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EXTRA! Thoughts from Tour

2012-08-04 · story · Hank · 3:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Philosophy & meaning) · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, guest or collab, self promotion

Hank's reverse-chronological diary of a very quick tour with Harry and the Potters and Potter Puppet Pals (Missoula, Portland, Olympia, Seattle), closing with his thoughts: get out and live life, happiness has little to do with money, and the awesome per person is high.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Reverse-chronological tour diary, Seattle: waking at the Vera Project, the show, crowd surfing, Harry and the Potters, Kimya Dawson's presents, the 'best sandwich ever' argument, coffee, Dick's hamburgers, the E.T. theme

  • ★★★ Hank recounts his tour in reverse order: waking last Wednesday (1 August 2012) on the floor of the Vera Project in Seattle, back through shows in Olympia and Portland to his flight in from Missoula. — 00:00:00 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ At the Vera Project show Hank watched Harry and the Potters, played bass guitar and crowd-surfed; earlier Kimya Dawson gave him presents. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank says he ate 'the best sandwich ever' in Seattle (Paseo's, per the description). (playful) — 00:00:35
  • ★ Joe DeGeorge made the E.T. cornfield noise before a show, and Hank listened to Joe and Neil Cicierega interpret the E.T. theme. (playful) — 00:01:29

00:02:16 — Diary continues backwards: drive from Olympia with Andrew W.K., Olympia shows, corn dog and artesian well, sleeping at artist Nicole Georges's house, packing the van

  • ★★ In Olympia Hank played his own show and heard Harry and the Potters, then drove to Seattle listening to Andrew W.K. — 00:02:16
  • ★★ Hank slept at the house of artist Nicole Georges, who drew E.T. art on Paul and Joe's shirts. — 00:02:16

00:02:45 — Portland show and flight from Missoula; Hank's thoughts with perspective: live life, happiness and money, awesome per person

  • ★★★ Hank says the places went by too briefly to have thoughts, but with perspective he concludes that we all need to get out and live life as much as we can. — 00:02:45
  • ★★★ Hank says the amount of happiness we have has very little to do with the amount of money we have. — 00:02:45
  • ★★ Hank says the amount of awesome per person seems to be universally pretty high. (hedged) — 00:02:45

00:03:14 — Thanks to the people he met; sign-off; Mars Science Laboratory landing and SciShow live-tweeting plug

  • ★ Hank says it was a pleasure to meet the people he met that week and hopes those who came out had a good time. — 00:03:14
  • ★★ Hank says the Mars Science Laboratory lands this weekend, that he is extremely excited, and points to the SciShow video on its entry, descent and landing. — 00:03:14 · SciShow
  • ★★ Hank invites viewers to join him on Sunday night, when he will live-tweet the landing from the SciShow Twitter. — 00:03:14 · SciShow, Twitter

In the description and comments

  • ★★ The description calls the video the diary of a very quick three-day tour Hank took with Harry and the Potters and Potter Puppet Pals, who continue touring without him. — video description
  • ★★ The description says the tour show is really great and tickets, generally $10, are very worth it. — video description

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Mentioned

Central: Harry and the Potters

Also: People: Andrew W.K. · Joe DeGeorge · Kimya Dawson · Neil Cicierega · Nicole Georges · Paul DeGeorge

Projects: SciShow

Works: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Organizations: Dick's Drive-In · Twitter · Vera Project

Places: Missoula, Montana · Olympia, Washington · Portland, Oregon · Seattle

Events: Mars Science Laboratory

Only in the description or credits: Paseo · Potter Puppet Pals · Thoughts from Places

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