Mi Vida Ocupada

It was at least 6 months ago that I bought super-sweet-seats to see Tom Petty in concert.  The show was last night and it was awesome!! Our seats were about 20-25 feet from the front corner of the stage…..some of the best seats we have ever had for a stadium concert.  Perfect place to take a million awesome photos, right?
Except i still don’t have my camera back from being repaired.
And the sweet camera I borrowed from my dad? The battery went dead and I didn’t have access to the charger.
Oh well. Ticks me off, but what can I do??

Time is flying too dang fast…….my first week of vacation is practically over and I still have so much to do and so many people to see!

I saw Sevendust (one of my favorite bands!) at Myth again on Wed. night.  I am not sure exactly how many times I have seen them live in the past 9 years, but I am guessing 15-20 times.  Love them!  I am lucky I was able to get into the club because once we got there I realized my stupid ass left my ID at HOME!!!!  I wasn’t that worried about it though because I know a couple of the bouncers and also the main door man.  Would you believe I didn’t see any of my "people" at the door and that it didn’t even matter?  The guy checking IDs didn’t even ask to see mine….he just asked me if I was 21….I was like "I wish! I’m 31!" And he let me in, not knowing I didn’t even have any ID on me.  I think this may be the first time that has ever happened at this club, seriously.  They are hard core.  I think this guy must’ve either been new or he thought I was cute. LOL.  I also smuggled my camera in and the camera police could’ve cared less.  Sweet!

I have not been feeling very good since the night of the show and I am not sure if I am getting a cold or if it is a sinus infection.  I tried to get a good night sleep last night because I was beyond exhausted, but I ended up not sleeping very well because the Sudafed I took before bed wouldn’t let my brain turn off.  I wouldn’t have been able to breathe without it, so I was screwed either way!

I am glad its Friday :)

Sunday night was probably the 4-5th time I have seen 311.  It was a pleasure to see them at Myth, they sounded awesome and it was a great time!

No camera police on patrol, so I snapped away :)

Now my knee hurts from dancing too much!

Fun time last night at Myth!
My best friends were also at this show (upstairs), but I watched the show up front on the floor…I like to be as close as I can! (When there isn’t a mosh pit involved, that is! I try to stay away from those).
The show was pretty awesome, but LOUD.  Much more loud than most of the shows we have seen at Myth.

I am going to pick up right where I left off in my previous post, but first I better mention that
I had only 4 hours of sleep last night and I have to work for 12 HOURS today since we have parent-teacher conferences after school  :( If there were ever a time to turn into a coffee-caffeine addict like the rest of the world, today would be it…..but that’ll never happen).

Okay, so I left the nature center at noon and hauled a$$ the 20+ miles or so to get to my afternoon school in time to eat leftovers for lunch, then proceeded as normal at 1pm with my afternoon schedule.  I was still freezing from spending all mornign outside in the wind!  After school instead of going to my math class on Campus, our professor had scheduled us to participate in "family math night" at an elementary school in Plymouth (northwest suburb), on the complete opposite side of the Cities from everything I know.  About 50 miles in the opposite direction from where I had been earlier in the day.  That went pretty well, the time flew by!  We were done at 6:30, giving us 45 minutes to grab a bite to eat and fly downtown Mpls to campus where most of us had our science class starting at 7:15.  I was starving at this point but  found a KFC near the exit to the freeway to get back to downtown.  I had about 4 bites of my sandwich, then realized it was too dang messy and dangerous to try to eat and drive at the same time, so I set the sandwich back in the basket with the fries they gave me.  I am cruising along until I came upon some stopped traffic rather suddenly.  I didn’t exactly slam on my brakes, but my entire dinner went flying onto the floor, all over the effin place.  Nice!!! Nothing to salvage :(
I made it to campus by 7pm, but needed to quickly change out of the longjohns I had under my jeans, ditch the heavy sweater, etc and change into something a little more appropriate for the rock show I was meeting friends at after class. I seriously changed and fixed my makeup and used my curling iron in the bathroom on campus for a quick fix! (Remember I had been wearing a hat all morning and had serious hat-hair).  I was in my seat by 7:15 and sat through class until our mid-break at 8:30. 

Flew down to Maplewood to the Rock and got there at 9pm, just in time to see Ankla performing on stage.  These guys are an amazing Latin-metal band.  Very tribal-sounding and heavy at the same time.  Good stuff!  So after Ankla played, I stayed at the Rock and actually hung out with the band most of the night. 

I made it home around 1am but was starving, so I threw in a pizza.  I had to check out all the pics I had taken that day and my e-mail, so that is how my long day ended and why I was still up blogging at 2am.  I even showered before going to bed.
Did I mention how bad today might suck to work 12 hours after getting just 4 hours of sleep? Oh well, Its Thursday!  I will get to sleep in all weekend and will try to catch up then!

If I have a coherent thought sometime today, I will post my TFT then :)

I cannot wait to get my ROCK ON tonight at Sevendust!!!!

