RAWK = the strokes show
For those of you awaiting my review of The Strokes show with baited breath - did you doubt that I would say anything less than how much it RAAAAAWWKED!!!!!???!!Keep in mind, if you go to a show w/ me - I *WILL* have a good time. Well, that's not always true, but the ingredients that made this show fantastic, whipped up one hell of a great time.
Unfortunately (insert big huge grumpy smirk here) we missed Kings of Leon. And they had beards & mustaches!!!!!!!!! DAMNIT!!!! Rick had a class till 8, and yes we saw that the tickets said show at 7:30, but who the hell starts a show at 7:30!?!? Anyway, we're trying to forget that it happened... and we'll just have to see them play a smaller venue next time they pass through town - which will probably be better anyway, right?
So, on to the good part.... we got there just in time to get a drink, match up w/ Jem, Tania and even ran into Trevor & Dave, too. With no time to kill though we busted through the crowd as much as possible (it was totally packed!!) to get ourselves to atleast the 15 row. The show was at Bill Graham Civic, (which I've only been to for a Flash Forward event) so being in the 15th row, almost in the center was a feat to get to through the thousands of people.
The Strokes were excellent live... They absolutely ROCKED and it was AWESOME to be in a sea of Strokes fans. We were especially psyched to be so "in-the-know" on their new CD and be able to enjoy those songs to their fullest. They played a great mix of old and new - and the bands presence on stage was tight and totally rockstar :) The lead would disappear & sing from who knows where, but it was all still rockin so hard, nobody even really noticed. We were the "out of control, jumpin' up & down, SWEATING our asses off" crew, if you were there - you probably remembered seeing us, right?. The one's not sparing an *ounce* of fun - we're FULL FORCE baby!!!!
They made us beg for sooooooo long for the encore, which was great when it finally happened... especially cuz we'd worked our way up to 3rd or 4th row, dead center and ran into some other rabid fans that were just as psyched as we were. What are fans like us doing in the 15th row? duh!! Rick was trying to pull me up through the crowd to get closer the entire time, but we'd already encountered some serious attitude, so I just didn't want to push it. And literally that's what we'd of had to do cuz there was NO room. Anyway - the *one song* encore was rockin up there - but all 6,000+ of us could have used 3-5 more songs! They said this was the LAST encore they'd be doing on this tour cuz they hate doing them... so now we're supposta feel lucky I guess. :)
It all got out at around 11 or so, so we hit Victors (best. pizza. ever.) to share a slice and then the Hemlock for a drink. We ran into my friend Rob there & even a girl I know from H.S. who lives here now. I'd seen her a couple weeks before the reunion, so it was fun to see her again & tell her some stories. She keeps saying she's going to email me and then doesn't. Gotta love people who say one thing and do (or in this case, don't do) another.
Anyway, after that we called it a night. I actually got to sleep rather early lastnight, but still skipped working out this morning in exchange for sleep instead. I haven't been getting enough of it lately! Sleep is good.
