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Title: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: ~L on May 29, 2010, 06:00:55 PM
I'd like to start a Do-it-yourself zip code listener party option, so that one could meet and listen with local FOT at a nearby home or venue together.  Official FOT gatherings are few and far between, and most of us never get there for one reason or another. So, this could be the DIY alternative, certainly no substitute, but a humble, local alternative.
If you are interested, post your zip code/ or area here. Please mention if you are willing to host, or to find the local venue, or can suggest a place to listen in your area.
You may not want to host total FOT strangers in your own home, so maybe try to find an amenable local club, bar, restaurant, late night public library or train station with free Wi-Fi.

Let the sorting begin!

07040
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: fonpr on May 29, 2010, 06:44:05 PM
34652.  Get the party started!
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: dave from knoxville on May 29, 2010, 06:44:54 PM
I am terrified.

37920
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Keith Whitener on May 29, 2010, 07:07:07 PM
08901
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on May 29, 2010, 11:10:21 PM
47401
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: waltkellysghost on May 30, 2010, 02:38:34 AM
37206

I dress up in a possum costume and eat trash whenever I listen live to The Best Show.

The reasons why are between me and my holistic therapist.

I just hope you can be open minded enough to accept me for who I am.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: betheboy on May 30, 2010, 05:17:40 AM
90036 I have been lucky enough to meet a number of FOT in my area.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Sarah on May 30, 2010, 06:49:46 AM
04652
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: mackro on May 30, 2010, 06:32:36 PM
98117

though I'm in downtown Seattle when the show starts (5pm Pacific) as I'm leaving work. Unless I'm the only 9-to-5'er?
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: DoodleJump! on May 30, 2010, 06:41:14 PM
I'd rather not say exactly. But yeah, any listeners in Atl- let's have a listener party! For realz!
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Jason on June 02, 2010, 01:10:08 PM
07302
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on June 07, 2010, 04:11:51 PM
07040
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: dave from knoxville on June 07, 2010, 07:42:04 PM
We should average them all, and meet wherever that is
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: NJL on June 07, 2010, 08:11:53 PM
We should average them all, and meet wherever that is

Including one of the Atl zip codes, I got 34218, Bradenton Beach, Florida.  A 1.5 hour drive from New Port Richey.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Ojingeo on June 07, 2010, 10:13:46 PM
anyone in Denver? although I work on Tuesday nights right now :(


i would also like someone to host a double-feature Roadhouse Blues and Mr. Brooks party.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: mizzfair on June 07, 2010, 10:49:03 PM
87108 

I'll host if you don't mind pesky pets
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on June 07, 2010, 11:15:47 PM
We should average them all, and meet wherever that is

I'm going to guess that turns out to be in Ohio or Pennsylvania.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: ~L on June 11, 2010, 04:04:36 PM
WE HAVE A MATCH!  Two FOT listeners in the 07040 zip!


Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Jeff in Seattle on June 23, 2010, 01:27:40 PM
98117

though I'm in downtown Seattle when the show starts (5pm Pacific) as I'm leaving work. Unless I'm the only 9-to-5'er?

98103

Let's make it happen.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: put_it_away on June 25, 2010, 11:11:26 AM
I guarantee there are none of you near 24064.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Pastor Josh on June 25, 2010, 05:50:13 PM
62439.  Guess I'd better stock up on crudities before next Tuesday.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on June 25, 2010, 09:19:24 PM
62439.  Guess I'd better stock up on crudities before next Tuesday.

We could meet up in Linton, IN?
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on June 25, 2010, 09:23:25 PM
11238
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Pastor Josh on June 25, 2010, 10:14:34 PM
62439.  Guess I'd better stock up on crudities before next Tuesday.

We could meet up in Linton, IN?

Where's Linton?
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Steve Ell on June 26, 2010, 02:03:36 AM
There is indeed a Best Show listening party that takes place in Portland, Oregon (97215, I believe). It is glorious.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: yesno on June 26, 2010, 07:11:52 AM
22203
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on June 26, 2010, 05:44:12 PM
Check it out on mapquest!

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Linton&state=IN&country=US&latitude=39.034698&longitude=-87.165802&geocode=CITY (http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Linton&state=IN&country=US&latitude=39.034698&longitude=-87.165802&geocode=CITY)

62439.  Guess I'd better stock up on crudities before next Tuesday.

We could meet up in Linton, IN?

Where's Linton?
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Josh on June 29, 2010, 10:51:47 AM
47401

i'm in the IMU whats up
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Paul DePhiladelphia on June 30, 2010, 01:54:59 PM
19102
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Pastor Josh on July 01, 2010, 01:40:38 AM
Where were you all last night?  I sat here with trays of prosciutto, veggies, and vegan cheese for three hours, sobbing into my keg of Bass Two-Hearted Ale.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: GroverJefferson on July 14, 2010, 04:16:58 PM
We got a good number out back in April for an FOT meetup in Chapel Hill before the Ted Leo show.  If Triangle area folks were down for making occasional listener parties a thing, I'd be down for helping to plan.  Surely some local dive here would be willing to accommodate us for three hours on a Tuesday, yeah?

(And Pastor Josh, as a Michigander, I feel the need to correct you-- its Bell's Two Hearted Ale, though there is a fish on the label.  Nonetheless, an excellent beer selection- Bell's is definitely one of the top ten things that makes me proud to hail from the Great Lakes State).
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Pastor Josh on July 15, 2010, 11:57:17 AM
We got a good number out back in April for an FOT meetup in Chapel Hill before the Ted Leo show.  If Triangle area folks were down for making occasional listener parties a thing, I'd be down for helping to plan.  Surely some local dive here would be willing to accommodate us for three hours on a Tuesday, yeah?

(And Pastor Josh, as a Michigander, I feel the need to correct you-- its Bell's Two Hearted Ale, though there is a fish on the label.  Nonetheless, an excellent beer selection- Bell's is definitely one of the top ten things that makes me proud to hail from the Great Lakes State).

Thanks.  I so consistently make that mistake that I've given hope of ever getting it right.  Do you know if they changed their recipe, or did I just get something from a weird batch recently?  It wasn't bad, but it wasn't right.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: initramakdov on July 19, 2010, 08:35:09 PM
Texas? DFW area, 76086
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: TheMicroman on July 20, 2010, 09:38:09 PM
07866
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: fonpr on July 21, 2010, 12:08:01 AM
07866

 76086

Transposed?
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: davidgoeschatting on July 21, 2010, 11:27:08 AM
92831 (30m from L.A.)

Sounds as though one already happened backstage at UCB last night.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: cutout on August 16, 2010, 03:24:54 PM
10002
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: John M. on September 28, 2010, 06:17:05 PM
17043.
 Right outside of Harrisburg, PA. I have been curious about meeting other FOT in the area since I heard at least two thanked during the marathon.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Alex_from_the_woods on November 22, 2010, 03:35:39 PM
07825. Betting I'm all alone (sniffle)
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: Jason from Huntsville, AL on December 04, 2010, 08:26:15 PM
35803.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: fish on January 17, 2011, 08:46:20 PM
I find that listening with other people, even people who are familiar with the show, is pretty weird.  I'd imagine a long drive would work, but otherwise, I don't know what to look at.
Title: Re: DIY Best Show FOT Listener Parties
Post by: ShiftlessRastus on November 09, 2014, 05:04:36 PM
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