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Last night, GC & I celebrated my birthday, which was in February, by going out to eat at IHOP and watching the Blue Man Group. It's their How to Be a Megastar Tour 2.0, and, after watching attentively, I'm practicing to become a recognizable megastar. I've mastered the Head Bob and the One-Armed Fist Pump, but I keep getting hung up on Taking The Audience on a Jungian Journey Into the Collective Unconscious by Using the Shadow as a Metaphor for the Primal Self that Gets Repressed by the Modern Persona and also by Using an Underground Setting and Labyrinth Office Design to Represent Both the Depths of the Psyche and the Dungeon-Like Isolation of Our Increasingly Mechanistic Society that Prevents People from Finding Satisfying Work or Meaningful Connections with Others. It's the labyrinth office design that I can't quite capture, but no one ever said that becoming a megastar would be easy.

Prior to the show, I had only seen print ads and short tv clips of the Blue Man group, so I didn't really know what to expect. It was awesome! Somehow, even with baggy clothes and a blue face mask, they are so expressive. I liked the music, except for the vocals, and found my feet tapping and my head bobbing. The opening act, Mike Relm, was as good as (or even better than?) the Blue Man Group. He's an awesome DJ who mixed video sampling in with the music, coming up with hilarious Nacho Libre and Office Space (O Face) clips. My other favorite part of the show was Katrina, the little girl who sat in front of me. As soon as I sat down, she eyed my beer and asked what it was. Her mom and I told her it was adult juice. When she asked if it was good, I said no, that she wouldn't like it. She said she hadn't tried it yet, and kept eyeing it. I thought she'd try to sneak some during the show, but she was too enthralled by the Blue Man Group. She mastered the megastar talents of wiggling in a chair and raising the roof.

In hindsight, yesterday was the perfect opportunity to make another birthday cake for myself. I didn't miss out too much, though; my chocolate chip pancake dinner at IHOP and ice cream at the arena kept me on a sugar high all through the night. This was a great birthday present, and a great show. I don't know where you live, but if Blue Man Group is coming to your area, go see them.

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