one lonely success

because my life is a never-ending-party, we went and saw death cab for cutie this week at the greek theatre. yes, i know, this makes two trips to the greek in the same week, but damn, it’s a nice venue and you only live once.

death cab was great, even if they felt out of place in a large amphitheater, and were lonely for the seattle scene. if you’re interested, there are blurry-out-of-focus concert pictures up on flickr.

oh yeah and “jesus’ favorite” was there too and that means that nearly 1/3 of socal’s greatest bloggers were in attendance.

just so that you wouldnt feel left out, i uploaded a playlist of the concert’s setlist to the iTunes Music Store. see! it’s just like being there with me!

damn i’m good to you…

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on friday night, we all drove down to the greek theatre in hollywood to watch ben harper & the innocent criminals. the fact that my birthday technically ended 24hrs prior meant nothing to me as I was still in full-on-celebration-mode. dont judge because this is a fully-acceptable thing to do when you’ve just turned 29 and are staring down the deep dark abyss that is your 30s.

the concert itself could not have been better. by my count this was roughly the 4th time i’ve seen ben harper in one form or another. the guys played for nearly 3 hours and even threw in a 2nd encore. best moment of the evening was when they returned for the final encore and ben says…

“…i’ve been told i play too long. but that is usually by the record company or a music critic and neither of them ever buy a ticket!”

as the final encore kept rolling ben came up for the last song and says…”ok this last song is gonna cost us $3500 so i hope you dig it.”

apparently, playing past 11pm at the greek theater (which is nestled in a residential hollywood neighborhood) gets one fined $3500. this of course only helped his image of “sticking it to the man” and everyone was ready to throw a buck into a jar on the way out to help pay the fine.

If you’re interested in the setlist, you can find it on the official site under the “on the road” section.

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Jeff Stonebraker: holy shit! they’re playing a video on mtv

Jeff Carter: wtf! a video!

Stonebraker: yeah it’s fucking weird

Jeff:i havent seen a video on mtv since ‘jeremy’ back in ‘94

Stonebraker: heh

Jeff: i’m blogging that

stonebraker: damn you’re desperate

jeff: fuck you

jeff: it’s my birthday week…celebreate ME beatch!

you know what i hate?

when you’re stumbling around at 7am all frantic because you slept in too late and you hop out of the shower and throw your towel on the bed in a desperate attempt to get dressed and out the door on time, but because you can only do so much out of one blood-shot eye you walk out the door completely oblivious to the fact that you’ve left your bed in harm’s way.

then you come home 14hrs later to find that your sleep palace is all gross and wet from towel-sweat and you’re forced to sleep on soggy sheets all fuck night.

god i hate that.

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