{"id":896,"date":"2008-12-08T03:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/08\/the-city-of-the-golden-friendship\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T08:17:14","slug":"the-city-of-the-golden-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/08\/the-city-of-the-golden-friendship","title":{"rendered":"BP in the City of the Golden Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from that pitiful excuse of a solo called &#8220;Far Greater Love,&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_896_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_896_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_896_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_896_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">I know, I know, I shouldn&#8217;t be too OC about it<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_896_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_896_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> the group&#8217;s trip to CDO was a very enlightening experience for me. I never realized how far I could go for the love of this group. <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t supposed to go, there were so many reasons not to; My Dad&#8217;s birthday was the next day, we were only essentially spending one day there, and will only be able to do what we set out to do; the concert. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_896_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_896_1('footnote_plugin_reference_896_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_896_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">2 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_896_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">I can only speak for myself, but most of the appeal of any out-of-town trip is the excursion aspect of it<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_896_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_896_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> We had <em>another<\/em> performance at Gesu the next day (Dad&#8217;s B-day)&#8230; oh, and I haven&#8217;t even factored in that solo cluster-fuck of mine that was slated to happen during the concert, nor having to sleep in the hallway for a while (being the idiot that I am, I had forgotten to take the keys from my room-mates).<\/p>\n<p>Given I&#8217;m the type of guy who could refuse to be part of a gig for the simple reason of not wanting to wake up too early, yeah, this trip should&#8217;ve been a no-brainer for me. 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