THREAD JACK...
I don't feel like starting another new thread for this, so I figured I'd just temporarily jack this one. I've justified it, since it's concert/music related.
So, my friend from high school was visiting me in NY on Thurs/Fri, and I must say, we had some serious good good luck going on Friday! She came in to go to an interview, and I could tell it was going to be a good day, since we had good train karma going first thing in the morning!
Her interview went great, and she got the position, including a possible job after she graduates and they'd pay for her grad school at NYU! Great way to start off the morning!!!
So, we head back downtown so she can change, and I popped on craigslist to see if there were any Gavin DeGraw tix for sale at face (since I was kind of interested in seeing the gig at the Roseland Ballroom. I saw GD at a benefit for Sh-K-Boom Records years ago, before he made it quasi-big, so I figured it'd be kind of cool to check him out again now. I have Chariot and like it; though I definitely prefer the Stipped version that came along w/ the CD...ANYWAY!) I saw someone selling 4 tix for face, sent her a quick email, and she called back right away. We were off to get the tix in Chelsea, good times! When we get there, it turns out neither of us had the exact change ($27) and as I was about the tell the woman to just keep the $30 ea. that we'd given her, she said, "Aw hell, just take them for $20." Woohoo!
It just seemed like everything was clicking. Good cheap food for lunch, kept hitting the trains, tix for a concert below face (in retrospect, since my friend seemed to be such a good luck charm, we probably should have tried the lotto for Avenue Q!!!)
Anyway, the concert was GA, and we figured we'd get there an hour before the doors opened. She was just in town for a day and a half, and it seemed stupid to camp out for hours to get a good spot. So, we ended up at the end of the line, about a block and a half away and began to resign ourselves to the fact that we'd have ****Ty spots, but at least we got cheap tix!
Once inside we had a grand ol' time making fun of the swoony girls w/ their I <3 Gavin shirts and watching the crew next to us get busted for drinking underage! Ahhh, the joys of watching teens squirm! I should note that I'm still 20 and shouldn't take such a high and mighty stance in mocking them, but really, when you're obviously not any older than 17, it's probably not the best to camp out in a group of 7 or 8, standing in plain view in an open spot on the edge of the floor, screaming at the top of your lungs how awesome it is that you scored some drinks. Either keep a low profile where you are, or blend into the crowd. That security guy was intense though! Too funny.
During the opening act, we decided to join the crowd on the floor (we'd been camping out on the couches on the edge, wiped out from all of our running around). And all of a sudden, my friend goes "Oh my GOD, I swear I just saw (we'll call him Skip Marsh, to protect the innocent
)" a guy we went to high school w/. I didn't see him at first, but good lord when I did, I was convinced it was him. I've seen people that I thought looked like someone I knew, but on a second glance, it's always like "nah, not even close!" This guy looked just like Skip Marsh! His face looked exactly the same. His posture was similar. He was wearing clothes that Skip would have worn. Gavin DeGraw was probably someone he would have liked. And the kicker, and quite possibly one of the funniest things I've heard (more from her delivery than anything else) was my friend shouting: "Oh my god! He's got hyperextended knees. Skip.Has.Hyperextended.Knees." So, we were totally convinced it was him. He even walked past us a couple times, and I swear he did that "Hmmm, do I know you" *starts to tentitively walk over, and then leaves again* Eventually, my friend stopped him and asked "Is your name Skip?" and he replied "No, but you can call me Skip if you want to." Hahaha. He totally must have thought it was such a pick-up line, but it totally wasn't. What the hell, we ended up getting free drinks out of it!!!
The concert was pretty good. I swear GD was totally pissed. You could really tell during the songs, but during his between song banter, he seemed a tad bit tipsy. It was really fun though. We were kind of under this overhead thing, and I think that kind of messed w/ the sound, but good times were had by all. Free drinks, decent music, fun swoony girls to mock! Ahhhh, a good night on so many levels!
Sorry this got long. I don't really don't expect anyone to actually read through the whole thing, but once I got going, I just couldn't stop!!!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
I'm going to be there around 4pm. 
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