I love weird-ass, funny coincidences

So my lovely friend Julie sends me an email this morning, telling me that Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, and Tony Trischka were on Letterman last night. If I may quote this great, sagacious lady:

THREE banjos! It was awesome!

So I'm thinking to myself, "I gotta get me some of that." Because, you know, Cullen like, totally freaks out over two banjos. But THREE banjos? Man. Brain hemorrhage city, and I gots me a bitchin' post.

Well, anyway, it's not online as far as I can tell. But Julie directed me to the Tony Trischka [genuflect] website which has a link to Tony Trischka and Steve Martin. Yeah, only two banjos but whaddya gonna do?

Well, anyway, that's not what's so freakin' weird-ass funny. What's so freakin' weird-ass funny is that while searching for the clip of THREE, COUNT 'EM, THREE BANJOS, I came across this clip of Bela Fleck [genuFleck (heh, get it? "genuFLECK"? I crack me up)] playing with the Dave Matthews Band. Watch the clip. I mean it. Bela is incredible and so is that fiddler with the, um, not exactly sure what it is, kind of a Rasta topknot or something. Anyway, he's unbelievable.

Well, anyway, that's not what's so freakin' weird-ass funny. What's so freakin' weird-ass funny is that when I finally got home from work and cracked open a bottle of proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy, I checked email and had a notice from Ticketmaster:

"Don't miss Dave Matthews Band at the Shoreline Amphitheater".

Hey, it's late in the week and it amused me. And seeing as how tomorrow is my Friday, that makes today something like "Second Thursday" or "Fifth Monday", so I'm trying to drink heavily, and I'm raising a glass to the Banjophobe. May your potential prospect be what you hope for, and may I someday find that THREE, COUNT 'EM, THREE BANJOS clip online.

Anyway, I suspect I'll miss the concert since they didn't promise Bela Fleck would be there.

Posted by Ken S at April 27, 2007 06:39 PM | TrackBack (0) |