From helping my child host some friends to a Hanukkah party and experiencing The Festival of Lights for their first time ever, to a lazy day wandering around town with my BooBae having lunch together, trying to figure out the best way to help our kids succeed. This included a trip to The Source Comics and Gaming store, where I had a very satisfying NERDGASM.
What is a “Nerdgasm”, you ask?
What I can tell you, as a proud, card-carrying Nerd myself?
I love Star Wars anything.
I love Star Trek, especially the 1st two entries in the JJ Abrams reboots.
Indiana Jones and The Raiders of The Lost Ark, is my #1 favorite movie of all time; a list that includes other cinematic heavyweights like The Godfather, Jaws, The Usual Suspects, The Big Lebowski, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
But my most favorite geekery is with Comic Book heroes.
While I’ve always followed DC’s best and biggest (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and Flash...), it’s Marvel Entertainment that’s best captured my imagination since childhood, and sustains my interest in its characters to-this-day!
This love goes back to my earliest childhood memory. My parents knew this, and made comic books and heroes the theme of my bar mitzvah party, back in 1986. I remember the joyous surprise that greeted me as I walked in the doors at my synagogue; a life-sized, cardboard cut-out of Captain America!!
So...you can imagine my delight at seeing all these fellow geeks, fully costumed, and wandering around The Source, in celebration of their 25th anniversary celebration and jubilee.
When suddenly, it became my job to enter the superhero fray!
There I was, trying to separate Cap and Bucky (a.k.a. the Winter Soldier) from killing each other over what ....world domination? Black widow? Who knows....but there they were, along with The Scarlet Witch, Spawn, The Green Hornet, and even Loki, The G-d of Mischief.
But what a day hanging out with all my favorite geeks and heroes all day long, including and most of all, my completely GORGEOUS, number one gal; my partner of sixteen years and counting, Justine.
...not to mention my gig with the Soul Shack, where we debuted our collaboration with the bass player from SpyMob and N.E.R.D, Christian Twigg. We also got a chance to spontaneously back up the owner of the company that was our client that night. We made a pretty funky jam with them not to mentiong our sound check to start the show at 5:30 was out of this world and I was perfectly fine not doing a favorite like "Black Cow", in deference to this made up funk jam we created instead.
And being able to collaborate with the son (Jason) of a woman (Tracee) whose engagement party I played with my acoustic duo, while the son did our sound engineering that night? SofaKing cool. It’s like the relationship I forged with Tracee, and her fiancé Stu, had already given me so much in the form of support and attendance at my gigs, bringing new ears-and-eyes to my gigs, introducing me to new friends and clients, and now? Helping me connect with Jason Peterson of Basques Productions...who we'll be collaborating with again, on Thursday December 27th, when The Soul Shack makes their debut at The Minnesota Music Cafe.
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