Save me, it's Christmas!

You gotta love Christmas shows, especially variety Christmas shows with Aimee Mann! I had purchased tickets back in October for her second annual Xmas show (last year's show didn't make it to Portland) and although I was expecting a normal concert was delighted when it turned out to be a surprising mix of traditional and original Christmas tunes, funny short films, stand up and guest singers, and concluded with everyone singing a finale. Very fun and never boring---Aimee even played a few of her non-holiday fare, including my favorite anthem "Save Me" (as a special Christmas bonus here's the live version and the star studded version here). Great show and third row seats, wootwoot!

While she was singing "Save Me" I remembered another Aimee Mann concert from a few years ago; as she sang the opening song I leaned over to the Roommate and whispered "I wish I were Aimee Mann" and without missing a beat he replied "I wish you were Aimee Mann, too". Nice, always full of compliments.

A feature of the show included three short funny films, all featuring Aimee trying to convince Hollywood celebrities to do her show with her. There's a portion where she's trying to ask Ben Stiller, who is behaving like the pompous ass he portrayed in that episode of "Extras" to perfection; as Aimee gives up and walks away, Stiller yells "Hey, in your show why don't you sing that song, the depressing one. Yeah." with a smirk, which is a scream and had to be ad libbed.
After the show we hung out at the bar for a couple cocktails and a plate of french fries and a couple of Aimee's band members showed up. I gave the cute bass player a thumbs up and he smiled and nodded back, so I guess you could say we partied with the band. At least that's what I'm saying when I retell the story.

And finally, since I'm being all holiday-generous, here's a bunch of bonus clips from last year's show. So get in the Christmas spirit, already and remember, Jesus is coming, look

busy.