June 15, 2004

• …saturated in concerts…

  I saw Jason Mraz in concert at Zellerbach last night. He’s so totally cute! I love his voice, it’s absolutely amazing! His opening acts were Makana from Hawaii, an incredible guitarist, but needs to hone his song selection a little more, and this phenomenal guy named Raul Midon. So Raul is not only blind, but he’s got this totally WHOA voice that he can alter to sound like a trumpet at any given moment. Both acts were pretty good, but we were all impatiently waiting for Jason Mraz to come out. After more than an hour of waiting, he finally came out and didn’t necessarily blow me away like he did when I saw him at Slim’s last year. He spent most of the time doing scat and talking. He definitely performed less songs than he did at Slim’s, and Toca wasn’t even there! Ugh! I was frustrated because he didn’t perform that many songs, but it still took 3 hours for the whole concert. By the time the end of the night finally came, I was soooooo ready to bounce, partly because my bladder was about the size of a watermelon. It was ok overall though. I got to at least check out who was in the crowd and I must say that that was enjoyable. There was one guy in particular who totally caught my eye. I remember him from the API Issues Conference, and is a friend of a friend, but yeah, he was totally hott! I was sooooo melting! LOL.

  While I’m on the issue of concerts, I don’t think I ever described how my Madonna concerts went. Ok, so I was taking advantage of my connections with Ticketmaster to get tickets before they went on sale, but the Ticketmaster guy fucked up and bought my 2 $300 tickets for the Sunday night performance, then gave me my 4 $90 tickets on Tuesday. What a total fucktard! I didn’t think anything of it though and figured that it was ok and would make due. A couple of weeks before the concert though, one of my stupid jobs decides to have a mandatory meeting on the same day as my Madonna concert so that we can get prepped and ready for how to handle heated summer tourist season. Right, as if I haven’t gone through enough customer training to not know what to do. Anyhow, I was soooooo mad because I wasn’t going to get to go and I totally had great seats. Well, I guess someone up there likes me because something happened and the next thing I know, a friend of Josh’s can’t make it to her Sunday performance, so she decides to sell her $90 ticket to a friend of mine. After I get word of this, I ask him to switch dates and the next thing I know I’m going to Madonna on Sunday. I was totally jazzed that I was going to get to go, and I asked if I could leave work early that day so we could all leave early to beat any potential traffic down to San Jose. Things work out and they let me off early, but as I’m walking to the Pier 39 garage, I feel a big pelt on my shoulder. It felt like someone had thrown a bean bag at me so I turn around to see who it was. Then people around me begin to squeal and scream, “Ewwww, it got all over me too!” I was like, “WTF?!” I looked over my shoulder and there it was, in all it’s nasty green, yellow, and white glory was BIRD SHIT! SOOOOOO GROSS!!!! I had never been shat on before, and this one dropping apparently made up for the years that I had missed these deadly missiles of poo because that shit was BIG! Argh! Anyhow, I ran to our group services office and took my uniform off and just wore my undershirt, then headed home to wash it all out. On my way home, this stupid skater decides that he’s going to skate down a hill, which is fine, but it was MY green light. As I’m passing through the intersection, I see this skateboarder coming down from my right, and I’m like, OMG! Fortunately, he jumps off just in time and the skateboard goes underneath my car and this stupid asshole of a skater is rolling in the intersection. I was sooooo freaked out, but I was trying to maintain my composure and positive energy. I was not going to let anything ruin my date with Madonna and her hott dancers! Ok, so that was the main drama until we get to the venue. When we get there, Josh and Vicky go through just fine, but then when I had the lady my ticket to be scanned, it beeps back at me. I was like, OMG, WTF. Were these tickets fake?! So we ask what happened and they said that we were being relocated. The next thing I know, our $90 nose bleed seats turned into $300 seats on the FLOOR! To top it all off, the show was incredible, and yes, the dancers were HOTT as hell, especially the skinny spikey-haired white boi. He was moving his body in ways that I had no idea a white boi could move, lol. Either way, I had a BLAST, and it totally helped that I was in good company. Josh prepped me well for Madonna, and there were hott guys all around me, it was good times…

  So next on my list is…drum roll please…SARAH MCLACHLAN!!!!!!! I sooooo can’t believe she’s coming to the Greek! She hasn’t been on tour since Lilith Fair and I’ve been waiting soooooo long to see her. I can’t possibly begin to describe what this woman’s music has done for me. She’s an incredible musician and artist. Every one of her songs is so emotionally charged and resonates so well with me. She is my diva and I soooooo can’t wait until July 10th to see her!

  Other notable concerts I’ll be seeing this summer: 311 and the Roots, Norah Jones, Jack Johnson, Gipsy Kings, REM, etc. Yes, this will be a fun-filled summer–concerts, traveling, and best of all, NO SCHOOL!

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