I was sitting, smiled and waved. Well at this point, Dan was sitting next to me and I turned to him and asked him if she was waving at him since they know each other. And he said he doesn't know, that she could be waving at me. (I was a little jealous hehe) Then she says, "This song is I Know" and I stopped talking and was thinking to myself..hey, that's the song I requested...cool! and then she says, "this is for Leif" and I was just like screaming in my head like NO WAY! and my expressions were as follows: :O and :D and :) and :D and almost a :,) but I held back etc...and turned back to Dan and said "nevermind" hehe Then her string section was messing up the song and she had to start over (for those of you who were there, you know what I'm talking about) and when everything was figured out, she made a noise "bbrrzrzbbrr...Rewind! This song is I Know, this is for Leif" and everyone there was laughing because it was really cute and funny! Then she leaves to go backstage after the encore and gets called to come back out to accept a plaque for THAT SONG! What a perfect set up I thought...so you have to wonder if she knew about the plaque or if it was just pure coincidence. Hmmmm... Then after all that and after most everyone has talked to her and got autographs...she sees me and says, "Leeeeif!" (because that's how she always calls me) and gets up to hug me :D and I thanked her for playing that song etc...and she signed the insert of the new cd. For those of you who has read it this far and are curious to know what it says, here it is: Leif.. Could you be cuter if you tried? Thanks...Sarah Slean and on the Universe Poster it says: Leif faeries... Sarah Slean with a smiley face. Dan had mentioned to Sarah, "You know, she'll never stop talking about this" and Sarah laughed. That was pretty much it for the first night...AND I SAID HI TO HER FOR YOU JJ :D (and Rori :P) Oh, and the Friday show was good too!! :D I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to Sarah, I hope James and Steve remembered to! ;) So now you all know the story behind that song dedication and more. :) I hope I didn't bore anyone on this list :] and if I didn't, I'll just assume you deleted it after reading the first line or something ;) heh. OK this post is WAY too long, so I'm going to go bi bi now. THANK YOU to all those who actually read this and can join me in smileys :D b/c it was really sweet for Sarah to do that and makes me LOVE her even more! Yippee... Toodles n Huggles, Leif ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #100 *******************************