Thursday, January 24, 2008

Rockin' Wednesday

So last night I went with 4 of my favorite people (Michael, Scott, Ben & Ty) to the Foo Fighters and my home away from home, the American Airlines Center. We get to our (awesome) seats just in time for Jimmy Eat World. The impressive thing about JEW is that they sound the same live as that do on CD. I've seen a ton of concerts and it's very disappointing when your "favorite" band or performer doesn't come off that great live. Not the case here. :)


So after they finished with "In the Middle," the lights came up and we realized that Dallas Stars Hockey Player, Antti Miettinen was sitting 2 rows behind us. Well it's no secret that I adore the Finns and finally got up the courage (with a slight bit of taunting from my fellow concert goers) to get my picture with him. He was very kind to do this. :) ...it was pretty cool that we had better seats than a pro athlete.
Then came the Foo Fighters! These boys know how to ROCK! The "in-your-face" numbers where everyone it on their feet and belting along are greatness.
But I have to be honest, I would love to see them play an all acoustic show. I could listen to that man (Dave Ghrol) sing "Everlong" all night long and be quite content. :) They had one of the funniest "fake" ending bits. They went off stage and after about a minute or so a you see Dave backstage on the big screens looking at the set list and shaking his head that it's not over yet. He holds up one finger, as if to say "one more" and everyone yells...then he's like that's not good enough and goes through 2 and ends with that there will be 3 more songs and the crowd goes wild.
They come on and finish the show. Greatness! The only complaint I have...wait TWO complaints I have is that the was no "Next Year" in the set list and that Ghrol boasted about how they were going to play for 2 1/2 hours...well they were off by about 45 mins.

All and all it was an excellent show...good times, good people. :)

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Here Goes Nothing...

So I've been meaning to do this for awhile now. I figure I have down time and therefore I should do something productive *or perhaps looks as though I'm doing something productive. ;) I love reading other people's blogs (for the most part) seeing what new creative projects they're working on or updates on their kiddos or wedding plans etc...Well I don't exactly have any of that going on, but have have realized I've been (and will be going to) a ton of places, seen a lot of things, done a lot of things, and always have something on the Concert Calendar. So that's what I will mainly post about. I hope to have at least one picture for each post but let's not get ahead of ourselves. :)