In May, we took a weekend trip to visit some of our JCCC2 cruise friends. Kate and Jim live in Wisconsin, and Rachel and Matt live in Minnesota, so we met up at Kate and Jim's. We all admitted that our home friends had asked us, "What if they're psycho, or you guys don't really like each other anymore?" Good news! Not noticeably psycho! And probably like them more! I mean, what's not to love about this handsome crew?
We played a lot of Dominion, ate great food and craft beer at The Horny Goat, had a sing-along, and lounged at the beach. Turns out Jim and Kate do sand sculptures, and I realized I had a picture of their work in the Bahamas from before I met them!
(Kate and Jim are behind Mr. Coulton on the left. Note the intricate skull on Skullcrusher Mountain, as well as the great drawing of the JoCo from our badges. Normally, they have a whole arsenal of sand sculpting tools, but most of this, I believe, was done with a butter knife.)
These people are very multi-talented! A promotional video for JCCC3 recently came out, and part of Jim and Matt's open mic offering can be seen at the 2:04 mark (as well as my Matt and my elbow in the left corner). Their performance came together about an hour before when Jim said, "Hey, I've got a guitar app on my phone..."
If you liked Matt M's iPhone performance, you should hire him to play at your next event in Minnesota, or check out his new album (my favorite is "Nothing Personal").
In other JoCo/SeaMonkey news, Jonathan Coulton played a show at the Ark about a week ago! The show was great, and it was a bona fide Rock n' Roll show with ringing ears and a guy dropping his pants on stage and everything! The pants-dropping, ever-tuning John Roderick opened, doing acoustic renditions of his The Long Winters songs. JoCo had his band, which was different from the acoustic sets I've seen him do at the Ark before, and even let Scarface (his assistant) sing a song. (Scarface is wearing a sweet TMBG shirt I covet a little. It has the same design as a recent tour shirt of theirs, but the colors were different. Special edition shirt, or bleach?)
We met up with fellow JCCC2 SeaMonkeys afterward and got a picture:
We first met Dan and Erin (on the right) at a Denny's in Florida after the cruise. Erin was wearing her cruise shirt so we knew they must have just come from the same place as us. And because it seemed like the right thing to do, we had a guy who was making balloon animals make a monkey and drop it off at their table. A real "meet cute", huh?
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Yay! You guys are awesome! We must get together soon. :)
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