I am sick of writing research papers!!  And lesson planning.  And Case Studies.  And reading journal articles and text books.  I have had the past two days off of work for the Professional Teacher Conferences and that is all I have done the whole time.  And I still have so much to do :(

I deserve a break and I can’t think of a better way to do it than a 7Dust show!!

Party people….meet me out there!!  $33 at the door

My friend Richie’s new band, Buried by Hope, had a show last night for Battle of The Bands at The Rock Nightclub.  Heather came out with me and we met Ang out there too.  I didn’t try too hard to get decent pics…I had a headache again :(

We are just so bad-ass.

PS I hate cigarette smoke.  I cannot wait for MN to go smoke-free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ETA: On May 16, 2007, Minnesota’s Governor, Tim Pawlenty, approved and signed the statewide smoke-free law known as the Freedom to Breathe Act. The law, which covers most indoor public places and places of employment, will go into effect October 1, 2007.

Prince!

Just to start off, it was a miserably hot day.  Hot, hot, hot and HUMID.  Apparently Prince’s show at Macy’s was off to a late start earlier that evening so despite the fact that it was hotter than hades out, Prince made security hold all the doors into the Target Center until 9pm (ticket said 8:30, doors at 7:30).  There were so damn many people in line that I assumed that rather than checking purses etc, they would just make everyone go through a metal detector on their way in.  While we were waiting I chickened out about sneaking my camera in and brought it back to the car parked in the nearby ramp.  Once we were inside and saw that I could easily have brought it in with me, I ran back to my car and grabbed it!  I took about 100 pictures, but these were the only ones worth a damn.

It was a pretty cool show, but it wasn’t the best one I have seen of his.  I guess I am a little spoiled because I have seen him so many times before and I usually have seats very close to the stage.  Our seats for this show were pretty good, but not nearly as intimate as other times I have seen him.  Don’t get me wrong, Prince was jammin and groovin for over 2 hours (10:04pm-12:14am), starting with "Purple Rain" and then "Take Me With You" and then guitar (which I have not heard too much of since his album doesn’t come out until next week).  Then he did Satisfied and covers of The Cars’, "Let’s" Go and the Beatles’ "Come Together".  It was pretty awesome that he had Wendy Melboin of the Revolution playing guitar for him.  Trying to remember which other songs he did…Raspberry Beret, Black Sweat, Cream, Seven, and then he always starts playing the beginnings of his hits but then will start playing something else.  Drives me crazy!!! Sheila E came out for his encore and they did a few of her songs together…that was my favorite part of the show.  Sheila E rocks!! She is an amazing looking woman for being somewhere close to 50?!

Okay, here is the official setlist

White suit
Purple rain
Take me with u wendy here
Guitar
Shhh
Musicology
Play that funky music
Let’s go by the cars
Satisfied
What a wonderful world renato & mike
purple suit
Acoustic set w/ wendy
Lil red corvette
Raspberry beret
The 1 u wanna c
Sometimes it snows in april
End of acoustic
7
Come together
Prince on keys
Do me
I wanna be your lover
How come u don’t call me anymore
Diamonds & pearls
End of piano set
Cream
U got the look
If i was your gf
Black sweat
Kiss
Lets go crazy
Love bizarre
Crazy–shelby
Nothing compares 2 u
Glamorous life
Sheila drum solo

Here is a video clip I took during "If I was your Girlfriend"

I have been reading on some of the Prince message boards that Prince didn’t start his after-show at First Ave until 2:45am and then the Minneapolis cops made them shut it down at 4am.  People were literally sweating their asses off in that place!! I wouldn’t doubt if that place spontaneously combusts one of these summer shows because it is sometimes the hottest place I have ever been to!

So that was Prince in a nutshell!

ETA: Hey Prince fans- show some love and leave a comment!! I have been getting many hits from many of you looking for pics and vids.

Any Pink Floyd fans here???

Last night I had the pleasure of attending one of the coolest concerts I’ve ever been to….Roger Waters of Pink Floyd performing a collection of his hits in the first set and then a full set of Dark Side of the Moon (encores included The Wall, Comfortably Numb).  Wow, totally awesome! I am sure nothing is as cool as seeing them in their full-production, but this came damn close!  It was a very expensive show, but one that I didn’t want to miss….opportunities like this may only come once in a lifetime!

Luckily for me there were no camera police at this show, so I was able to take as many pics as I wanted!  We had decent seats, but it was hard to get pictures from as far away as we were, especially since I wasn’t using the flash.  Most of these were pics fo the large video screen they had at the back of the stage.  Here is the album of all the pics I took at the show.

This picture was taken of an actual prism that was suspended from the ceiling with lights and rainbow laser lights coming from it.  Effin sweet!

It was pretty cool that the night of this show was an actual full-moon!  I took this pic from my deck when I got home late that night.

This is an amazing week of concerts for me….  I am  seeing The Police on Tuesday night and Prince this coming Saturday!