Most people that know me know that I text like a fiend. And most of those people know that I have recently and heavily embraced Twitter and all its Twitter-ness. I am twitterpated with Twitter, basically, complete with lame hashtags and useless updates that hopefully are funny every once in a while.
The other day I had a conversation (again over text message) with one of the three musical acts with whom I have been playing this summer, the vertically challenged but immensely talented Sara Elizabeth (see her Facebook page and check out a sample of us at this YouTube video). Sara also greatly enjoys texting and Tweeting, and this conversation (among others) helped us realize that we may be too attached to our social technologies (WARNING: What follows is pathetically funny. Or just pathetic...hopefully the former).
Joe: Where's Saturday's gig?
Sara: Goodrich Coffe & Tea.
Joe: Ah, right. Cool beans.
Joe: Or hot beans, depending on how you like your coffee. #badpun
Sara: Iced beanz #totesmostdef
Joe: Hellz yeah! #Godwearelame Fwd: From Sara Genco Iced beanz #totesmostdef (I did this in order to use the texting equivalent of a Retweet)
Sara: #unstoppablepowerofnerdywhitegirlandindianboy #ilovecoffee
Joe: Booyah! #unstoppablepowerofnerdywhitegirlandindianboy #ilovecoffee (Subsequent thought: "Did I just use 'booyah'? The '90s called, they want their word back so they can bury it for good.")
Sara: bahahaha are you tweeting these texts too?
Joe: No, but I may have to, haha.
Joe: That's why I called us lame...
Sara: Hahahaha #werenotlame #doesn'teveryoneusehashtagsinnormalconversation #duhz
Joe: #mybad #realizationfail #Twitterislife
Sara: #ithappenz #canwealwaystalklikethis #imightsavethisconvoforevz
Joe: #thingsweneedtodo #kindofourthing #imightsavethisconvoforevz
Sara: #thisistoomuch #alltextslocked#unstoppablepowerofnerdywhitegirlandindianboy #thatissolong
...(About twelve hours later, discussing subsequent weekends and possible gigs - my schedule is a little up in the air)
Joe: I'd like to play...Not sure what else life will require of me that weekend, though. :)
Sara: Haha alright we can play it by ear! One weekend at a time ha
Joe: Indeed, that's how I've been living the entire summer!
Sara: We live life playing by ear #bahaha #morebadpuns
Joe: #groan ;)
It's a good thing we're semi-professional musicians, 'cause the automatic coolness that comes from that is the only thing that could possibly validate us.
Anyway, for a much less pathetic display of our interaction with each other, come see us play at Goodrich Coffee & Tea this Saturday (tomorrow, July 9th 7:30-9:30 PM) - you won't be disappointed, I promise! :) And stay tuned to our Facebook pages for upcoming gigs, we've both got a bunch of them coming up this summer, both separate and together. See you there, hopefully, and keep an eye out for our soon-to-be-trademarked hashtag:
#unstoppablepowerofnerdywhitegirlandindianboy!
...bahahahahaha. Y'all are too much.
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ReplyDeleteBtw. We really are siblings. Like we talk similarly. And you hashtag things that I would totally hashtag. Jussayin.