Some Dallas Woman Is a Really Big Fan of Tommy Tallarico

I took the current issue of Wired with me to lunch. Read about Bill Baker and his supertall buildings. (There’s no Dallas reference, but it’s still worth a read.) Then I got to the first copy break of this article, “Ode to Joystick.” It’s about concert promoters who’ve taken the music from old-school video games and turned them into symphonic pieces. One such promoter/creator/composer is Video Games Live’s Tommy Tallarico. He’s big-time in that scene. How big?

Video Games Live has been performed more than 40 times over the past two years, in venues as stuffy as Toronto’s Massey Hall, Rio de Janeiro’s Claro Hall, and London’s Royal Festival Hall. At every show, Tallarico says, he’s been met with the same unbridled, uncouth enthusiasm. (In Dallas this year, one fan asked him to autograph her breast. He complied.)

Fess up, Tallarico fan. I know you’re out there. By the way, Tallarico said Dallas was easily one of the Top Three cities to play in, with a special nod to the choir, in an interview around the time of the performance.