Two shows with Patrick Rothfuss | Wrapup post
We had a pretty amazing couple days last week. On Monday we were invited to be musical guests on "Late Night Action With Alex Falcone"—a live comedy-interview-sketch show in Portland which is really, genuinely, professionally hilarious. It was a fantastic experience for us... and made even more amazing because the other guests included Reggie Aqui and Patrick Rothfuss, who were both the MOST CHARMING in their interviews with the hilarious hosts Bri Pruett and Alex Falcone. If you can make it out to see the show, we highly recommend it. It's a Portland GEM.On TUESDAY we had another crazy experience: Patrick Rothfuss invited us to open for him at the HUGE AND BEAUTIFUL AND CLASSY Newmark Theater for his huge official Powell's reading for his new GREAT NOVELLA. Every part of that sentence is amazing.A little backstory: we met Patrick Rothfuss for the first time (i THINK) backstage at w00tstock in 2013. I had read Rothfuss' books, and wanted badly to geek out over him, but we really hate meeting people before they know who we are. There's an awkward moment of "Oh hello I am a musician" when you meet someone, where they have to evaluate (A) whether you want something from them (B) whether you are legit, and they have to be nice to you, or you are not so legit, and they should not let you get too comfortable. Possibly that is my paranoia. Anyway, backstage at w00tstock that year was an especially weird night for us, because we weren't performing, so there was no real proof that we were legit at all and not just weirdos who snuck backstage.FORTUNATELY, the amazing Paul & Storm allowed us to debut our video for Nothing to Prove at that show, and Patrick Rothfuss SAW IT and he LIKED IT and we got to meet him and it was super neat. And then we saw him again on the floor at Gen Con and he stopped us to tell us that "Nothing to Prove" was a perfectly framed piece of rhetoric, and I just about passed out. That was neat.And then bla bla bla now we're friends and he asked us to open for him on the Portland stop of his tour! Of course, we couldn't resist trying to get him to play cat keyboard on the burrito song....
Loved seeing @PatrickRothfuss live, but I'm afraid this might have still been my favorite part [@TheDoubleclicks] pic.twitter.com/VHkrImwHs6— GeekPortland (@GeekPortland) October 29, 2014
And taking a selfie....
HAHA we cut in @PatrickRothfuss' signing line to take a selfie. :) Thank you Pat and @Powells for an awesome night <3 pic.twitter.com/ugLlwxT2Oc — The Doubleclicks (@TheDoubleclicks) October 29, 2014
It was an amazing evening. We got to meet his wonderful fans who were very nice to us, and we had an awesome time.
.@TheDoubleclicks You guys were awesome last night. Thanks so much for coming out to play with me....— Pat Rothfuss (@PatrickRothfuss) October 29, 2014
Life is weird, folks!