I admit. I am a glutton for my birthday. Often my plaintive cries of “MY DAY” have been expanded into “MY WEEK” and on one memorably occassion “MY MONTH!!!”. Fortunately for the rest of the world, Heather wasn’t having ANY of that and beat me down with something big and wrapped and heavy and the remainder of February was saved for all the REST of the good boys and girls.
The Lovely audience for my birthday show at Java Mammas on February 6th.
For the suprise-rob-day-tribute Ashraf Dawod did an amazing “immigrantized” (his word, not mine!) version of “Allergy”.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Happy bunny bunny birthday to me.
Acacia Sears and Rowan Corbett at Java Mammas for my birthday. Acacia performed “Crazy As A Good Thing” and was beyond cute when she got really, really nervous.OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Ah, the fine up-and-comers We’re Going to Hell For This performed “Drown”. I don’t have really good pictures of everyone – let it be known that Dave Perolman did an awesome version of “Drift”, Michael Berkowitz performed “Trouble”, Heather did “Cricket Hunt” and Hannah Spiro did a Lovely version of “Speaking Louder Now”. I approve.
Brennan Kuhns was the Lovely thinker-outer of the rob day show – about to perform an instrumental version of “Bulldozer”.
Acacia Sears and Heather wailing away at my open mic at Java Mammas.They blow my mind together and count myself as blessed by some deity. A
In any case, Heather and Brennan blind-slided me with the best birthday present EVER. IÂ went to my alarmingly (and amazingly) over-crowded Wednesday night open mic and saw lots of wonderful people, but little did I know that Heather and Brennan had conspired with some of my favourite local singer/songwriters to do a rob-tribute.
I admit, I felt kind of bad for the one or two people who were entirely new to my open mic – who had no idea who I was much less that it was my birthday, they got shoved back on the list to get all the rob songs over with and had to wait through a LOT of “i LOVE YOU MAN”s over this guy they’d never heard of.
Poor souls.
Heather’s parents came out and brought me a wonderful bunny cake and sang “Happy Birthday” to me and generally I think this was my best birthday ever EVEN better than the one where all my friends surprised me and took me roller skating because THOUGH that was awesome that was when the girl that I wanted to go to prom with spent the entire party locked in the bathroom with the guy she eventually DID go to prom with.
Grrrowl.
